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Diana Amnéus Senior Researcher   Phone: +46 46 222 12 45 Fax: +46 46 222 12 22 E-mail: diana.amneus@rwi.lu.se

Diana Amnéus (LL.M. and LL.D. Stockholm University) is a Senior Researcher at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Right and Humanitarian Law since July 2009. She was previously at the Faculty of Law at Stockholm University, where she conducted her doctoral studies and taught in international law and human rights (2000-2009). She is a member of the Swedish Branch of the International Law Association, and the Board of the Swedish Association for International Humanitarian Law (SFIHR). She has also previous working experience from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs (1998-2000) where she worked with women's human rights and gender issues at the multilateral policy level in the UN and other international organizations. Amnéus furthermore worked with international law at the Swedish Red Cross and refugee determination at the UNCHR in Ankara during the year of 1997.

Research

Her research focus lies on peace and security issues such as the rules on the use of force, humanitarian intervention, human security, Responsibility to Protect, Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, women’s human rights, and sexual and gender-based violence under and after armed conflict.

Currently she is working on a post doc project on the deficiencies in the legal protection against sexual and gender-based violence under and after armed conflict, including a case study on national implementation in Liberia. The project is financed by a grant from the Swedish Research Council for 2009-2011.
Her doctoral dissertation with the title "Responsibility to Protect by Military Means – Emerging Norms on Humanitarian Intervention?" [ISBN 978-91-7155-735-3], was defended at Stockholm University in December 2008. It examines the customary process of humanitarian interventions in relation to the emerging norm on the Responsibility to Protect and possible ensuing modifications of jus ad bellum.
Amnéus was a visiting researcher at the Centre for International Relations at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Colombia, Canada, in 2005, where she conducted inter-disciplinary research on human security, the Responsibility to Protect and norm creation processes for her doctoral thesis.

Publications

Examples of research publications include: Amnéus, Responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide. A right to humanitarian intervention?, The Living History Forum (2008); Amnéus & Svanberg Torpman (Eds.), Peace and Security – Current Challenges to International Law (2004); Rethinking Security. Humanitarian Intervention in the Age of Human Security – A Responsibility to Protect? (2004); Amnéus & Gunner, (Eds.), Human Rights – From the frontiers of research (2003); Book Review: Beckman, Armed Intervention, NJIL Vol 77 (2008); Swedish State Practice 2004-2005: Responsibility to Protect, NJIL Vol 75 (2006); Responsibility to Protect – mäns skyldighet att skydda män? Gunner & Mellbourn (red), Mänskliga rättigheter och samhällets skyldigheter (2005).

Teaching

Amnéus has taught almost 10 years at Stockholm University within her fields of expertise at both introductory and specialized levels in public international law and human rights, and has been a visiting lecturer in Uppsala, Lund, and Örebro University, and the Swedish National Defence College. As Course Director she has been in charge of the following courses: The Responsibility to Protect Against Grave Crimes at the Faculty of Law, Uppsala University, Human rights in Sweden and Europe at the Human Rights Master Programme at the Faculty of Theology, Uppsala University, Women’s Human Rights and Human Rights, Terrorism and Security at the College of Theology, Stockholm. Amnéus also teaches human rights at the Swedish Police Academy at Växjö College, and on Resolution 1325 at the Swedish National Defence College and SWEDINT.

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