Jerusa Ali,
Jerusa Ali is a doctoral candidate in Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She holds a BSc in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, an MA in International Relations from Keele University and an LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham. She completed the fieldwork component of her doctoral project on the crime of persecution in residence at the Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, University of Ilorin, Nigeria.
Anton Baaré,
Anton Baaré has since 1990 worked as international development and conflict resolution practitioner in East and West Africa, and South East Asia. More recently he has started working in South and Central Asia. His experience covers human security, community driven recovery and development, and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) programming His work in Uganda started in 1993 when he was Danida advisor to the Uganda Veterans Assistance Board (UVAB) where he worked on the demobilization of the then called National Resistance Army (now UPDF). He has since then worked on numerous projects in Uganda, including the ongoing Northern Uganda Social Action Fund 2 (NUSAF 2). In 2000 - 2002 he was Danida advisor to the Uganda Human Rights Commission (UHRC) and manager of the Danish support Human Right and Democratisation Programme. Between 2006 and 2008 he was seconded to the GOSS mediation team on the LRA 'Juba Peace Talks' and involved in drafting the Cessation of Hostilities agreement of August 2006, training the Cessation of Hostilities Monitoring Team, and drafting the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) protocol of the Juba Peace Agreement.
Christine Bell,
Christine Bell is Professor of Constitutional Law, and Assistant Principal (Global Justice) University of Edinburgh. She is a qualified barrister and an Attorney-at-Law (US). She has a first class law degree from Selwyn College, Cambridge, (1988) and gained an LL.M in Law from Harvard Law School (1990), supported by a Harkness Fellowship. From 1990-1992 she practiced law at Debevoise & Plimpton (NY). She is a former Director of the Human Rights Centre, Queens University of Belfast, and of the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster. She was also Chairperson of the Committee on the Administration of Justice, and a member of the first Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission established under the Belfast Agreement, which had responsibility for drafting a bill of rights for Northern Ireland. Her research interests lie in the interface between constitutional and international law, gender and conflict, with a particular interest in peace processes and their agreements. She has participated in and given legal and constitutional advice to participants in a number of peace negotiations (Basque country, Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, Ogaden-Ethiopia, Philippines, Myanmar and Colombia).
Karmina Bennoune,
Karima Bennoune is Professor of Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar at the University of California, Davis School of Law. She is the author of Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism which won the 2014 Dayton Literary Peace Prize. Bennoune has served as legal advisor for Amnesty International, and currently sits on the Board of the Network of Women Living Under Muslim Laws.
Theresa S. Betancourt,
Theresa S. Betancourt, ScD, MA, is Associate Professor of Child Health and Human Rights in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Research Program on Children and Global Adversity (RPCGA). Her central research interests include the developmental and psychosocial consequences of concentrated adversity on children, youth and families; resilience and protective processes in child and adolescent mental health and child development; refugee families; and applied cross-cultural mental health research. She is Principal Investigator of a prospective longitudinal study of war-affected youth in Sierra Leone which led to the development of group interventions for war-affected youth that are now being scaled up in Sierra Leone in collaboration with the World Bank and Government of Sierra Leone. She has developed and evaluated the impact of a Family Strengthening Intervention for HIV-affected children and families and is also investigating the impact of a home-visiting early childhood development (ECD) intervention to promote enriched parent-child relationships and prevent violence in Rwanda. Domestically, she is engaged in community-based participatory research on family-based prevention of emotional and behavioral problems in refugee children and adolescents resettled in the U.S. She has written extensively on mental health and resilience in children facing adversity including recent articles in Child Development, The Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Social Science and Medicine, JAMA Psychiatry, and PLOS One.
Tess Borden,
Tess Borden is the 2015-2017 Aryeh Neier Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch. She works on the intersection of drug policy and criminal justice and is author of the 196-page ACLU/Human Rights Watch report "Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States." Tess clerked for the Honorable George A. O'Toole, Jr. of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts and was a researcher for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. She received her bachelor's degree from Yale College, where she majored in French, and her law degree from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the International Human Rights Clinic and an editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.
Pascha Bueno-Hansen,
Pascha Bueno-Hansen is an Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Feminist and Human Rights Struggles in Peru: Decolonizing Transitional Justice (University of Illinois Press 2015).
