Chema Arraiza
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| Gender | Male |
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| Introduction | Jose María (Chema) Arraiza trabaja en Myanmar en un proyecto de acceso a documentos personales en beneficio de comunidades Karen y otros grupos. Antes, realizo un doctorado en Åbo Akademi (Turku, Finlandia ) sobre autonomia, diferencias linguisticas y minorias. Anteriormente, ha trabajado para organizaciones internacionales tratando con los conflictos, sus consecuencias y su prevencion durante los ultimos diez anyos. Esto incluye su trabajo como asesor legal del Alto Comisario sobre Minorias Nacionales de la OSCE (La Haya), centrado en derechos linguisticos, nacionalidad y participacion politica de minorias. Entre 1999 y 2008 trabajo para Naciones Unidas y la OSCE como administrador internacional, observador de derechos humanos y asesor legal en temas de propiedad, desplazamiento y retorno. En Kosovo, diseno iniciativas para proteger a las personas desplazadas y para regularizar asentamientos informales gitanos. Tambien ha co-operado con ONGs de apoyo al trabajador inmigrante en Espanya. Estudio el Master Europeo de Derechos Humanos (E.MA, Venecia) y un L.L.M. en Operaciones de Mantenimiento de Paz (Centro de Derechos Humanos de Irlanda, Galway). |
| Interests | José-María (Chema) Arraiza- (born 1973) works in Myanmar on a civil documents project targetting Karen communities. Previously, he conducted doctoral research for Åbo Akademi (Finland) on minorities and indigenous peoples. In the past, he has worked for international organisations dealing with the consequences of conflict and its prevention for the last ten years. These included the Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities, focusing on language rights and citizenship issues and the UN in East Timor and Kosovo. In Kosovo, he designed initiatives to protect displaced persons and to regularize Roma settlements (e.g., “You are displaced: your rights are not” (2008)). He cooperates with NGOs dealing with migrants, (Association for Solidarity with the Migrant Workers, Spain). He holds a European Master Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation, an L.L.M. in Peace Support Operations (Irish Center for Human Rights). Recent publications: "Calibrating Cultural Lenses: Socio-Economic Participation, Identity and Migration Policy Shifts" (2013), "A Lesson to the West, The Human Rights Legitimacy of the Arab Spring Protesters" (2012), "Squaring Indigenous Circles: The Making of the Communal Property Regime of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua", “Getting the Property Questions Right: Legal Policy Decisions in Property Restitution in Kosovo (1999-2009)”, 21:3 International Journal of Refugee Law: 421–452, 2009 (together with Massimo Moratti), “Displaced Kosovo Roma and Property Rights in Montenegro”, 32 Forced Migration, 2009 (co-authored with Linda Öhman); “Blueprints for Babel: legislative options for minorities and indigenous peoples”, (17:1 European Journal of Public Law (2011) 111–138). ------ |