Analysis of international instruments and of the role of international actors in the field of human and minority rights

The main objectives of this workpackage are threefold: firstly, to fine-tune the research team; secondly, to have a better understanding of the human rights and minority standards aiming at accommodating ethnic and cultural diversity in conflict-related contexts and thirdly, to analyse the interplay between the main European organisations in a conflict-related scenario.

Description of work

In the first 6 months, two studies will be conducted: one on basic international standards (ECHR, ICCPR, UDHR, FCNM, OSCE Documents), case-law of the ECtHR, HRC, and other treaty bodies, Recommendations of the ACFN and relevant literature, and one on the relationship between CoE, OSCE, EU and NATO, the role they play in accommodating cultural and ethnic diversity and the special task of the EU in this respect.

The above-mentioned studies will be carried out respectively by researcher(s) specialised in public international law and human rights, and researchers specialised in EU law. 

Excepted results

This Workpackage will lay down the basis for the development of the subsequent WPs, in particular WP 2, 3 and 4.

At the end of this Workpackage special emphasis will be given to new insight that the discussion around the role that the EU should play in the state-and-nation building process will produced.

WP 1 will result in producing two reports on following topics:

•          Human rights and minority standards linked to ethnic and cultural diversity
•          The interplay between CoE, OSCE, EU and NATO

Please note that these reports can be downloaded under "Project results".