Doris Buss,
Doris Buss is Professor of Law at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, and teaches and researches in the areas of international law and human rights, women's rights, global social movements, and feminist theory. She is the author (with Didi Herman) of Globalizing Family Values: The International Politics of the Christian Right (Minnesota Press, 2003), co-editor (with Ambreena Manji) of International Law: Modern Feminist Approaches (Hart, 2005), and co-editor (with Joanne Lebert, Blair Rutherford, and Donna Sharkey) of Sexual Violence in Conflict and Post-Conflict Societies: International Agendas and African Contexts (Routledge, 2014).
Jo Butterfield,
Jo Butterfield is a Visiting Assistant Professor of history at the University of Iowa. Her research examines the history of modern human rights by exploring the intersections between policy, ideology, and activism. Her book manuscript (in progress), "Social Justice, Not Charity:" International Women's Activism, Gender Politics and the Making of Modern Human Rights" explores how feminist activists navigated international politics and ideas about gender in their efforts to promote a global "social revolution" for women in the aftermath of World War II. She co-authored "Eleanor Roosevelt: Negotiating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights" in Junctures in Women's Leadership: Social Movements (Rutgers, 2016). She currently teaches courses on the World since 1945, the US in World Affairs, the History of Human Rights, and Cold War America.
Pablo Castillo Díaz,
Pablo Castillo Díaz is a policy specialist at UN Women, focused on efforts to prevent and respond to sexual and gender-based violence in conflict, post-conflict, and emergency settings; mainstream gender equality in peacekeeping operations; and engage with the Security Council on women, peace and security. At UN Women, where he has had the privilege to visit field offices in twenty countries, he has contributed to the negotiations and adoption of several new Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security, monitoring and accountability frameworks for the UN system on 1325, research on women's participation in peace talks, conflict prevention, and peacekeeping operations, and programmatic initiatives on community-led protection and specialized trainings for peacekeepers. In 2015, he helped shape UN Women's contributions to the global study and high-level review of 1325 and the high-level independent panel on peace operations. Before joining the United Nations in 2009, he spent several years teaching international politics at various universities in the United States. He grew up in the Canary Islands (Spain) and has a degree in Political Science and International Relations from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Doctorate from Rutgers University for his work on international criminal justice and conflict resolution.
Hanny Cueva Beteta,
Hanny Cueva Beteta is UN Women's Regional Governance and Security Advisor for Asia and the Pacific. Before taking this position, she was the coordinator of the Global Study on the Implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000) and until October 2014 she served as the Gender Advisor to UNCT for the UN Women office in Peru. Previously, she was the Policy Advisor and Deputy to the Chief Advisor for the Peace and Security Section in UN Women HQ. Before joining the UN in 2006, Hanny worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Universidad del Pacifico in Lima, Peru where she published extensively on issues of poverty and development economics. She is Peruvian and holds a BA in Economics (Universdad del Pacifico, Lima) and a a MPhil in Development Studies (Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK).
Alison Davidian,
Alison Davidian is a Policy Specialist with the Peace and Security Section at UN Women in New York whose portfolio areas also include transitional justice and countering violent extremism. Previous to this, she worked as a Transitional Justice Specialist with UN Women in Uganda. She has worked for 10 years on access to justice, gender and refugee issues for organizations including the International Center for Transitional Justice in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equality Now in Zambia, UNDP Somalia, and the Refugee Advice and Casework Service in Australia.
Chris Dolan,
Chris Dolan is Director of the Refugee Law Project, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. Since 1992 he has worked extensively in South Africa, Mozambique, DRC, Rwanda and Uganda and consulted for UNHCR, UNSRSG-SVC, IICI and numerous NGOs. His research and writing is focused on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence against Men, Gender, Sexuality, Masculinities, dynamics of inclusion/exclusion in conflict and forced migration settings, including humanitarian and transitional justice processes. He is the author of Social Torture: The case of Northern Uganda 1986-2006 (Berghan 2009) and, together with Moses Chrispus Okello, editor of Where Law Meets Reality: Forging African Transitional Justice (Pambazuka Press 2012).
Judy El-Bushra,
Judy El-Bushra is an independent researcher on issues of gender, conflict, development and peacebuilding. Her main experience was gained with the development agency ACORD (1982 to 2002) and the peacebuilding organisation International Alert (2006 to 2011). She co-ordinated a research project on the impact of conflict on gender relations in five African countries ('Cycles of violence: gender relations and armed conflict') for ACORD, and helped develop International Alert's recent work on 'Rethinking gender in conflict', which aimed to set out and expand the parameters of the topic. With Judith Gardner, she co-edited Somalia, the untold story: the war through the eyes of women which they followed in 2024 with The impact of war on Somali men for the Rift Valley Institute. Her main work has been on the Horn of Africa, the Great Lakes and Nigeria.
