Stuart Maslen

Career

Stuart Maslen is a human rights and humanitarian lawyer who has specialised in the use of conventional weapons in armed conflict. He holds a doctorate from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands, the thesis for which reviewed the legality of anti-personnel mines under international humanitarian law. In the past 12 years he has worked for a number of organisations, including the UN Centre for Human Rights, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), and Norwegian People’s Aid. He has conducted training in the legal and programmatic responses to landmines and explosive remnants of war (“mine action”) in some 30 countries.

Publications include

A Commentary of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, October 2005, 682 p.

Mine Action After Diana, Progress in the Struggle against Landmines, Landmine Action/Pluto Press, London, UK, May 2004, 201 p.

A Guide to the International Mine Action Standards, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, Geneva, Switzerland, February 2004, 119 p.

A Study of National Mine Action Legislation, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, Geneva, Switzerland, January 2004, 196 p.

A Guide to Mine Action, Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2003, 218 p.

Anti-Personnel Mines on the Battlefield under Humanitarian Law: A View from the Vanishing Point, Intersentia Publishers, Brussels, September 2001, 327 p.

The Banning of Anti-Personnel Landmines: The Work of the International Committee of the Red Cross 1955-1999, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, October 2000, 698 p. (Co-editor)

“Remnants of War: The Impact of Cluster Bombs and Landmines in Kosovo”, International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, August 2000, 42 p.

“Revolution not Evolution: Protecting the rights of children in armed conflict in the new millennium”, Development, Vol. 43 (No. 1), Society for International Development, March 2000, pp. 28-31. (Co-author)

“The Role of the International Committee of the Red Cross”, in Cameron, M.A. et al, (eds.), To Walk without Fear, The Global Movement to Ban Landmines, Oxford University Press, Toronto, 1998, pp. 80-98.

“The use of children as soldiers: The right to kill and be killed?”, The International Journal of Children’s Rights, No.6, Kluwer Law International, 1998, pp. 445-451.

The reintegration of war-affected youth: The case of Mozambique, International Labour Office, Geneva, August 1997, 59 p.

Promoting the right of torture survivors to reparation: What role for an International Criminal Court?, Redress Trust, London, July 1997, 54 p.

A Child Rights Guide to the Mines Protocol, UNICEF New York, May 1997, 37 p.

“Relevance of the Convention on the Rights of the Child to Children in Armed Conflict”, Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems, Journal of the University of Iowa College of Law, Vol. 6 No. 2 (Fall 1996), pp. 329-351.

“The international law protection of children from land-mines”, International Journal of Children’s Rights, the Netherlands, Vol. 4 No. 2 (1996), pp. 129-146.

“The Implications of the 1996 Land-mines Protocol for Refugees and the Internally Displaced”, International Journal of Refugee Law, Oxford University Press, Vol. 8 (1996), pp. 383-396.

Anti-personnel Mines: A Scourge on Children, UNICEF, May 1994, 44 p.