Nils Muižnieks

Nils Muižnieks Raymond ( born January 31, 1964 in Los Angeles, California) is a Latvian scientists and politicians. He was elected on 24 January 2012 as the third Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and follows Thomas Hammarberg. He exercises this office since April 1, 2012.

Education and Career

Muižnieks studied political science at the universities of Princeton and Berkeley. His doctoral thesis in 1993 was entitled The Baltic popular movements and the disintegration of the Soviet Union. From 1994 to 2002 he was Director of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights and Ethnic Studies.

Muižnieks held from 2002 to 2004 the office of the Latvian integration minister and was a member of the government. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Christian Democrat liberal conservative Latvijas Pirma Partija and on the electoral list of the European Parliament.

The politician is also director of the Advanced Social and Political Research Institute ( ASPRI ) at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia in Riga.

He was also a former Director of the Latvian Centre for Human Rights.

Family

Muižnieks ' parents left Latvia as refugees in 1944 and settled in 1950 in the USA over. He is married and has two daughters.

Publications

  • 2006: Latvian - Russian relations: domestic and international dimensions / editor Nils Muižnieks. ISBN 9984-802-10-8
  • 2007: Uncertain transformations - new domestic and international challenges: proceedings of the international conference, Riga, Nov. 9-11, 2006 = Neskaidrās transformācijas - jauni izaicinājumi Nacionālā un starptautiskā Limeni: starptautiskās konferences ziņojumi, Rīga, 2006 g 9. -11. novembris ISBN 9984-802-58-2
  • 2007: Nacionālo minoritāšu konvencija: diskriminācijas novēršana un identitātes saglabāšana Latvijā / [ Nils Muižnieks, vadītājs ]. ISBN 9984-802-78-7
  • 2008: Manufacturing enemy images?: Russian media portrayal of Latvia / ed Nils Muižnieks. ISBN 9984-825-88-4
  • 2008: Georgian Security: a Latvian perspective / Nils Muižnieks with a contribution by Rasma Karklins. ISBN 978-9984-825-19-9
  • 2010: How integrated is Latvian Society? : An audit of achievements, failures, and challenges / editor Nils Muižnieks. ISBN 978-9984-45-172-5
  • 2011: The geopolitics of history in Latvian - Russian relations / editor Nils Muižnieks. ISBN 978-9984-45-323-1
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