Karen Engle,
Karen Engle is the Minerva House Drysdale Regents Chair in Law and founder and co-director of the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas at Austin. She researches and writes on international human rights law and advocacy, particularly as they intersect with women's rights and indigenous rights movements. She is author of numerous scholarly articles and The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy (Duke University Press, 2010). She is also co-editor of Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda (Cambridge University Press, 2016).
Maria Eriksson Baaz,
Maria Eriksson Baaz is Associate Professor in Peace and Development Research at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg. Her research interests are in civil-military relations, gendered dynamics of conflict and violence, and post-colonial theory. Recent years she has mainly conducted research in the DR Congo on the Congolese state security forces. She is the co-author (with Maria Stern) of Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War? Perceptions, Prescriptions, Problems in the Congo and Beyond (London, UK: Zed Books, 2013) and the author of The Paternalism of Partnership: A Postcolonial Reading of Identity in Development Aid (Zed Books, 2005). Additionally, her articles have appeared in several international peer-reviewed journals.
Naureen Chowdhury Fink,
Naureen Chowdhury Fink focuses on gender and counterterrorism at UN Women and the UN Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate. Previously, she worked for the Global Center on Cooperative Security and the International Peace Institute, she focused on international policies and programs to counterterrorism and violent extremism. She has published extensively on terrorism prevention efforts with a focus on CVE, the United Nations and gender, and been a frequent speaker on these issues. She holds a BA from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and an MA in war studies from King's College London, and is also currently a Senior Fellow at Hedayah and the Global Center on Cooperative Security.
Barbara Frey,
Barbara A. Frey, J.D., directs the Human Rights Program in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Global Studies and co-director of graduate studies for the Master of Human Rights, a joint degree of the College of Liberal Arts and the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. From 2003-06 she was special rapporteur for the U.N. Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of human rights on the topic of preventing human rights abuses committed with small arms and light weapons. Frey co-founded the Advocates for Human Rights (formerly "Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights"), where she also served as the first full-time Executive Director (1985-97).
Kathy L. Gaca,
Kathy L. Gaca is Associate Professor of Classics and an Associate Member of the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University. Her research explores aspects of social injustice rooted in antiquity that remain problematic in the modern day and need a clearer ethical and historical understanding. She focuses mainly on ancient customs of sexual violence and repression and their ongoing relevance for comprehending current norms of injustice and violence against women and girls. She is the author of several publications, including The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003, winner of the CAMWS 2006 Outstanding Publication Award) and is currently at work on her second book, Rape as Sexual Warfare against Girls and Women: Ancient Society and Religion, Modern Witness. She received her PhD in Classics at the University of Toronto and held the Hannah Seeger Davis Postdoctoral Fellowship in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.
Judith Gardam,
Judith Gardam is Emeritus Professor at the Law School, University of Adelaide in South Australia and a Fellow of both the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Law. She is an International Lawyer and a feminist scholar. Her particular areas of expertise are International Humanitarian Law and the international law rules that regulate the use of force between States. She is the author of "A New Frontline for Feminism and International Humanitarian Law" in The Ashgate Research Companion to Feminist Legal Theory, M. Davies and V. Munro (eds), Ashgate, UK 217-232 (2013); "War, Law, Terror, Nothing New for Women", 32 Australian Feminist Law Journal, 61-76 (2010) and of numerous other books and articles in her field.
Lejla Hadzimesic,
Lejla Hadzimesic is specialized in international human rights law. She has 16 years of professional experience in capacity building, research and analysis in the human rights field, both in civil society sector and in international organisations including the United Nations. She holds a Master's Degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Oxford.
Anne Marie Goetz,
Anne Marie Goetz is a professor at New York University at the Center for Global Affairs. She was a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and was a senior advisor on Women, Peace and Security at UNIFEM/UN Women, where she developed policy on women and peacebuilding and combatting sexual violence in conflict Goetz is the author or co-author of seven books on women's rights, democratization, and accountability, including No Shortcuts to Power: African Women in Politics and Policy-Making (Zed Press, 2003), and Governing Women: Women in Politics and Governance in Developing Countries(Routlegde, 2009).
