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Anja Mihr

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Anja Mihr, 2015

Anja Mihr (born 1969) is a German political scientist and human rights researcher. She works in the areas of Transitology, Transitional Justice, Cyber Justice, Climate Justice, Governance and Human Rights Regimes. She has taught in universities in Germany, the United States, Italy, China and the Netherlands and at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Her main work focuses on human rights, governance, and transitional justice, looking at the interlinkage between institutions, and organizations and the way human rights realization can be leveraged.

Mihr has served on international academic and NGO advisory committees on human rights. From 2002 to 2006 she was a member of the Executive Board of Amnesty International Germany.

Education

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Mihr graduated from Free University in Berlin. Her doctoral thesis on the Impact of Amnesty International's human rights work in the GDR (East Germany) during the period of the Cold War until 1989 was published in 2001.[citation needed]

Career

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Mihr is the founder and director of the Center on Governance through Human Rights at the Berlin Governance Platform.[1] From 2018-2023, Mihr was appointed DAAD Professor for Human Rights,[2] Democratization, Transitology, International Relations, Transitional Justice, at the OSCE Academy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Her recent works include studies on Glocal Governance. She is a political consultant and advisor on Transitional Justice, Cyber Justice,[3] and Climate Justice,[4] and has held various professorships in this field. She has been Professor for Public Policy at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at Erfurt University in Germany, and Associate Professor at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.[citation needed] She has been Head of Rule of Law at The Hague Institute for Global Justice.[citation needed]

Mihr was appointed as a member of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA) from 2018 -2023, and in 2023 she received the International Award in Human Rights in Higher Education by UCCHR.

Research

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In Mihr's 2017 (2019) book on 'Regime Consolidation and Transitional Justice', she develops a theory to explain the impact of Transitional Justice measures in the context of political regime consolidations. The core essence of this theory is to explain, how after a radical rupture or war, the new political system and its actors are able and willing to implement measures that allow political institutions and actors to democratically progress and increase their quality of democracy, or not.[citation needed]

In her works in glocal governance (Glocal Governance in the Anthropocene, 2022), Mihr develops an analytical framework to assess how local actors and institutions implement global and international norms in order to govern effectively, without the interference of state authorities or governments.

Publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Center on Governance through Human Rights". Governance-platform.org. Retrieved 17 July 2023.
  2. ^ Mihr, Anja (2021). ""Glocal" Governance in the OSCE Region: A Research Proposal". Between Peace and Conflict in the East and the West. pp. 287–297. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-77489-9_16. ISBN 978-3-030-77488-2.
  3. ^ "Policy Brief No. 1 - Cyber Justice - HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA". Governance-platform.org. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
  4. ^ "Policy Brief No. 2 - Climate Justice - HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform". Governance-platform.org. Retrieved 21 December 2017.
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