Anja Mihr is a German political scientist and human rights researcher. Her working areas are in Transitional Justice, Cyber Justice, Climate Justice, Governance and Human Rights Regimes. She is an internationally known academic has taught in various Universities in Germany, the United States, Italy, China and the Netherlands. Her main work focuses on human rights, governance and transitional justice, looking at the interlinkage between institutions, organizations and the way human rights realization can be leveraged. Anja Mihr has also served in various international academic and NGO advisory committees on human rights and from 2002–2006 she was member of the Executive Board of Amnesty International Germany.
Career
Anja Mihr is founder and director of the Center on Governance through Human Rights at the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform in Berlin. in Berlin. She is a political consultant and advisor on Transitional Justice, Cyber Justice, and Climate Justice, and has held various professorships in this field. She has been Professor for Public Policy at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy at Erfurt University in Germany, and Associate Professor at the Netherlands Institute of Human Rights at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She has held numerous other positions at think tanks, such as Head of Rule of Law at The Hague Institute for Global Justice and at internationally known academic institutions such as Peking University in Beijing, the European Inter-University Center for Human Rights and Democratization in Venice, Columbia University in New York or Humboldt University in Berlin. Mihr's interdisciplinary background has focused on combining concepts of social sciences and international human rights law in her research and publications. She graduated from Free University in Berlin. Her doctoral thesis on the Impact of Amnesty International's human rights work in the GDR during the period of the Cold War until 1989 was published in 2001.
Publications
Cyber Justice, Human Rights and Good Governance for the Internet, Springer Briefs in Political Science, 2017
Manou/Baldwin/Cubie/Mihr/Thorp: Climate Change, Migration and Human Rights, Law and Policy Perspectives, Routledge Studies in Environmental Migration, Displacement and Resettlement, Routlegde, Francis & Taylor, 2017
Mihr/Pickel/Pickel: Handbuch Transitional Justice, VS-Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, 2017
Mihr/Gibney: Handbook of Human Rights, 2 vol. SAGE Publication, London et al., 2014
The SAGE Handbook of Human Rights 2014
Amnesty International, die Menschenrechte und der KSZE-Prozess, in Peter/ Wentker., Die KSZE im Ost-West-Konflikt, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2012 pp. 233–248
Transitional Justice and the Quality of Democracy – From Democratic Institution Building to Reconciliation, in: Anja Mihr Transitional Justice: Between Criminal Justice, Atonement and Democracy, SIM Special No. 37, Utrecht University, 2012, pp. 11–50
The Impact of Amnesty International's Policies and Campaigns During the Cold War – the Case Study of East Germany, in: Wilco de Jonge, Brianne McGonigle-Leyh, Anja Mihr and Lars van Troost, 50 Years of Amnesty International, Reflections and Perspectives, SIM Special 36, University of Utrecht, 2011, pp. 21–50.
Human Rights in the 21st Century; Continuity and Change since 9/11 , Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Human Rights Awareness, Education and Democratization: The challenge for the 21st Century, in: Journal of Human Rights, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2009, Routledge, Francis & Taylor Group, London, pp. 177–189.
Amnesty International in der DDR, Der Einsatz für Menschenrechte im Visier der Stasi, Chrs. Links Verlag, Berlin, 2002.
Studies and reviews
The Glasshouse of the Cyberworld, The Indian Economist, India, July 2016
NGOs in Conflict Transition, for The Global South Unit for Mediation, Brazil, July 2016
Die schwierige Aufarbeitung von Menschenrechtsverletzung, Feature and Interview in German Broadcast February 2016
Rule of Law, security and transitional justice in fragile and conflict affected states, Background Papers, Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance, The Hague Institute for Global Justice & Stimson Institute, Washington DC August 2015
The misunderstanding: Human rights are recognized equally in Europe and Asia – but implemented differently. An essay. March 2013.
Transitional Justice and the Quality of Democracy – From Democratic Institution Building to Reconciliation, 2013
Human Rights Benchmarks for EU's External Policy, DROI, European Parliament, Directorate-General for External Policies, Political Department, 2011, EXPO/B/DROI/2011/15