Gina Heathcote,
Gina Heathcote is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies and International Law at SOAS University of London, where she teaches a portfolio of courses on Public International Law and Gender Studies, including Gender, Armed Conflict and International Law and Feminist Legal Theory. Gina is the author of The Law on the Use of Force: a Feminist Analysis and co-editor (with Dianne Otto) of Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and International Law. Gina is also a member of the Feminist Review editorial collective.
Elizabeth Heineman,
Elizabeth Heineman is Professor of History and Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa, where she also serves on the Executive Board of the Center for Human Rights. Her recent publications include Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones: From the Ancient World to the Era of Human Rights (ed., Penn Press 2011).
Marsha Henry,
Dr. Marsha Henry is Deputy Director of the Centre for Women, Peace and Security and Associate Professor in the Gender Institute. She has previously worked at the University of Bristol and the University of British Columbia. Dr. Henry's research interests focus on gender and militarisation, peacekeeping and qualitative methodologies. For the past 12 years she has been conducting research on the social, cultural and gendered aspects of peacekeeping. She has co-published Insecure Spaces with Zed Press in 2009 and her recent work on female peacekeepers from the Global South can be found in the journal Globalizations.
Christof Heyns,
Christof Heyns is professor of human rights law and Director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law at the University of Pretoria, where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Law and Director of the Centre for Human Rights. He is a member of the teaching faculty of the human rights Masters' programme at Oxford University, adjunct professor at the American University in Washington DC, and is currently a visiting professor at the University of Geneva. Heyns was United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions 2010 - 2016. During 2016 he chaired the UN Independent Investigation on Burundi and will be a member of the UN Human Rights Committee as from 2017. He has published widely in the field of human rights. He holds degrees in law and philosophy from the Universities of Pretoria, the Witwatersrand and Yale Law School. He has been a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg and a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard Law School.
Amelia Hoover Green,
Amelia Hoover Green is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at Drexel University, and a Field Consultant to the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Her research primarily falls in two areas: the politics of quantification in human rights practice, and the role of armed group institutions in creating and controlling violence against civilians in wartime. As a consultant to HRDAG she has aided prosecutions in both national and international courts. Her current book manuscript, The Commander's Dilemma, focuses on variation in repertoires of violence against civilians during civil war in El Salvador.
Lucy Hovil,
Lucy Hovil is the Senior Researcher at the International Refugee Rights Initiative and the Managing Editor of the International Journal of Transitional Justice. She has sixteen years of experience in carrying out research in Africa's Great Lakes region, where she previously founded and led the Research and Advocacy department at the Refugee Law Project, Faculty of Law, Makerere University, Uganda.
Rob Jenkins,
Rob Jenkins is Professor of Political Science at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He has published widely on peacebuilding, including a monograph, Peacebuilding: From Concept to Commission (Routledge, 2013). Jenkins was the lead author of the "Report of the Secretary-General on Women's Participation in Peacebuilding" (2010). His most recent publication, Politics and the Right to Work (Oxford University Press, 2016), examines the political origins and implications of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, one of the largest anti-poverty programs in the developing world.
Avila Kilmurray,
Avila Kilmurray is a practitioner in the area of peacebuilding and community-based action, drawing experience from developments in Northern Ireland through her work as Director of the Community Foundation for Northern Ireland (1994-2014) and as a founder member of the Northern Ireland Women's Coalition. Avila is a Board member of Conciliation Resources (UK) and a founder member of the Foundations for Peace Network, independent funders working in Sri Lanka, Serbia, Georgia, Palestine, Colombia, Nepal, India and Bangladesh. Appointed a Hon. Visiting Professor at the University of Ulster's Transitional Justice Institute, Avila's recent publications include "Civil Society Actors and the End of Violence," in The Ashgate Research Companion to Political Violence (ed. M. Breen-Smyth, 2012); "Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Conflict-affected Environments: A Guide for Funders" (Social Change Initiative, 2016) and Community Action in Contested Society: The Story of Northern Ireland (Peter Lang, 2016 - forthcoming).
Lisa Kindervater,
Lisa Kindervater is a doctoral researcher at The University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She has a Master of Arts in International Development Studies (Dalhousie University) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science. Using Liberia as a case study, her master's thesis examined women's political participation and gender equality outcomes in transitions to peace and democracy. Her research and teaching interests include the comparative politics of post-colonial African states and gender politics in transitional societies, particularly in African contexts. Lisa is presently conducting her PhD fieldwork in Liberia, where she is focusing on women's political participation and representation, especially the struggle for a legislative quota and on female aspirants in the 2017 elections.
