Accessing and Implementing Human Rights and Justice

Kurt Mills is Professor of International Relations and Human Rights at the University of Dundee. He is Vice-Chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System and past Vice-President of the International Studies Association. His research and teaching focus on human rights, humanitarianism, international criminal justice, and the responsibility to protect, with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa. He is the author of International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Responsibility to Protect, Prosecute, and Palliate (University of Pennsylvania Press) and Human Rights in the Emerging Global Order: A New Sovereignty (Macmillan), and co-editor of Human Rights Protection in Global Politics: Responsibilities of States and Non-State Actors (Palgrave) and Moral Victories: The Ethics of Winning Wars (Oxford). He has published numerous peer reviewed articles and chapters in edited volumes.

Melissa Labonte is Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University. Her research and teaching interests include the human rights, humanitarian politics, peacebuilding, multilateral peace operations, conflict resolution, and West African politics. She is the author of Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms, Strategic Framing, and Intervention: Lessons for the Responsibility to Protect (London: Routledge, 2013) and co-author (with Brendan Cahill, Fordham University) of Inter Arma Caritas: Contemporary Humanitarian Studies and Action (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2018). Her research has appeared in leading international relations journals, including African Affairs; Disasters; Global Governance; International Journal of Human Rights; International Studies Perspectives; and Third World Quarterly.