Faculty

Mark Gibney

Carol G. Belk Distinguished Professor in Humanities

Mark Gibney is the Belk Distinguished Professor at UNC Asheville.  His most recent book publications include the edited volume Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010), the e-book The Global Refugee Crisis (ABC-CLIO), and Sabine Carey, Mark Gibney and Steven Poe, The Politics of Human Rights: The Quest for Dignity (Cambridge University Press, 2010).  Since 1984, Gibney has directed the Political Terror Scale (PTS), which measures levels of political violence in more than 185 countries (www.politicalterrorscale.org). 

Education

• Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Michigan;
• J.D. Villanova University School of Law;
• BA in Political Sicence,  Boston College

Courses Taught

• POLS 327: Constitutional Law
• POLS330 WI:DI:Individual  Rights and Civil Liberties
• POLS 331: Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy
• POLS 388 Human Rights and International Politics

CV

Professional Interests

• Steering Committee and Founding Member, Extraterritorial Obligations (ETO) Human Rights Consortium, 2007-present
•  Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, Lancaster University, 2007-present
•  Consultant, Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO), Center for the Study of Civil War, 2007-present
•  Member of the Economic Rights Group (ERG), Human Rights Center, University of Connecticut, 2006-present
•  Member of the Migration Industry and Markets for Managing Migration (Copenhagen), 2009-present
•  Chair-Elect, Human Rights Section, International Studies Association
•  Past-President, Human Rights Section, American Political Science Association

Recent Publications

Latest Book Publications

• The Politics of Human Rights: The Quest for Dignity (with Sabine Carey and Steven Poe) (Cambridge University Press, 2010)  http://www.cambridge.org/aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521614054&ss=cop
• Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations (edited volume with Sigrun Skogly) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)  http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14730.html
•  Global Refugee Crisis (2d ed.) (ABC-CLIO, 2010) http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?id=51605

Selected Journal Articles

•  “The Political Terror Scale: A Re-Introduction and a Comparison with CIRI” (with Reed Wood) Human Rights Quarterly 32:367-400 (2010)
•  “Genocide and State Responsibility,” Human Rights Law Review 7:760-773 (2007)
•  “The NATO Bombing Case and the Limits of Western Human Rights Protection,” (with Erik Roxstrom and Terje Einarsen) Boston University International Law Journal 23:55-136 (2005)
•   “On the Need for an International Civil Court,” The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 26:47-58 (2002)
•  “Transnational Human Rights Obligations,” (with Sigrun Skogly) Human Rights Quarterly 24:781-98 (2002)
•  “The Status of State Apologies,” (with Erik Roxstrom) Human Rights Quarterly 23:911-39 (2001)
•  “All the News That’s Fit to Print?: New York Times Coverage of Human Rights Violations,” (with Steven Caliendo) The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 4:48-69 (1999)
•  “Transnational State Responsibility for Violations of Human Rights,” (with Katarina Tomasevki and Jens Vedsted-Hansen), Harvard Human Rights Journal 12:267-96 (1999)
•  "U.S. Refugee Policy:  A Human Rights Analysis Update," (with Vanessa Dalton and Marc Vockell) Journal of Refugee Studies, 5:36-46 (1992)

Political Terror Scale

http://www.politicalterrorscale.org/