Patricia Justino,
Patricia Justino is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies in the UK. She is a development economist specializing in applied microeconomics. Her current research work focuses on the impact of violence and conflict on household welfare and local institutional structures, the micro foundations of violent conflict and the implications of violence for economic development. Patricia has led several research projects funded by the British Academy, DFID, the European Commission, the ESRC, FAO, the Leverhulme Trust, UNDP, UNESCO, UN Women and the World Bank. She was the Director of MICROCON, and co-founder and co-director of the Households in Conflict Network. Since June 2010, Patricia convenes the Conflict and Violence cluster at IDS.
Kristin Kalla,
Kristin Kalla led the creation of the ICC Trust Fund for Victims and oversees the victims' assistance and reparations programs, including providing leadership toward gender-sensitive and inclusive programming for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. She is a public health anthropologist with over 25 years of experience managing humanitarian, human rights and public health efforts in over 20 countries in conflict situations-primarily in Africa. In 2014, Ms. Kalla was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
Sabrina Karim,
Sabrina Karim's (PhD candidate, Emory University) will start as an assistant professor in Government at Cornell University in 2017. During 2016-2017, she is a Dartmouth Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security She is the co-author of a forthcoming book with Oxford University Press entitled Equal Opportunity Peacekeeping. She has forthcoming and published work relate to security, peacekeeping, and gender in International Organization, The Journal of Peace Research, International Interactions, and International Peacekeeping. Her research interests include gender reforms in the post-conflict security sector and in peacekeeping, the effect of security sector reform on peace and security, third party involvement in peace processes, and the relationship between conflict-related violence and post-conflict sexual violence. She has conducted extensive fieldwork in Liberia and Peru, and employs multiple methods in her work including field experiments. She is a recipient of both the Fulbright Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. She received her master's degree as a Clarendon Scholar from Oxford University and her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University.
Amrita Kapur,
Amrita Kapur is an independent consultant and the former Senior Associate in the Gender Justice Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York, where she focused on the gender dimensions of measures such as truth-seeking, criminal prosecutions, reparations, and institutional reform. She lectures at New York University, and previously at the Faculty of Law at the University of New South Wales in Australia. Previously she worked on gender justice issues in Timor-Leste, Mozambique, Tanzania, Colombia, Guinea, Uganda, DRC and Kenya; and has practiced domestic and international criminal law. Amrita holds psychology and law degrees, and an LL.M in International Legal Studies from New York University. She is completing a PhD on the ICC's potential to catalyze national prosecutions for international crimes of sexual violence including field research in Colombia and Guinea.
Sari Kouvo,
Sari Kouvo is adviser for human rights and gender at the European External Action Service in Brussels. Sari's previous engagements include, founder and co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, senior associate at the International Centre for Transitional Justice and special adviser to the European Union Special Adviser for Afghanistan. She has held visiting fellowships at the NATO Defense College, Australian National Univerity and Kent/Keele Universities. Sari holds a doctorate and an associate professor degree from Gothenburg University, and has published extensively on gender, international law and Afghanistan.
Roxanne Krystalli,
Roxanne Krystalli is the Program Manager for the Humanitarian Evidence Program, a UK aid-funded partnership between Oxfam GB and the Feinstein International Center to synthesize evidence-based humanitarian research and improve its use in humanitarian policy and practice. Roxanne is a PhD Candidate at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, where she is exploring questions related to victim-centered justice.
Corey Levine,
Corey Levine is a human rights and peacebuilding policy expert, researcher and writer with a specialization in gender. She has worked in conflict and post-conflict areas for more than twenty years. She has worked in Afghanistan at various periods between 2002 - 2014, and was the Gender Advisor for the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in 2004/5.
Amina Mama,
Amina Mama, widely published and travelled Nigerian/British feminist activist, researcher and scholar, has lived and worked Nigeria, South Africa, Britain, the Netherlands and the USA. She is Professor in the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studeis at UC Davis. She spent 10 years (1999-2009) leading the establishment of the University of Cape Town's African Gender Institute as a continental resource dedicated to developing transformative scholarship bringing feminist theory and activism together. Founding editor of the continental journal of gender studies, Feminist Africa, her publications include Beyond the Masks: Race, Gender and Subjectivity (Routledge 1995), Women's Studies and Studies of Women in Africa (CODESRIA 1996), Engendering African Social Sciences (co-edited, CODESRIA 1997) and numerous book chapters and journal articles. Committed to strengthening activism and activist research in African contexts, her research interests include culture and subjectivity, politics and policy, women's movements and militarism. She and Yaba Badoe co-produced the 50-minute documentary film 'The Witches of Gambaga' 2010.
