With human rights abuses running rampant in conflicts around the world, the UK has sought to build human rights commitments into its foreign and military aid partnerships to support improving partners' human rights records while guarding against risk. But, why do other countries agree to our human rights commitments and do they do so with the intention to meet them? Do these arrangements provide opportunities for exploitation, and in security capacity building relationships, are there risks the UK is training and supporting future war criminals based on faulty human rights commitments?

Bringing together academics, practitioners, and policymakers, this panel will consider the ways in which human rights commitments may be agreed to hypocritically or exploited in security capacity building relationships between the UK the countries and militaries it supports.