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Annelies Verstichel

AnneliesVerstichel

Biographical References

Born in Gent, 1977, married.

Education

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, Florence (Italy) Ph.D. Law Department (2001 – Ph.D. defence December 2007) Mauro Cappelletti Annual Prize 2008 for best comparative law doctoral thesis
Title of Research: Representation and Identity: The Right of Persons Belonging to Minorities to Effective Participation in Public Affairs: Content, Justification and Limits
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Bruno De Witte
Co-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Lemmens, KULeuven (Belgium)

COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL, New York (USA)
LL.M. (2000-2001) – Honorary Human Rights Fellow

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, Leuven (Belgium) Master in Laws (1995-2000) - Magna cum Laude
Exchange: ESADE, Barcelona (Spain) – Erasmus and Tempus Program (1999-2000)

KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN, Leuven (Belgium) Candidature in Philosophy (1997-1999) - Cum Laude

Summer Schools and Trainings

EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Needs Seminar, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa (Italy) International Election Observer Training Seminar (6-11 December 2005)

UN UNIVERSITY, INCORE (International Conflict Research), Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland Summer School (13-17 June 2005) - Certificate “EU Policies and Activities in Peace Building, Crisis Management and Resolution”

CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY, Budapest (Hungary) Summer School (1-12 July 2002) - Certificate “Ethnic Relations and Democratisation in Central and Eastern Europe”

Research

international human rights law: minority protection transitional justice conflict prevention and resolution equality principle comparative constitutional law: federal and autonomy arrangements electoral engineering equality principle legal and political philosophy: theories of representation multiculturalism diversity management, minority rights and security sector reform, (civilian and military) crisis management, EU human rights law and policy

Professional Experience

BELGIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, FOREIGN TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION, Brussels (since October 2009) Trainee Diplomat

INTERNATIONAL CIVILIAN OFFICE / EU SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE, Kosovo (March 2008-September 2009) Policy Adviser on Community Rights – EUSR Human Rights Focal Point Thematic Portfolio: Effective Participation Rights, Transitional Justice and Missing Persons, Security Sector Reform, Human Rights; Regional Portfolio: Peja/Peć; Teaching and Training

OSCE HIGH COMMISSIONER ON NATIONAL MINORITIES, The Hague (January 2006 – March 2008) Legal Officer Thematic Portfolio: effective participation rights (e.g., reserved seats in Parliament, minority consultative councils, employment in civil service, police, army, and judiciary) and kin-State involvement (e.g. Explanatory Note of the HCNM Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations); Regional Portfolio: Western Balkans (e.g., Constitution in Montenegro, UNOSEK negotiations and Kosovo Constitution, Law on Minority Councils in Serbia, Round Tables on Effective Participation in Croatia); Central Asia (e.g. Kazakhstan: electoral law; Kyrgyzstan: training Assembly of Peoples); Cooperation with other international organizations (e.g. UN: IEMI; Council of Europe: DH-MIN, ACFC, VC, CRML); Teaching and Training

EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE, Law Department, Florence (September 2001 – November 2005) Researcher

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, School of International and Public Affairs, NY (July – August 2005) Lecturer – course “Human Rights and Minority Protection”

EU NETWORK OF INDEPENDENT EXPERTS ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS (Aug. 2004 – Febr. 2005) Associated Expert – Thematic Commentary on the Protection of Minorities in the EU

COUNCIL OF EUROPE, Strasbourg (January-March 2004) Research Internship – Secretariat of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities

INSTITUTE OF HUMAN RIGHTS, Law Faculty, KUL, Leuven (Fall 2003 – Fall 2008) Scientific Collaborator – teaching and research - organization of conference "The FCNM: A Useful Pan-European Instrument?", Brussels, 5 May 2006, together with the Institutes of Constitutional Law and Human Rights of the Catholic University of Leuven and the Academy of European Law of Florence

CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF HUMAN RIGHTS, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York (May-August 2001) Researcher - Development Teaching Tool on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/mmt/udhr/)

PERMANENT REPRESENTATION OF BELGIUM TO THE UN, New York (January-March 2001) Externship – Sixth GA Committee, International Criminal Court Prep-Com negotiations

LOEFF, CLAEYS & VERBEKE (Allen & Overy), Brussels (Summer 1999) Internship – European Law Department