Dyan Mazurana,
Dyan Mazurana, Ph.D., is Associate Research Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University and Research Director at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University, USA. Her areas of focus include women, children and armed conflict; documenting serious crimes committed during conflict and working with survivors; accountability, remedy and reparation; and research methods in situations of armed conflict. Her latest book is Research methods in conflict settings: A view from below (Cambridge University Press, 2013) with Karen Jacobsen and Lacey Gale.
Sheila Meintjes,
Sheila Meintjes recently retired as Professor from the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where she taught African politics and feminist theory and politics. She was involved in the anti-apartheid movement, and worked with rural social movements and women's movements in the 1980s and 1990s. She was a Commissioner in the South African Commission for Gender Equality from 2001-2004. She has sat on numerous NGO boards working for social justice, gender equality and against gender violence. She has published on post-conflict and gender politics, co-editing The Aftermath: Women in Post-conflict Transformation (2002), One Woman, One Vote: the Gender Politics of Elections (2003), Women Writing Africa: the Southern Region (2003), and Women's Activism in South Africa: Working Across Divides (2009). Currently, she co-leads a research project on South Africa and Switzerland entitled 'Safeguarding Democracy: contests of values and interests'.
Monica McWilliams,
Monica McWilliams is Professor of Women's Studies and Research Fellow in the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University. Monica was involved in the multi-party peace talks leading to the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and served as Chief Commissioner for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission. Her research and writing focus on the impact of political conflict on women's lives.
Donny Meertens,
Donny Meertens is Associate Professor at Javeriana University (retired) in Bogota, Colombia and formerly worked in the Gender Studies School at Colombia´s National University, and for UNHCR and Unifem in Colombia. She was the Rapporteur of the Historical Memory Report on violent land dispossession of women and men in Colombia´s armed conflict (published in Spanish as La Tierra en Disputa, 2010) and Fellow 2013-2014 at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC. She has published numerous articles in English and Spanish on Gender and conflict, forced displacement; transitional justice and access to land.
Vasuki Nesiah,
Vasuki Nesiah is Assoc. Prof. of Practice at New York University. Her main areas of research include the law and politics of international human rights and humanitarianism, international feminisms and the history of colonialism in international law. Her most immediate project includes a co-edited the volume (with Luis Eslava and Michael Fakhri) A Global History of Bandung and Critical Traditions in International Law (CUP forthcoming).
Lauren C. Ng,
Lauren C. Ng is an Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine and staff psychologist at Boston Medical Center. Her work focuses on the psychological impact of war, conflict, and daily hardships on children and families, risk and resilience factors in child and adolescent global mental health, and the development and assessment of culturally-appropriate evidence-based interventions for trauma and its correlates.
Dianne Otto,
Dianne Otto holds the Francine V. McNiff Chair in Human Rights Law and is Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH) at Melbourne Law School, Australia. Her research covers a broad range of interests including addressing gender, sexuality and race inequalities in the context of international human rights law, the UN Security Council's peacekeeping work, the technologies of global 'crisis governance', threats to economic, social and cultural rights, and the transformative potential of people's tribunals and other NGO initiatives. Her recent publications include Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security (co-edited with Gina Heathcote, Palgrave-Macmillan 2014), three edited volumes, Gender Issues and Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing, Human Rights Law Series, 2013) and a bibliographic chapter, 'Feminist Approaches', in Oxford Bibliographies Online: International Law, ed. Tony Carty (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).
Pramila Patten,
Pramila Patten is the Vice Chairperson of CEDAW Committee, having been a member since 2003. She is also a member of the Working Group on Communications under the Optional Protocol to CEDAW and a member of the Advisory Panel for the African Women's Rights Observatory of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. She has served on the Governing Council and the Executive Committee of the African Centre for Democracy and Human Rights Studies (ACDHRS) and Women in Law and Development in Africa (WILDAF), both large Pan-African organizations. She was appointed Commissioner by the Secretary General of the United Nations on the International Commission of Inquiry which investigated into the massacre in Guinea Conakry on 28 September 2009. Ms. Patten chaired the Working Group on General Recommendation No. 30 on "Women in Conflict Prevention, Conflict and Post-conflict Situations," adopted by the CEDAW Committee on 18 October 2013, and has has provided technical assistance to several States Parties to CEDAW including Albania, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Haiti, Timor Leste, Ukraine, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, India, Bangladesh, Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia. In July 2014, Ms Patten was appointed by UN Women on a High Level Expert Advisory Panel on the monitoring of implementation of Security Council Resolution 1325. Mrs Patten is consultant for several regional and international organizations. Ms. Patten is a practicing lawyer in Mauritius since 1982 and a member of Gray's Inn.
