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Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Armed Groups: How can this work in practice (and why should we bother?)

December 5, 2016 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Speaker(s): Dr Daragh Murray

Affiliation: University of Essex

Organised by: Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security Research Cluster

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Co-hosted by the Irish Centre for Human Rights and the Cluster on Conflict, Humanitarianism and Security

Daragh Murray is a lecturer at the Human Rights Centre & School of Law in the University of Essex. His research focuses on issues relating to the law of armed conflict, international human rights law, and non-State actors. He has recently published a manuscript with Hart publishing, examining the ‘Human Rights Obligations of Non-State Armed Groups’, and ‘Practitioner’s Guide to Human Rights Law in Armed Conflict’ – a book produced as part of an expert process spearheaded by Chatham House – will be published by OUP this November. He is currently involved with the Human Rights, Big Data & Technology project at the University of Essex, and his research focuses on the human rights implications of State and non-State surveillance practices. Daragh is a former IRCHSS Research Scholar, and has a PhD in Law from the University of Essex, an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the Irish Centre for Human Rights, and an MSc in Computer Security & Forensics from Dublin City University.