The United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education and the Inclusion of National Minorities

Contents: Elena Ippoliti: Human Rights Education: Global Initiatives at the United Nations - Claudia Mahler/Anja Mihr/Reetta Toivanen: The UN Decade for Human Rights Education 1995-2004 and its Contribution to the Furtherance of the Rights of National Minorities in Europe - Paul Martin: Human Rights and the Academy - Audrey Osler: Human Rights Education and Education for Democratic Citizenship: Competing or Complimentary Agendas? - Carolyn Kissane: Turning Walls into Doors: Challenges and Opportunities for Human Rights Education - Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark: Education and Human Rights - Kind Intentions and Brutal Realities - Anja Mihr: The State, Politics and Human Rights Education During the UN Decade for Human Rights Education. The Case of Spain and Armenia - Sulev Valdmaa: Educating Citizens for Democracy - Changes in the Estonian Education System - Theresa Khorozyan: Democratic Reforms and Human Rights Education: Are the Education Reforms Directed to Shape New Democratic Political Culture in Armenia? - Reetta Toivanen: Sustainability of Human Rights and Minority Education - Theodore S. Orlin: Human Rights Law as a Paradigm for the Protection and Advancement of Minority Education in Europe - Inken Stern/Jana Luptáková: Human Rights Education and Roma in Slovakia - Claudia Mahler: Is Human Rights Education a Means of Supporting Minorities?

The Editors: Claudia Mahler (Dr. iur.) is Senior Researcher at the Human Rights Centre, University of Potsdam. She is a jurist and has worked as an assistant at the Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck, as Vice-President of the Human Rights Commission for Tirol and Vorarlberg, and as a lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin. Currently she is a consultant to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva.
Anja Mihr (Dr. phil.) is the Director of the European Master Programme in Human Rights and Democratisation, European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice. She is a political scientist and among others she worked as a researcher and lecturer at Humboldt University Berlin (2005-2006), Columbia University New York (2006) and at the UNESCO-Chair for Human Rights Education at the University of Magdeburg (2002-2004).
Reetta Toivanen (Dr. phil.) is currently a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism and at the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research, University of Helsinki. She is a social anthropologist and has previously worked as researcher at the Department for European Ethnology at Humboldt University Berlin (2004-2007), the Institute for Human Rights at Abo Akademi University (2001-2003), and at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University (2000-2001).