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Joshua Cooper is an academic, advocate, author, analyst and activist based in Hawaii.
Joshua has created, crafted and coordinated 60 unique courses in Political Science, Journalism and Peace Studies drafting and delivering curriculum for over 100 plus classes in two decades at the University of Hawaii. Cooper also offers impactful instruction for the University of New South Wales Diplomacy Training Program covering International Human Rights Law; Business & Human Rights; Climate Justice & Sustainable Development; Indigenous Peoples Struggle for Self-Determination; and Traditional/Social Media Strategy for Social Change. Joshua lectures regularly at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights and Blanquerna School for Communication & International Relations Ramon Llul University, Barcelona.
He is currently the Director of the Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights and CEO of the GOOD Group. He also served as the co-Chair for the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Task Force at the US Human Rights Network. Cooper holds positions of Senior Global Advocacy Manager; Senior Director of Communications & Community Engagement; Senior Director of Global Governance & International Initiatives; Senior Director of Research, Policy & Law with multiple people’s movements, NGOs, human rights defenders’ associations around the world.
Joshua Cooper is a human rights advocate engaging in global and regional mechanisms guaranteeing fundamental freedoms. He has participated as an official observer at United Nations meetings in both the charter and treaty bodies of the human rights machinery for over two decades. He serves on Human Rights Cities Alliance Steering Committee bringing human rights home.
Joshua is active in the development and climate change advocacy, and advises Major Groups and Other Stakeholders in the UN Voluntary National Reviews for the High-Level Political Forum and is mobilizing subnational initiatives such as Voluntary Local Reviews spearheaded by cities.
He currently serves as Chief Sustainability Officer for Maui Mayor in Office of Innovation & Sustainability focusing on climate resilience, regenerative rights, food sovereignty, energy abundance, water security, community adaptation actions, and municipal multilateralism.
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TrainingThis training course, specifically designed for staff of city and regional governments, will explore the means and mechanisms through which local and regional governments can interact with and integrate the recommendations of international human rights bodies in their concrete work at the local level.
