Executive Director, Center for the Study of Human Rights
Adjunct Professor, Teachers College
International Affairs Building, Room 1108
Phone: 212-854-5420
jpm2@columbia.edu
http://sipa.columbia.edu/academics/directory/jpm2-fac.html

Paul Martin is a Co-Founder (with Columbia Law School Professor Louis Henkin) and Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Human Rights (CSHR) since 1978. He is also the Director of Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Program at SIPA and an Adjunct Professor at Teachers College. He was the Director of Earl Hall Center from 1974 to 1986.

Professor Martin has published works on moral education, human rights, and human rights education. Some of his key publications include "Promoting Human Rights Education in a Marginalized Africa," (with Cosmas Gitta and Tokunbo Ige), "Epilogue: The Next Step, Quality Control," Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century, "Race and Ethnicity," The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century. He has edited three collections of human rights documents and contributed to the Oxford Encyclopedia on Political Science and the Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East.

Martin, a former priest, holds a PhL from Angelicum University, Rome, 1960 and S.T.L. in 1964. In 1968, he received an MA from Teachers College, Columbia, followed by a Ph.D. in Comparative Education from Columbia, 1973.

Professor Martin served as a Dean at the University of Lesotho, Southern Africa. For the last five years Paul Martin has been working with human rights NGO coalitions in Africa to develop their own research and training programs.

Conferences and Programs Martin has organized as Director of the CSHR include “Re-Conceiving Rights for the 21st Century: A Dialogue between Scholars and Practitioners” held at Columbia in 2003, “Rights, Religion, and Societal Reconstruction” held at Rockefeller’s Bellagio Centre in 2002, a Colloquium on “Religion and Civil Society from a Human Rights Perspective” held at Rockefeller’s Bellagio Centre in 2001, a Landmines Conference on the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention at Columbia in 1999, a 50/20 Conference celebrating “The 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the CSHR’s 20th Anniversary” in cooperation with The Interfaith Center of New York in 1998 and several conferences on “Religion, Human Rights, and Religious Freedom” between 1995 and 1999.

Component: Religion, Human Rights and Public Policy