Pedro Antonio Nikken Bellshaw (12 June 1945 – 9 December 2019) was a Venezuelan lawyer and jurist.
[2] He was professor and dean of the Faculty of Juridical and Political Sciences of the Central University of Venezuela.
[4] In 1988 he was vice president of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights.
[5] In the 1990s, the United Nations appointed him as legal advisor to the mediation that ended the Salvadoran Civil War.
[8] In 2017 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires.