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UNODC consultancy study published
The consultancy study written by Thomas Conzelmann for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has been published. It carries the title "Lessons learned from other review mechanisms on their operation and transition to a next phase". The paper reviews the...
Thomas Conzelmann advises UNODC
Thomas Conzelmann has assumed a consultancy position for the Implementation Review Mechanism (IRM) of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC). He is tasked with contributing an advisory paper about possible changes to the mechanism once this peer...
New chapter on OECD peer reviews to appear in September 2023
Another PROM publication is in the pipeline, this time dealing with peer reviews in the OECD. Beyond the cases of the Economic and Development Review Committee and the Working Group on Bribery covered in the main project, the chapter also looks at the OECD’s...
New article by Thomas Conzelmann on EU rule of law peer review
As PROM moves on to new ventures, Thomas has started to look at another peer review not covered in the original project design. This is the EU’s recently installed rule of law peer review. It reviews the compliance of all EU member states with rule of law standards...
UN FACTI panel report published, PROM researchers contribute
The UN FACTI panel report has been published earlier this week. Valentina Carraro and Hortense Jongen were invited to contribute to the report with an independent expert advice. The report, as adopted by a high-level UN panel, deals with improving global financial...
Valentina Carraro starts at Leiden University
Valentina Carraro has started a new position at the University of Leiden. She is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) and the Institute of Political Science, and Deputy Coordinator of the Global Transformations and Governance...
Valentina Carraro and Hortense Jongen advise UN FACTI panel
At the request of High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda Financing for Sustainable Development (FACTI), Valentina Carraro, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Groningen,...
Hortense Jongen starts at VU Amsterdam
After concluding a postdoctoral position at the University of Gothenburg, Dr Hortense Jongen has assumed a position as Assistant Professor of International Relations at the VU Amsterdam. Her contact details can be retrieved here.
International Studies Quarterly publishes article on Human Rights Compliance
The prestigious Journal International Studies Quarterly has published the article “Promoting Compliance with Human Rights” by Valentina Carraro open access. In this article Carraro compares the Performance of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review and Treaty...
Hortense Jongen receives UM Dissertation Award
Each year, Maastricht University awards a prize for the best dissertation defended. This year,Hortense Jongen was chosen among five other nominees and awarded with the UM Dissertation Award 2018. We are very proud that Hortense received this prestigious UM prize, also...
New publication in ‘European Journal of International Relations’
The European Journal of International Relations accepted the article ‘Electing the Experts: Expertis and independence in the UN Human Rights treaty bodies’ by Valentina Carraro. The paper studies the formal and informal processes leading to the appointment of expert...
Open access article published in ‘Cooperation and Conflict’
Cooperation and Conflict now includes open to our article ‘Fears of peers? Explaining peer and public shaming in global governance‘. The paper contributes to the academic literature by looking more deeply at what is truly striking about peer reviews among states: Why...