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YASSIN M’BOGE is currently a Research Fellow at University College Dublin where she teaches and researches on international criminal law. Dr M’Boge was a delegate at the Review Conference of the International Criminal Court and acted as Special Advisor to the Minister of Justice of the Gambia at on the International Criminal Court. Dr M’Boge is also author of a book ‘The International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council’ to be published with Cambridge University Press (forthcoming 2012). She is also co-author of a book entitled ‘Evidence and International Criminal Trials’ to be published with Hart Publishing (forthcoming 2012). Dr M’Boge has worked in the Legal Advisory Section of the Registry at the International Criminal Court and in 2009 wrote an amicus curiae brief for Queen’s University Belfast Human Rights Centre submitted to the International Criminal Court in the case of Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga and Mathieu Ngudjolo Chui. PÁDRAIG McAULIFFIE is a graduate of University College Cork. In 2009, he was awarded his doctorate for his research on the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in East Timor. He held a visiting research fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007. From 2008 to 2009, Pádraig worked as a researcher in the Legal Division of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs. In 2009 Pádraig was appointed to a lectureship in law at the University of Dundee. He is a contributor to the Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law and convenes the annual Scottish Early Careers Research Colloquium with Dr. Stephanie Switzer. His research interests include international criminal law and transitional justice DANIELA NADJ is a doctoral researcher and Lecturer in Law at the University of Westminster, School of Law. Over the course of her academic career, Daniela has lectured in the following subjects: The United Nations System for the Protection of Human Rights; UK Human Rights Law; International Criminal Law; International Humanitarian Law and Public Law. Her teaching experience also includes a post as Teaching Fellow in International Law and Human Rights at the Department of Political Science at University College London (UCL). Daniela’s primary research interests lie in international criminal justice, feminist legal theory and armed conflict. Her research focuses on the intersection of gender and ethnicity in times of armed conflict, and she is particularly interested in the legal modalities by which wartime identities are absorbed by international law, and what this represents for women in the current political moment. Moreover, she is interested in the gendered dynamics within post-conflict situations, which she aims to further explore in her future research. Her presentation at the 2nd Biennial War Crimes Conference draws on her contribution for a special edition of the International Journal of Human Rights to be published in June 2011. KIMBERLEY PARTEE is a student in the PhD programme of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University. Her undergraduate thesis at Amherst College explored the post-war history of Auschwitz as it evolved into the site and symbol for the Holocaust through different discourses- Jewish, Polish, Catholic, German, and international. This work led her in graduate school to explore the conflicts and intricacies between the creation of collective memory and the recording of history. Her research at Clark focuses on a wide range of perpetrator studies and the perception and reception of their image today. Partee has and continues to work on the Trawniki men; the female Nazi auxiliary guards at Ravensbruck, and the female genocidaires of Rwanda. Through these subjects, Partee explores how the impact of physical place, post-war crime trials, and the media in particular influence the perception and creation of history. Partee is in the beginning stages of researching and writing her dissertation which focuses on the wartime experiences of the Trawniki men, a group of Ukrainian auxiliaries who were trained to be guards in the Operation Reinhard camps in Eastern Poland. The project will incorporate social psychology, history and law in order to demonstrate the complexity behind Eastern European collaboration. More importantly her research will explore the historiography of the Trawniki men, from Soviet POWs to Nazi death camp guards. MILICA PESIC is Executive Director of the Media Diversity Institute, London. A native of Belgrade, Milica Pesic was a presenter and editor at TV Serbia (bombed by NATO for its war propaganda) for more than ten years before being removed by Slobodan Milosevic’s regime. She helped found the AIM independent feature agency – the longest lasting media project in South-Eastern Europe (1992-2000). She has reported for the BBC, Radio Free Europe, and the Times HES. In 1997 she joined (as an editor, producer and presenter) ‘The Hague Diary’ team, one of the first video records of the Hague Tribunal, produced by Internews, London. Milica Pesic holds an MA (thesis: ‘Manipulation by Picture: Case-study TV Serbia’) from City University, London, in International Journalism, and has lectured at University of Kent, King's College and City University in London; Toronto, Concordia and Carleton Universities in Canada, Michigan and St. Lawrence Universities in the United States, Tirana University in Albania, and Tbilisi University in Georgia. She has a BA in Comparative World Literature from Belgrade University. She has designed and conducted media training for the UN, EC, Council of Europe, UNESCO, OFS, Freedom Forum and IFJ. She has been interviewed regularly about political and media issues in South-eastern Europe by the BBC and CNN. She is a media consultant for Council of Europe, member of English PEN, as well as the NUJ and the IFJ. Media Diversity Institute Horrified by the unprofessional and unethical way the media fuelled the conflict by increasing tensions between ethnic groups in the Balkans, Milica joined the International Federation of Journalists (Brussels) and then New York University’s Centre for War, Peace and