MPCT-305 Peace, human rights and international law
Asbjørn Eide

Time/place:
Apr. 28, 9.15-15, C-1007
Apr. 29, 8.15-10, 12.15-16, C-1006
Apr. 30, 9.15-14, C-1006

1. General introduction to international human rights as part of international law (3 hours)
Material: Asbjørn Eide: Making Human Rights Universal: Achievements and Prospects. 48 pages.
In: Stokke and Tostenson: Human Rights in Development, yearbook 1999/2000, the Millenium Edition). Kluwer Law International (copies will be made available)

2. Universalisation of human rights versus economic globalisation (2 hours)
Material: Asbjørn Eide: 'Making Human Rights Universal in the Age of Economic Globalisation' (in von Schorlemer: Praxis-Handbuch UNO, 2002, 24 pages, copies of article will be made available, plus excerpts from Steiner and Alston, 52 pages, copies will be made available)

3. Human rights of minorities and indigenous peoples; ethnic conflict resolution; self-determination versus integration from a human rights
perspective (7 hours)
Material: Asbjørn Eide: Peaceful and constructive resolution of situations involving minoities. United Nations University Press, 1995, 145 pages plus additional handouts. Shall try to get the book from Tokyo if they still have it (will cost some 100 NOK per copy), otherwise it can be photocopied.