Andrew Forde
About/Bio
Dr Andrew Forde is Assistant Professor (Law) at the School of Law and Government at Dublin City University, and Commissioner on the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (IHREC). He is the author of 'European Human Rights Grey Zones - The Council of Europe and Areas of Conflict' (Cambridge University Press, 2024) and co-author of 'Russia, the Council of Europe and the European Convention on Human Rights - A Troubled Membership and Its Legacy' (forthcoming Bristol University Press, 2025). He worked for more than 10 years with the Council of Europe and the OSCE, much of which was spent focused on human rights protection in conflict and post-conflict regions.
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Alain Berset: The 15th Secretary General of the Council of Europe – A New Impetus for Human Rights in Europe?
September 23, 2024
Andrew Forde
On 18 September 2024, Alain Berset assumed the position of Secretary General of the Council of Europe (CoE), Europe’s oldest intergovernmental organisation representing 46 member states, for a five-year mandate. He was elected by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on 25 June in the second round of voting having secured 114 votes from…
Summit of Fire and Ice 4th: Council of Europe Summit, Reykjavík
May 31, 2023
Andrew Forde
Iceland is known as “the land of fire and ice.” Its dramatic volcanoes are constantly and rapidly shaping a new complexion in the north-west European island state, whilst its seemingly unchanging glaciers slowly and stubbornly carve through the landscape. Fire and ice are words that also come to mind when one reflects on the historic…
Setting the Cat amongst Pigeons: Kosovo’s Application for Membership of the Council of Europe
May 17, 2022
Andrew Forde
Kosovo is one of the few places in Europe not party to the European Convention on Human Rights due to a legacy conflict with Serbia. Kosovo declared independence in 2008 after a bloody war followed by a period of international administration, but this is strongly disputed by Serbia which claims exclusive sovereignty over the entire territory. The conflict…
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Setting the Cat amongst Pigeons: Kosovo’s Application for Membership of the Council of Europe
May 17, 2022
Andrew Forde
Kosovo is one of the few places in Europe not party to the European Convention on Human Rights due to a legacy conflict with Serbia. Kosovo declared independence in 2008 after a bloody war followed by a period of international administration, but this is strongly disputed by Serbia which claims exclusive sovereignty over the entire territory. The conflict…
Summit of Fire and Ice 4th: Council of Europe Summit, Reykjavík
May 31, 2023
Andrew Forde
Iceland is known as “the land of fire and ice.” Its dramatic volcanoes are constantly and rapidly shaping a new complexion in the north-west European island state, whilst its seemingly unchanging glaciers slowly and stubbornly carve through the landscape. Fire and ice are words that also come to mind when one reflects on the historic…
Europe’s Kairos? The Role of the Council of Europe under a Negotiated Peace in Ukraine
April 13, 2022
Andrew Forde
In a seminal speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in 1954, Germany’s Federal Chancellor and Chairman of the Committee of Ministers, Konrad Adenauer, exhorted member states to respond to matters of common concern with courage and confidence, and insisted that ‘any weakening in our zeal, in our striving to fulfil what we have…