the News Media through which Milica set up Media Diversity Institute (MDI) as a way to promote responsible journalism as related to diversity. From initial work in South East Europe, MDI took its expertise to former Soviet countries and then to West Africa, the Middle East, North Africa and South East Asia. Over the last few years MDI has brought its experience from troubled regions to address tensions in increasingly diverse Western societies. DAN PLESCH read history at Nottingham and obtained professional qualifications in social work and public administration from Bristol in 1979 and 1980. Dr Plesch then worked for non-governmental organisations focused on the abolition of nuclear weapons. In 1986 he founded the British American Security Information Council (BASIC) and directed it from Washington DC until 2001, when he became the Senior Research Fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies in London. Academic posts since 1988 include Honorary Visiting Research Fellow at the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University, Research Associate at Birkbeck College, University of London and Senior Visiting Research Fellow at Keele University. Outside academia, he has acted as consultant and advisor to the UK and US governments, the BBC, CNN, Sky News, Kroll Security International, Oxfam, the Foreign Policy Centre and Greenpeace. He was the independent advisor to the UK government's department of constitutional affairs on the implementation of the Freedom of Information Act. Dr Plesch gave the keynote address to the official conference on the London bombings of 7/7/05, and was invited to give a plenary address to the World Congress on Renewable Energy in 2006. He is frequently invited to contribute to the media, including BBC TV and Radio, the New York Times, Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian and the New Statesman. Dr Plesch's book, 'America, Hitler and the UN' has been hailed as ‘magnificent’ by Sir Brian Urquhart, former UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping, and by Sir Michael Howard, founder of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, as a ‘lively and provocative study...that will make us re-examine many currently held assumptions about the making of the post-war world’. The book is an outcome of the Centre's research programme and earlier publications in this field. NARISSA RAMSUNDAR is currently a PhD candidate at Queen Mary University, University of London. She is researching the interfacing of the different regimes of responsibility for mass atrocities namely the core crimes under the Rome Statute. She acquired a LLM (Distinction) from Kings College, University of London in 2007 in Public International Law. She has practised as a State Prosecutor in her home country of Trinidad and Tobago for nine years and as a civil litigator for one year. She has prosecuted a variety of offences both as lead prosecutor as part of teams in a wide range of matters including fraud, sexual offences, narcotic trafficking and murder at the domestic level and has also worked on transnational crimes. She has been a visiting tutor at University College of London in the International Protection of Human Rights. She was also active in the training of all levels of Law Enforcement staff on the application of internationally accepted human rights standards in investigation, prosecution and detention of accused individuals within the Caribbean. In addition to her research on responsibility for mass atrocities, she remains committed to research and practical development on the application of human rights to prosecutions and investigations both at the domestic and international level. She has presented in several conferences on the areas of international criminal law specifically as relates to the questions of responsibility for mass atrocities. SHIRLEY RANDELL(AO, PhD, FACE, FAIM, FAICD) is the Founding Director of the Centre for Gender, Culture and Development Studies at the Kigali Institute of Education in Rwanda, East Africa. CGCDS offers the first Masters and Continuing Development Programmes in Social Sciences (Gender and Development) in Rwanda. The Centre is involved in research and consultancy in gender issues as well as in teaching and learning. Prior to this appointment Professor Randell worked for three years as Senior Adviser, Gender, Education, and Governance for Empowerment for the Netherlands Development Organisation in East and Central Africa. In this role she worked closely with women’s associations, including the Rwanda Forum for Women Parliamentarians and the Forum for African Women Educationalists. In 1996 Professor Randell completed a distinguished 20-year career in education and in commonwealth, state and local governments in Australia. As a leading expert in public sector and institutional reform in developing countries and in gender mainstreaming and human rights for women, she has provided specialist technical assistance to governments in the Asia Pacific Region and in Africa over the last 15 years. Professor Randell has completed a three year term as World Vice President of the International Federation of University Women and is Founder and first Secretary General of the Rwandan Association of University Women, where she is now Convener for International Relations. She is also Patron of the Australian Centre for Leadership for Women, Board member of the New York-based Virginia Gildersleeve International Fund and the Youth Employment Service in Rwanda, and an Honorary member of Business and Professional Women in Australia. In 2010 Shirley Randell was decorated with the medal of the Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to international relations, particularly through the promotion of human rights of women and through public sector reform in developing countries. She is a distinguished researcher, author and speaker at international level. Additional biographical information is on her webpage: www.shirleyrandell.com.au Her email address is mail@shirleyrandell.com.au ROD RASTAN serves as Legal Advisor in the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, where he deals with international law issues across the different situations and