Valentina Carraro
Assistant Professor in Global Transformations and Governance Challenges
- Name
- Dr. V. Carraro
- Telephone
- +31 70 800 9506
- v.carraro@fgga.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4739-3281
Dr. Valentina Carraro is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), within the Diplomacy and Global Affairs (DGA) research group. Her research interests include global and regional human rights governance, the fight against torture and other forms of violence, state compliance with international law, and the use of expertise in public bodies. She holds a PhD in International Relations from Maastricht University (2017).
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Valentina Carraro on peer review in financial integrity matters
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Dr. Valentina Carraro is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), within the Diplomacy and Global Affairs (DGA) research group. Her research interests include global and regional human rights governance, the fight against torture and other forms of violence, state compliance with international law, and the use of expertise in public bodies. She holds a PhD in International Relations from Maastricht University (2017).
Before joining Leiden University in February 2021, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Human Rights in Vienna and at Maastricht University, and she held teaching positions at the University of Groningen and VU Amsterdam. She has also been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, the University of Edinburgh, and the University of Amsterdam.
PhD supervision
Valentina Carraro is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
• Human rights
• International organisations
• New actors in global governance
Assistant Professor in Global Transformations and Governance Challenges
- Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Institute of Security and Global Affairs
- Carraro V. (2024), The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on violations of the right to integrity of the person, Journal of International Humanitarian Action 9(5): 1-11.
- Carraro V. (2024), Strengthening the Human Rights Council and the Treaty Body System. In: Kornprobst M. & Redo S. (Eds.), Reinvigorating the United Nations: Routledge. 114-130.
- Carraro V. (2023), Cooperation Between Human Rights Bodies. In: Ruiz Fabri H. (Ed.), Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law: Oxford University Press.
- Lacatus C. & Carraro V. (2023), National human rights institutions: independent actors in global human rights governance?, International Affairs 99(3): 1167–1189.
- Carraro V. (2022), The more the better? The complementarity of United Nations Institutions in the fight against torture, Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights : .
- Carraro V. & Jongen H. (2020), Background paper on peer review in financial integrity matters. New York: United Nations High-Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda (FACTI Panel).
- Carraro V. (2019), Electing the experts: expertise and independence in the UN human rights treaty bodies, European Journal of International Relations 25(3): 826-851.
- Carraro V., Conzelmann T. & Jongen H. (2019), Fears of peers? : Explaining peer and public shaming in global governance, Cooperation and Conflict 54(3): 335-355.
- Carraro V. (2019), Promoting compliance with human rights : the performance of the United Nations' universal periodic review and treaty bodies, International Studies Quarterly 63(4): 1079-1093.
- Carraro V. & Jongen H. (2018), Leaving the doors open or keeping them closed? : The impact of transparency on the authority of peer reviews in international organizations, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations 24(4): 615-635.
- Carraro V. (2017), The United Nations treaty bodies and universal periodic review: advancing human rights by preventing politicization?, Human Rights Quarterly 39(4): 943-970.
- Carraro V. (20 October 2017), A double-edged sword: the effects of politicization on the authority of the UN Universal Periodic Review and Treaty Bodies (Dissertatie. Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Maastricht University): Universitaire Pers Maastricht. Supervisor(s): Conzelmann T. & Vanhoonacker S.
- Blom T. & Carraro V. (2014), An information processing approach to public organizations: the case of the European Union Fundamental Rights Agency, European Integration Online Papers 18(1): 1-36.
- Carraro V. (2014) Book review of Busuioc, M., Groenleer, M. and Trondal, J. (eds), ‘The agency phenomenon in the European Union: Emergence, institutionalisation, and everyday decision-making’ (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2012). Review of: 52(3).