Per Sevastik

Research

Per Sevastik holds a LL.M from Stockholm University, a LL.M, in International Legal Studies from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D, in Public International Law from Uppsala University. He is an affiliated researcher at Jönköpings University. Per’s research area includes rule of law and human rights. He conducts research on China and human rights and has also written on Afghanistan, where focus has been on rule of law, human rights, and impunity. Research interests include international law, international criminal law, human rights, rule of law, China/Africa colonialism and international law, globalization and third world approaches to international law.

Biography

Per has been working for the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) for almost thirty years with rule of law and human rights related issues in African and Asian countries. He has been guest professor at Peking University, 2006–2007, and in 2009–2012 where he taught international human rights law at Peking University Law School (PULS) and at other university law schools in China. He has been posted at the Swedish Embassy in Bangkok as first secretary (2015-2016), in Kabul Afghanistan as head of development cooperation (2016-2017) and at the Swedish Embassy in Addis Ababa, as Counsellor and coordinator for the Swedish research cooperation with Ethiopia (2019-2022). He was appointed guest professor at the Addis Ababa University in 2019-2022. He has been a visiting scholar at SOAS in London at the faculty of law and social sciences, where he conducted research on Afghanistan. He has taught human rights at Juridicum in Uppsala and other universities in Sweden. In China he lectured and examined students at master’s level at PULS, and he has also lectured at other universities in China and in other countries in Asia.