Omar Grech

Omar Grech (LL.D., M.A.) is Coordinator of the Human Dimension Programme at the Mediterranean Academy of Diplomatic Studies (MEDAC) where he lectures in international law including international human rights law. From 1999 to 2000 he practiced law with one of Malta’s leading law firms. From 2007 to 2009 he was Director of the International & EU Office of the University of Malta. His main interests in international law are: human rights, human rights and development, human rights education as well as the link between human rights and conflict.

Since 2001 he has organized a Human Rights Summer School at MEDAC as well as human rights seminars and workshops. He is also the co-coordinator of the joint Masters programme between MEDAC and the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

Between 2001 and 2007 he was a member of the Human Rights Education Working Group of the Euro-Med Human Rights Network. He has lectured and conducted workshops in Italy, Lebanon, Cyprus, Turkey, Ireland and Croatia.

Recent Publications:
The Self Comes to Know Itself by Re-telling Itself, (co-author), in Beliefs and Values, Vol.2 No.2, 2010

Human Rights and the Conflict Cycle (co-editor), MEDAC Publications, June 2010

Women’s Rights in the Euro-Mediterranean Area, in Mediterranean Perspectives on International Relations, MEDAC Publications, December 2009

Strengthening Diplomacy in the Mediterranean, in Liber Amicorum for Professor David Attard, Mare Nostrum Publications, 2009

Malta’s Overseas Development Aid – An Obligation or an Opportunity? in Malta's Membership of the EU: Five Years On and Looking to the Future, European Documentation and Research Centre, University of Malta, 2009

Human Rights, Development and the Millennium Development Goals in The Fight Against Poverty, European Documentation and Research Centre, University of Malta, 2008

Human Rights and Development in 80:20 Development in an Unequal World, 80:20 publications, 2007