Patti Petesch,
Patti Petesch, an independent researcher, specializes in qualitative field research on gender, poverty, conflict and participatory development. She co-authored World Bank global studies: Voices of the Poor, Moving out Poverty, and On Norms and Agency; and authored, for USAID, Women's Empowerment Arising from Violent Conflict and Recovery: Life Stories from Four Middle-Income Countries. She is currently advising on design and analysis for a 25 country study with the CGIAR entitled GENNOVATE: Enabling gender equality in agricultural and environmental innovation.
Eilish Rooney,
Eilish Rooney teaches in the School of Sociology & Applied Social Sciences and is a member of the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University. She uses intersectionality in her research on gender and women's lives in conflict and applies the theory to practice in the Institute's Grassroots Toolkit programme with Bridge of Hope http://www.transitionaljustice.ulster.ac.uk/TJToolkit.htm.
Ambika Satkunanathan,
Ambika Satkunanathan was appointed a Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka in October 2015. From February 1998 - March 2014 Ambika functioned as Legal Consultant to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights attached to the Office of the UN-Resident Coordinator in Colombo. Her research has focused on transitional justice, militarization, and gender and Tamil nationalism. Her forthcoming publications include contributions to the Routledge Handbook on Human Rights in South Asia, and Contemporary South Asia. Ambika is Chairperson of the Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust, an indigenous grant-making organisation. She is also an Advisory Board Member of Suriya Women's Development Centre, Batticaloa in the Eastern Province. Ambika has a Master of Laws (Human Rights) degree from the University of Nottingham, where she was Chevening Scholar 2001-2, and earned bachelors degrees (LL.B / B.A) at Monash University, Australia.
Patricia Viseur Sellers,
Patricia Viseur Sellers is an international criminal lawyer and the Special Advisor for Prosecution Strategies to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. As a Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College of Oxford University she lectures on international criminal law. From 1994-2007, Ms. Sellers was the Legal Advisor for Gender Related Crimes and Senior Acting Trial Attorney in the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda where she advised and litigated cases, such as, the Prosecutor v. Furundzija, the Prosecutor v. Akayesu and the Prosecutor v. Kunarac. She has been a Special Advisor to the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict, and, in 2000, was the Co-Prosecutor at the International Women's Tribunal in a symbolic trial to redress crimes committed against the Comfort Women. She is a recipient of the American Society of International Law's Prominent Women in International Law Award. Her articles include "Wartime Female Slavery: Enslavement?"; "Gender Strategy in Not a Luxury"; the upcoming "Rape and Sexual Violence," in the New Commentaries to the Geneva Conventions,and; the upcoming "Issues of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia" with Valerie Oosterveld.
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian,
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian is the Lawrence D. Biele Chair in Law at the Faculty of Law-Institute of Criminology and the School of Social Work and Public Welfare at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a longtime anti-violence, native Palestinian feminist activist and the director of the Gender Studies Program at Mada al-Carmel, the Arab Center for Applied Social Research in Haifa. Her research focuses on law, society and crimes of abuse of power. She studies the crime of femicide and other forms of gendered violence, crimes of abuse of power in settler colonial contexts, surveillance, securitization and social control, and trauma and recovery in militarized and colonized zones. Shalhoub-Kevorkian's most recent book is entitled: Militarization and Violence Against Women in Conflict Zones in the Middle East: The Palestinian Case Study published by Cambridge University Press, 2010. Her latest book is entitled: Security Theology, Surveillance and the Politics of Fear, published by Cambridge University Press. She has published articles in multi-disciplinary fields including British Journal of Criminology, International Review of Victimology, Feminism and Psychology, Middle East Law and Governance, International Journal of Lifelong Education, American Behavioral Scientist Journal, Social Service Review, Violence Against Women, Journal of Feminist Family Therapy: An International Forum, Social Identities, Social Science and Medicine, Signs, Law & Society Review, and more. As a resident of the old city of Jerusalem, Shalhoub-Kevorkian is a prominent local activist. She engages in direct actions and critical dialogue to end the inscription of power over Palestinian children's lives, spaces of death, and women's birthing bodies and lives.
