Kalliopi (Kelly) Stathopoulou
Contact Details
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Room: A36, Law and Social Sciences Building
Research Topic
African Intrastate Peace Agreements and Self-determination
The research has two primary objectives: firstly, to examine intrastate peace agreements through the ‘lens’ of international law. Secondly, to analyse the application of self-determination to intrastate peace agreements, including the role it plays in their drafting and implementation (post-conflict peacebuilding). The inquiry is limited to intrastate peace agreements, the legal status of which remains highly contested and unclear. The most controversial issues are their nature, being in the grey area where international law meets (pre)national law, the level of international involvement and its impact on the applicable law, and their content, including consistencies and inconsistencies in reflecting general principles of international law.
This study will provide a normative framework for the relationship between intrastate peace agreements and self-determination. The application of self-determination to intrastate peace agreements will be analysed both generally and through specific case-studies in the African Region. The African Region has been selected for its status as the ‘hot-bed of conflict’. The fact that the African Union (AU) has articulated its own policy and principles on post-conflict peace building has also been taken into account. The aim is to identify normative tensions at the vertical level [universal (UN)-regional (AU)-national)] and examine implementation and compliance issues, including the relationship and related tensions between self-determination and other principles of post-conflict peacebuilding at the horizontal level.
Research Poster
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Research Supervisors
Professor Nigel White & Professor Mary Footer
IKY (State Scholarships Foundation, Greece)
Academic Qualification
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Awarding Institution
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LLB
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National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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LLM Conflict and Security Law
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University of Utrecht and University of Sheffield
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2010-present Part-time tutor, Law of the EU module.
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2010-2011 Postgraduate teaching shadow, Understanding Law module.
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2009-2010 Research Assistant, Security and Human Rights Unit, Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham.
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2009 Research Assistant, Sheffield University Research Team.
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2008 Trainee Lawyer, Athens Bar-Greece.
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2006 Trainee, Greek Parliament.
-Durham Law School and the Durham Global Security Institute Conference, ‘Transitional Justice and Restorative Justice: Potentials, pitfalls and future’ St. John’s College, Durham, 16 September 2011- Of justice peace and democracy: transitional justice and institution building in Africa’.
-ILA British Branch Annual Conference 2011, ‘States, peoples and minorities: whither the nation in international law?’ Sheffield, 27-28 April 2011- ‘Self-determination, peacemaking and peacebuilding: recent trends in African intrastate peace agreements’.
-ILA British Branch, Pre-Conference Workshop, Sheffield, 26 April 2011- ‘African intrastate peace agreements and self-determination’, work in progress.
-HRLC Lunchtime Briefings 2010-2011, School of Law, University of Nottingham, 28 March 2011-‘African intrastate peace agreements and self-determination: mapping the relationship’.
-European Science Foundation (ESF) Research Conference ‘The Responsibility to Protect: from Principle to Practice’, Linkoping, Sweden, 8-12 June 2010- ‘Responsibility to Protect and positive peace: a blueprint for post-conflict peacebuilding?’
-SOAS/LSE International Law Colloquium, 16-17 January 2010- ‘Intrastate peace agreements and the application of self-determination in the African Region’.
-World Justice Project, Sheffield Workshop, 4-5 June 2009- ‘The rule of law and the security imperative in tackling terrorism-shaping the framework.’- presentation of Sheffield University Research Team findings on the ‘rendition’ of terrorists.
General Public International Law, Law of International Organisations, (including Peacekeeping and Post-Conflict Rebuilding), International and European Security Law, (including Arms Control), International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law, Transitional Justice and Human Rights, Law of the EU.
Memberships:
ILA British Branch (student associate)
ESIL (Interest Groups on Peace and Security, Feminism and International Law)
BIICL