Walter Kälin
Biography:
Prof. Walter Kälin (professor of constitutional and international public law, University Bern) has extensively dealt with questions of international human right law and legal aspects of armed conflicts as well as legal aspects of the judiciary. He is also working as an UN-expert (as Representative of the UN Secretary on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons) in different conflict zones (including East-Congo and other countries in the region where he identified impunity as one of the obstacles to the end of violence).
Bibliography:
* 2009. The Law of International Human Rights Protection (together with Jörg Künzli, Oxford University Press) * 2009/10. (as rapporteur of the group of experts). Combined report of seven thematic special procedures on technical assistance to the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and urgent examination of the situation in the east of the country, UN Human Rights Council, Doc. A/HRC/10/59, 2 March 2009. Combined report of seven thematic special procedures on technical assistance to the Government of the Democratic Republic of Congo and urgent examination of the situation in the east of the country, UN Human Rights Council, Doc. A/HRC/13/**, ** March 2010. * 2008. Promotion et protection de tous les droits de l'homme, civils, politiques, économiques, sociaux et culturels, y compris le droit au développement, Rapport soumis par le Représentant du Secrétraire général pour les droits de l'homme des personnes déplacées dans leur propre pays, Walter Kälin, Additif , Mission en République démocratique du Congo, Conseil des Droits de l'Homme, doc. A (HRC/8/6/Add. 3, 16 Mai 2008. * 2004. Decentralized Governance in Fragmented Societies: Solution or Cause of New Evils ?, in: Wimmer, Andreas / Goldstone Richard / Horowitz, Donald / Joras, Ulrike / Schetter, Conrad (Eds.), Facing Ethnic Conflict - Towards a New Realism, Lanham/Boulder/ York/ Toronto/Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004, 301 - 311. * 2001. (zusammen mit Erika Schlaeppi). Schweizerische Aussenwirtschaftspolitik und Menschenrechtspolitik - Konflikte und Konvergenzen. Ruegger, Zürich.
