Enrique Bernales Ballesteros

Enrique Bernales Ballesteros (born November 6, 1940, Lima) is a Peruvian scholar and politician. He was a member of the Peruvian Senate and the first UN Special Rapporteur on mercenaries.

Bernales Ballesteros served as Principal Professor of Social Sciences at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP).[1] He also served as the general secretary of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (PSR).[1][2]

Childhood and academic career

Bernales Ballesteros is the son of Luis E. Bernales (director of Colegio Guadalupe) and Laura Ballesteros.[1][3] Whilst his family was relatively wealthy, he grew up in the Barrios Altos.[3] He went to school at Colegio La Salle for his primary and secondary education. He studied Law at PUCP and Political Science at the University of Grenoble.[1][4] During his three years as a student in Europe, he was molded in socialist thought.[3] He obtained a degree in Political Science and a doctorate in Law.[1] In 1971 he was elected Dean of the Political Science faculty at PUCP. In 1975 he studied Methodology of Historical Investigation at universities in Paris, London and Madrid.[4]

Senator

He was elected as a senator, standing as a United Left (IU) candidate.[1] In the 1985 election he was elected with 111,808 votes.[5] At the time, he was called the 'Gentleman of the Peruvian Left'. He led the left-wing faction in parliament.[3]

Special Rapporteur

Between 1987 and 2004 he served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the question of the use of mercenaries.[6][7] He was the first person to hold this post. In 2004 he was replaced by Shaista Shameem, who adopted a more conciliatory approach to the private security industry that Bernales Ballesteros. The post was abolished the following year.[8] As of 1996 he was the chairman of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.[9]

Bibliography

[1][10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Mario Guimarey; Martín Garay Seminario (1986). Quién es quién: Congreso de la República, 1985-1990. MGS & MGS Editores. p. 205.
  2. ↑ Víctor Manuel Quechua (1994). Perú, 13 años de oprobio: terrorismo internacional. V.M. Quechua. p. 4.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Martín Garay Seminario (1985). Perfiles humanos: los hombres que hacen historia en el Perú. M. Garay Seminario. p. 129.
  4. 1 2 Enrique Bernales B. (1 January 1986). El Camino Español de la Democracia. Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana, Ediciones Cultura Hispánica. p. 210. ISBN 978-84-7232-408-4.
  5. ↑ Fernando Tuesta Soldevilla (1986). Perú 1985: el derrotero de una nueva elección. Centro de Investigación de la Universidad del Pacifico / Fundación Friedrich Ebert. p. 58.
  6. ↑ Professor B S Chimni; Miyoshi Masahiro; Li-Ann Thio (20 April 2009). Asian Yearbook of International Law: Volume 13 (2007). Routledge. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-134-03021-7.
  7. ↑ Sarah Percy (21 August 2013). Regulating the Private Security Industry. Routledge. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-134-97433-7.
  8. ↑ Simon Chesterman; Chia Lehnardt (12 July 2007). From Mercenaries to Market: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies. Oxford University Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-19-922848-5.
  9. ↑ Inter-American Commission on Human Right (1 June 1999). Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano De Derechos Humanos. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. 2338. ISBN 90-411-1208-1.
  10. ↑ Magali Arellano (1992). Quién es quién? 1992. Peru Reporting E.I.R.L. p. 88.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Friday, January 31, 2014. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.