This project aims to organise a one-day workshop in Sydney and a one-day symposium in Tokyo to share Australian and Japanese perspectives on operationalising human rights norms in multilateral and UN-led peace missions. While Australia has a long and rich history of participating in peace missions, Japan's involvement in such missions is developing and likely to expand in the near future. Australia and Japan have already been collaborating operationally in several peace missions (Cambodia, Timor Leste, and now South Sudan). The key objective of this project is to ring together Australian and Japanese practitioners and academics with a view to analysing the particular challenges that arise in relation to the protection and promotion of human rights in peace operations. The workshop and the symposium are aimed at identifying applicable legal frameworks, examining the implementation of human rights protection in practice and sharing experiences in developing good practices. Papers presented at the workshops will be published in an edited volume and the project team will provide a bilingual (English/Japanese) report containing key findings and recommendations.
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Key dates: The Sydney workshop is scheduled for February and the Tokyo workshop for June 2016.

Total project value: $23,800

Australia-Japan Foundation grant: $18,700