Teaching and Training Experience

EUROPEAN ACADEMY, Bolzano (22 June 2009) Master in European Integration and Regionalism, Module V (Minorities and Diversity)
Lecture: "Political participation rights in different national systems"

COUNCIL OF EUROPE, Pristina (February 2-5, 2009) Training Session on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities for the representatives of the Kosovo Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports (2 February) and of the Kosovo Ministry for Education, Science and Technology (4-5 February)

Sessions: “Efforts to promote, maintain and develop culture of national minorities and to preserve their identity and the effective participation of national minorities in cultural life”, “Overview of the selected provisions of the Framework Convention relating to the educational rights of persons belonging to national minorities” and “Education in/of minority languages and minority private schools”

EUROPEAN INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRATIZATION (EIUC), Venice (October 23-24, 2008) Masters of Human Rights and Democratization (E.MA. Programme)
Lectures: “International Minority Rights: Introduction”, “International Minority Rights: Instruments and Mechanisms”, and “Kosovo Case Study”

EUROPEAN ACADEMY, Bolzano (23 June 2008) Master in European Integration and Regionalism, Module V (Minorities and Diversity)
Lecture: "Political participation rights in different national systems"

CLINGENDAEL INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, The Hague (29 February 2008) Course for Indonesian Junior Diplomats
Lecture: “Minority Rights and the Right to Self-Determination”

ASSEMBLY OF PEOPLES OF KYRGYZSTAN, Bishkek (November 12-13, 2007) Workshop for Leaders of Minority NGO's "The Protection of National Minority Rights: International Standards, Kyrgyzstan Experiences"
Presentations: "The Linguistic Rights of Minorities: International Experience", "International Experience in the Area of the Participation of National Minorities in Public Life", and "The Use of National Minority Languages in Broadcasting: Principles and International Obligations"

EUROPEAN ACADEMY, Bolzano (June 13 and 18, 2007) Master in European Integration and Regionalism, Module V (Minorities and Diversity)
Lectures: “Charter of Paris. Recommendations of Oslo, Lund and The Hague" and "Minority Protection in Practice. The Office of OSCE High Commissioner";
Workshop: "Preventive Diplomacy: 'Early Warning' and 'Early Action'”
Lecture: "Political participation rights in different national systems"

OSCE OFFICE FOR DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS, Warsaw (2 March 2007) Human Dimension Course
Training: “National Minorities”

CLINGENDAEL INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, Den Haag (26 February 2007) Course for Indonesian Junior Diplomats
Lecture: “Minority Rights and the Right to Self-Determination”

EUROPEAN ACADEMY, Bolzano (14 June 2006) Master in European Integration and Regionalism, Module V
Lectures: “Charter of Paris. Recommendations of Oslo, Lund and The Hague" and "Minority Protection in Practice. The Office of OSCE High Commissioner";
Workshop: "Preventive Diplomacy: 'Early Warning' and 'Early Action'”

HUMAN RIGHTS INSTITUTE, National University of Ireland, Galway (12 June 2006) Summer School on Minority Rights
Lecture: “OSCE and Minority Rights”

OSCE ORGANISATION FOR DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS AND HUMAN RIGHTS (ODIHR), Warsaw
(9 June 2006)
Human Dimension Course
Training: “National Minorities”

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, SIPA, Summer Program, New York (July – August 2005) Lecturer – course “Human Rights and Minority Protection”

THE INTER-ETHNIC INITIATIVE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS (IEI) FOUNDATION - OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE, Sofia, Bulgarije (February 8-9, 2005) “Political Participation of Minorities: Realities and Challenges”
Paper Session 1: “Overview of Internationally Accepted Standards for Minority Political Participation”
Paper Session 5: “Access of Minorities to Public Administration”

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO, Trento, Italy Guest lecture in the course “Comparative Constitutional Law of Groups and Minorities” (30 November 2004) on the Belgian Federal System and its Accommodation of Linguistic Minorities

CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN, Leuven, Belgium Guest lectures in the course “Human Rights” (English and Dutch courses) (Fall 2003 and 2004)
- on the Equality Principle and Minority Protection
- on Minorities and Refugees
Guest lecture in the course “Issues of Political Institutions” (Dutch course) (Fall 2003) on Federalism and Minority Protection

Bibliography

Articles, Books and Book Chapters:

“A Reading of the Comprehensive Proposal for the Kosovo Status Settlement in light of the OSCE HCNM Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations”, in Francesco Palermo and Natalie Sabanadze (eds.), The OSCE HCNM Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations, Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (forthcoming)

