Gopal Krishna Siwakoti

Gopal Krishna Siwakoti, PhD, is a front-line human rights defender with more than two and half decade-long experience and expertise in the protection and promotion of human rights. He has undergone various professional training and schooling from different universities and institutes abroad on human rights, humanitarian law, peace and conflict transformation and election monitoring. He has accumulated vast practical knowledge on various dimensions of armed conflict, humanitarian law, transitional justice, forced conscription of children and forced migration during his academic as well as professional exposure. A well-known rights scholar and an author of dozens of reports and journals, he was invited as a short-term scholar at Oxford University-UK in 2003 and 2009 and has been honored as an invited guest lecturer in various universities abroad including Columbia University (New York), American University-Washington College of Law (Washington, D.C.), New School University (New York) Mahidol University (Bangkok), Sung Kong Hoe University (Seoul), Rhode Island University (US), Open Society Forum (Ulaanbaatar), Peoples SAARC (Colombo), Kathmandu School of Law's International Residential School and other international forums, including the United Nations specialized agencies. He has been involved in the peace process and election monitoring in a decade-long high intensity armed conflict in Nepal. A Member of the International Advisory Board of The Hague Appeal for Peace, he has been an integral part of the international community, and particularly to the UN system in addressing peace and transitional justice affairs. Other prominent areas of his expertise include development of electoral model in the post-conflict new constitution and ensuring justice to the victims of rights violations. Honored by Rhode Island University in 2010 as a Global Nonviolence Advocate and conferred as Personality of the Year by Shikhar Society-2008, he is also the recipient of Krishna-Nudup National Peace Award-2010. Patron of Amnesty International, he is the President of INHURED International which enjoys Special Consultative Status of the ECOSOC of the UN. Currently, he is serving as a chief trainer of EU/NEEDS and Asian Network for Free Election (ANFREL) on international election observation.

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