Maria Stern,
Maria Stern holds a B.A. in Political Science (Cornell University, USA) and a Ph.D. in Peace and Development Studies from the University of Gothenburg. She is Professor in Peace and Development Studies at the School of Global Studies (SGS) and member of the Steering Committee at the Gothenburg Center for Globalization and Development, Gothenburg University (GCGD). She also co- leads the research group Global Gender Studies at SGS.
Laura Sjoberg,
Laura Sjoberg is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago, a JD from Boston College, and PhD in International Relations from the University of Southern California. Dr. Sjoberg's work has been published in more than three dozen journals in Political Science, Law, International Relations, Gender Studies, and Geography. She is author or editor of ten books, including, most recently, Gender, War, and Conflict (Polity, 2014) and Beyond Mothers, Monsters, Whores (with Caron Gentry, Zed Books, 2015). Her current projects include an edited volume on quantitative methods in critical and constructivist IR, Interpretive Quantification (with J. Samuel Barkin, forthcoming, University of Michigan Press), and a book on women's perpetration of conflict sexual violence, Women as Wartime Rapists (2016, New York University Press).
Kimberly Theidon,
Kimberly Theidon, a medical anthropologist, is the Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Her research interests include political violence, transitional justice, reconciliation, and the politics of post-war reparations. She is the author of many articles, and Entre Prójimos: El conflicto armado interno y la política de la reconciliación en el Perú (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1st edition 2004; 2nd edition 2009) and Intimate Enemies: Violence and Reconciliation in Peru (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
Aili Mari Tripp,
Aili Mari Tripp is Professor of Political Science and Evjue Bascom Professor in Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Tripp's research has focused on women and politics in Africa, women's movements in Africa, women and peacebuilding, transnational feminism, African politics (with particular reference to Uganda and Tanzania), and on the informal economy in Africa. She is author of several award winning books, including Women and Power in Postconflict Africa (2015), Museveni's Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime (2010), African Women's Movements: Transforming Political Landscapes (2009) with Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, and Alice Mungwa, and Women and Politics in Uganda (2000). She has co-edited (with Myra Marx Ferree and Christina Ewig) Gender, Violence, and Human Security: Critical Feminist Perspectives (2013).
Valerie Oosterveld,
Valerie Oosterveld is the Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies) and an Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law (Canada). She previously served as a Legal Officer with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs, providing legal advice on international criminal law. Her research and writing focus on gendered forms of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, as well as on gender-sensitive international criminal prosecutions.
Martina E. Vandenberg,
Martina E. Vandenberg is the founder and president of The Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center (HT Pro Bono). Vandenberg established HT Pro Bono in 2012 with generous support from the Open Society Foundations (OSF) Fellowship Program. Prior to becoming an OSF Fellow, Vandenberg served as a partner at Jenner & Block LLP, where she focused on complex commercial litigation and internal investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Vandenberg has spent two decades fighting human trafficking, forced labor, rape as a war crime, and violence against women. A former Human Rights Watch researcher, Vandenberg spearheaded investigations into human rights violations in the Russian Federation, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Uzbekistan, Kosovo, Israel, and Ukraine. In 2013, she received the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation's Stevens Award for outstanding service in public interest law. T'ruah presented Vandenberg with the Raphael Lemkin Human Rights Award in 2014. She received the Katharine & George Alexander Law Prize the following year. Vandenberg currently serves as a co-chair of the International Bar Association's Human Trafficking Task Force.A Rhodes Scholar and Truman Scholar, Vandenberg has taught as an adjunct faculty member at the American University Washington College of Law and at the Oxford University Human Rights Summer Program.
Dubravka Zarkov,
Dubravka Zarkov is Associate Professor of Gender, Conflict, Development at the International Institute of Social Studies/ Erasmus University Rotterdam (The Netherlands). Her work addresses intersections of gender, sexuality and ethnicity in (sexual) violence in war and their media representations, nexus of neo-liberal globalization and violent conflict, and ontological and epistemological questions in contemporary theorizing of war. Her recent publications include Conflict, Peace, Security and Development: Theories and Methodologies (2015) co-edited with Helen Hintjens, Routledge, and Narratives of Justice in and out of the Courtroom: Former Yugoslavia and Beyond (2014) co-edited with Marlies Glasius, Springer. She is also co-editor of European Journal of Women's Studies.
