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Thomas Conzelmann presents at EDRC Seminar
On Friday, 18 January 2019, Prof. Thomas Conzelmann presents key results from the PROM research projects at a conference by the OECD. The conference is organised as seminar where participants engage with the peer review procedure in the Economic and Development Review...
Open access to article published in Global Governance
Valentina Carraro and Hortense Jongen have successfully published their research paper in the academic journal Global Governance in October 2018. The research article 'Leaving the Doors Open or Keeping Them Closed? The Impact of Transparency on the Authority of Peer...
Successful PROM concluding conference
The PROM team held the concluding project workshop on 30 and 31 August 2018 in Brussels. We welcomed high-level speakers from the OECD, the OHCHR, the WTO, from diplomatic delegations at the seats of the international organizations we research, and from the...
Book writing under way
The PROM team is currently putting together a book-length study on the project and its results. We aim to publish the book with one of the major university presses. The working title of the study: Valentina Carraro / Thomas Conzelmann / Hortense Jongen (2019): Beyond...
PROM concluding conference 30/31 August 2018 Brussels
On 30 and 31 August 2018 PROM will hold its concluding conference under the title: Peer reviews among states: Towards effective global governance? The conference will be held at the Brussels Campus of Maastricht University. It will bring together a high-level group of...
Hortense Jongen starts postdoc position
As of 1 May 2018, Hortense Jongen has moved to the University of Gothenburg School of Global Studies where she is working as a postdoctoral researcher in a team led by Prof. Jan Aart Scholte. Hortense can still be reached under the Maastricht address; alternative...
Thomas Conzelmann presents at ISA
This year's Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, held from 5-8 April 2018 in San Francisco, CA saw two papers presented by the PROM team. One was the paper 'Fears of Peers? Explaining Peer and Public Shaming in Global Governance', the other...
Valentina Carraro starts postdoc position
Valentina Carraro has started her new research project at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna on 1 April 2018. She works on a project funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (Rubicon grant) to carry out a two-year research...
NWO Rubicon grant awarded to Valentina Carraro
Valentina Carraro has been awarded an NWO Rubicon grant to carry out a two-year research project entitled: “The More the Better? The Complementarity of Human Rights Reviewing Mechanisms in the United Nations”. The research will be performed at the Ludwig Boltzmann...
Paper accepted in ‘Global Governance’
Valentina Carraro and Hortense Jongen received confirmation that the prestigious journal 'Global Governance' will publish a research article by Valentina and Hortense in one of its upcoming issues. The full title of the article is 'Leaving the Doors Open or Keeping...
Hortense Jongen presents at UNCAC
Hortense Jongen has presented some of the findings of her PhD at the Seventh Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption. The event, which was organized by the Secretariats of the UNODC, the Council of Europe and...
Advancing Human Rights by Preventing Politicization? HRQ article
Valentina Carraro has published a research article in Human Rights Quarterly, one of the leading journals in the field. The full reference is: Carraro, V. "The United Nations Treaty Bodies and Universal Periodic Review: Advancing Human Rights by Preventing...