“Understanding Participation and Representation of Minorities and the Issue of Citizenship”, in Marc Weller and Katherine Nobbs (eds.), Political Participation of Minorities: A Commentary on the OSCE Lund Recommendations on the Effective Participation of National Minorities in Public Life, Oxford, Oxford University Press (forthcoming)

“Representation and Identity: The Right of Persons Belonging to Minorities to Effective Participation in Public Affairs”, in European Yearbook of Minority Issues 2007/8, Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (forthcoming)

Participation, Representation and Identity: The Right of Persons Belonging to Minorities to Effective Participation in Public Affairs: Content, Justification and Limits, Antwerp, Intersentia, 2009

"OSCE Crisis Management and EU-OSCE Relations", in co-authorship with Vincent De Graaf, in Steven Blockmans (ed.), The European Union and International Crisis Management: Legal and Policy Aspects, The Hague, T.M.C. Asser Press, 2008, pp.255-276

"Special Measures to Promote Minority Representation in Elected Bodies: the Experience of the OSCE HCNM", in Commission for Democracy Through Law (Venice Commission) (ed.), The Participation of Minorities in Public Life, Science and Technique of Democracy No.45, Strasbourg, Council of Europe Publishing, 2008, pp.45-61

The FCNM: A Useful Pan-European Instrument?, with co-editors André Alen, Bruno De Witte and Paul Lemmens, Antwerpen, Intersentia, 2008

"The Personal Scope of Application of the FCNM: An Open, Inclusive and Dynamic Approach – the FCNM as a Living Instrument", in Annelies Verstichel, André Alen, Bruno De Witte, and Paul Lemmens (eds.), The FCNM: A Useful Pan-European Instrument?, Antwerpen, Intersentia, 2008, pp.127-157

"The Recommendations on Policing in Multi-Ethnic Societies", in co-authorship with Vincent De Graaf, in OSCE Yearbook 2006, Baden-Baden, Nomos, 2007, pp. 317-330

“Integrating the Roma in European Society: Time for a New Initiative”, in co-authorship with Olivier De Schutter, in European Yearbook of Minority Issues 2004/05, Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2006

“The Role of the Union in Integrating the Roma: Present and Possible Future”, in co-authorship with Olivier De Schutter, European Diversity and Autonomy Papers – EDAP 2005/2, Bolzano, Eurac Research, 2005, http://www.eurac.edu/documents/edap/2005_edap02.pdf

“European Union Accession to the European Convention of Human Rights”, in Paul Lemmens and Wouter Vandenhole (ed.), Protocol No.14 and the Reform of the European Court of Human Rights, Antwerpen, Intersentia, 2005, pp.123-144

“Recent Developments in the UN Human Rights Committee’s Approach to Minorities, with a Focus on Effective Participation”, in 12(1) International Journal on Minority and Group Rights, 2005, pp.25-41

“Elaborating a Catalogue of Best Practices of Effective Participation of National Minorities. Review of the Opinions of the Advisory Committee regarding Article 15 of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities”, in European Yearbook of Minority Issues 2002/3, Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2004, pp.165-195

Case Notes:

"E.H.R.M. 6 juli 2005 – Nachova t/ Bulgarije", in Rechtskundig Weekblad (2006) (Forthcoming)

"E.H.R.M. 17 februari 2004 – Gorzelik et al. t/ Polen", in 69(4) Rechtskundig Weekblad (2005), pp.157-159.

“Belgio: la Corte di cassazione conferma la sentenza che considera razzista il partido della destra nazionalista fiamminga (Vlaams Blok)”, Nota a sentenza, Corte di cassazione belga, sezione fiamminga, seconda camera, sentenza 9 novembre 2004, P040849N, 1 Diritto Pubblico Comparato ed Europeo (2005), pp.111-117

E.H.R.M. 13 februari 2003 - Refah Partisi t/ Turkije, in 68 Rechtskundig Weekblad (2004), pp.194-196

Book reviews:

"Book review of the Special Issue of the International Journal on Minority and Group Rights: ‘The Lund Recommendations of the Effective Participation of National Minorities in Public Life – Five years after and More Years Ahead'", in 2 Helsinki Monitor (2006), pp.195-198

“Book review of ‘Minorities in International Law’ by Gaetano Pentassuglia”, in 4(1) Ethnopolitics (2005), pp.125-126

“Book review of ‘Devising an Adequate System of Minority Protection. Individual Human Rights, Minority Rights and the Right to Self-Determination’ and ‘Minority Protection in Post-Apartheid South Africa’ by Kristin Henrard”, in 11(4) The Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law (2004), pp. 418-424

Conferences

LAUNCHING CONFERENCE OF THE HCNM RECOMMENDATIONS ON NATIONAL MINORITIES IN INTER-STATE RELATIONS, Bolzano/Bozen (2-3 October 2008)
Panel 3: The Recommendations and minority rights
Presentation: “The Comprehensive Proposal for the Kosovo Status Settlement and the HCNM Bolzano Recommendations”

EUROPEAN COMMISSION FOR DEMOCRACY THROUGH LAW (VENICE COMMISSION), in co-operation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia, the University of Zagreb and the University of Glasgow
UniDem Seminar: “The Participation of Minorities in Public Life”
Paper: "Special Measures to Promote Minority Representation in Elected Bodies: the Experience of the OSCE HCNM"
(18-19 mei 2007, Zagreb)

LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FÜR MENSCHENRECHTE, Wenen, Oostenrijk
AHRI/COST Action A28 Conference: "Human Rights, Peace and Security in EU Foreign Policy"
Presentation: “The OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities: Lessons to be Learned for EU Foreign Policy”
(8-9 september 2006)

KONINKLIJKE VLAAMSE ACADEMIE VAN BELGIE VOOR WETENSCHAPPEN EN KUNSTEN, Brussel, België
"The FCNM: A Useful Pan-European Instrument?"
Mede-organizator tezamen met de Instituten voor Staatsrecht en Rechten van de Mens van de KULeuven en the Academy of European Law van Firenze
Paper: "The Personal Scope of Application of the FCNM: An Open, Inclusive and Dynamic Approach – the FCNM as a Living Instrument"
(5 mei 2006)

KONINKLIJKE VLAAMSE ACADEMIE VAN BELGIE VOOR WETENSCHAPPEN EN KUNSTEN, Brussel, België
"Ethnic Mobilization in the New Europe"
Discussant van paper: "Gone with the Wind? Minority Rights in Central and Eastern Europe before and after EU Enlargement", gepresenteerd door Gwendolyn Sasse, LSE, London
(21-22 April 2006)

IRISH CENTRE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS, NUI Galway, Ierland
AHRI/COST Action A28 Conference “Past, Current and Future Policies of the EU in the Field of Human Rights, Peace and Security”
Paper: “The Necessity of a Review Clause of Consociational Arrangements in Peace Agreements: The Right of Minorities to Effective Participation versus the Risk of Institutionalising Ethnic Cleavages”
(30 sept. – 2 okt. 2005)

VERENIGING VOOR DE VERENIGDE NATIES, Vlaams Parlement, Brussel, België
“De VN en de bestrijding van geweld”
Presentatie: “Minderheden en geweld”
(22 oktober 2004)

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Cambridge, VS
“Incorporating Minorities in Europe: Nineteenth Century to the Present"
Paper: “Effective Participation of Minorities in Public Affairs: a Comparative Study of Belgium, Italy and Hungary”
(16-17 april 2004)

UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN AND VARTOV, Kopenhagen, Denemarken
“Constituting Communities – Political Solutions to Cultural Differences in Europe”
Paper: “Elaborating a Catalogue of Best Practices of Effective Participation of National Minorities. Review of the Opinions of the Advisory Committee regarding Article 15 of the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities”
(23-25 oktober 2003)

INTER-UNIVERSITY CENTER, Dubrovnik, Kroatië
“Law and Justice under Fire. Legal Lessons from the Yugoslav Wars”
Paper: “Minority Protection in International Human Rights Instruments and Regimes”
(15-20 juli 2002)

CECOB SPECIAL CONVENTION (ASN), Forlí, Italië
“Nationalism, Identity and Regional Co-operation: Compatibilities and Incompatibilities”
Paper: “Recent Evolutions to the UN Human Rights Committee’s Approach to Minorities and Political Participation”
(4-9 juni 2002)

FIFTH WORKSHOP ON NEW SCHOLARSHIP IN INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE LAW, EUI, Fiesole, Italië
“Le Droit ... c’est moi? International Law Under the New Empires”
Paper: “Participatory Rights for Minorities in International Human Rights Law” P(18-19 mei 2002)