cases. Prior to joining the ICC, he worked for several years in the area of human rights, rule of law, and mediation with UN missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor and Cyprus as well as with field presences of the EU and OSCE. He also participated in the negotiation of the ICC Statute and Rules of Procedure and Evidence. He holds a PhD in Law from the London School of Economics and has published and lectured on international criminal law. REGINA RAUXLOH studied first law in Germany and received her LL.M. (in Law and Development) and her PhD from the University of Warwick, UK. She is now senior lecturer at the University of Surrey, UK where she teaches among others international criminal law, public international law, terrorism and law and law of armed conflict. Her research interests lie in International Criminal Law, Corporate Crime, Law of Armed Conflict and Terrorism. Regina is the Director of the Surrey International Law Centre (SILC). She has published work on corporate criminal responsibility in international criminal law, human trafficking, multinational corporations in international criminal law, comparative procedural law and regionalism. She has presented her work in New Zealand, the Untied States, South Korea, Germany, Greece, France and the UK. DANIEL RUHWEZA is a first year MPhil/PhD Candidate from Uganda. His research project, which is supervised by Professor Wade Mansell, Prof. Toni Williams and Dr. Emily Haslam, explores the feasibility of traditional justice mechanisms in the international criminal law regime. Specifically, his case study is the situation concerning the Lord's Resistance Army from Northern Uganda. Daniel obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree with honors from Makerere University, Uganda and completed his Master of Law Degree at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, England. He is a member of the Law Societies of Uganda and East Africa having been called to the Ugandan bar in 2003 as an Advocate of the Courts of Judicature. Daniel’s broader research interests include International Law, law and development, death penalty, good governance, Constitutionalism, Corruption, Environmental law, Criminology, Penology, as well as socio-economic rights. See http://www.kent.ac.uk/law/research/students.html CRAIG RUTTAN is currently an M.A. candidate in International Peace & Security, in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. He completed his Honours B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. Previous projects have taken him to Kenya and Turkey to research and write on issues of transitional justice and conflict resolution, domestic and international security, and inter-communal conflict. His current research focuses on state partition as a peacebuilding and statebuilding strategy. SUSANA SÁCOUTO is Professorial Lecturer-in-Residence at American University Washington College of Law (WCL), where she teaches courses on advanced topics in international criminal law, gender and human rights law and international legal responses to women affected by conflict. She is also director of the War Crimes Research Office (WCRO), which promotes the development and enforcement of international criminal and humanitarian law, and director of WCL’s Summer Law Programme in The Hague, which offers JD and LLM students the opportunity for intensive study in international criminal law in The Hague. Ms. SáCouto’s background includes extensive practical and academic experience in the fields of human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law. Prior to joining the WCRO, Ms. SáCouto directed the Legal Services Programmeat Women Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE), clerked for the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and worked with the Centre for Human Rights Legal Action in Guatemala. She has also served as co-chair of the Women’s International Law Interest Group of the American Society for International Law (2006-2009 term), and was awarded The Women’s Law Centre 22nd Annual Dorothy Beatty Memorial Award for significant contributions to women’s rights. Recent publications include Introductory Note to The International Criminal Court: Appeal of the Prosecutor Against the ‘Decision on the Prosecution’s Application for a Warrant of Arrest against Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir,’ 49 Int’l Legal Materials 922 (2010); The Women’s Protocol to the African Charter and Sexual Violence in the Context of Armed Conflict or Other Mass Atrocity, 16 Wash. & Lee J. of Civ. Rts. & Soc. Just. 173 (Fall 2009) (with Katherine Cleary); The Importance of Effective Investigation of Sexual Violence and Gender-Based Crimes at the International Criminal Court, 17 Am. U. J. Gender, Soc. Pol’y & L. 337 (2009) (with Katherine Cleary); and Victim Participation before the International Criminal Court, 17 Transnat'l L & Contemp. Probs. 73 (2008) (with Katherine Cleary). MAREIKE SCHOMERUS is based at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the Chief Executive Officer of the DfID-funded Research Consortium on Security, Justice and Governance in Conflict-Affected Situations. Since the CPA, she has done extensive fieldwork in southern Sudan, publishing on human security, violence, small arms, civilian-military relations, the impact of democratisation processes on local violence and the Lord's Resistance Army. Her research projects include work for UNICEF, The Carter Centre, the Small Arms Survey, DfID, USAID and Conciliation Resources. Before returning to academia, Mareike trained at Columbia University School of Journalism and worked as a broadcaster for ARD, BBC, Arte and the Discovery Channel, among others. DANIEL MARC SEGESSER is Privatdozent at and responsible for the management of the Department of History at the University of Bern in Switzerland. He studied Modern and Medieval History as well as Modern English Language at the University of Bern, University College in London and the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. He got his PhD from the University of Bern in 1998 with a thesis on „Empire and Total War: Australia 1905-1918’, which was published in German by Schöningh in 2002. From 1996 to 1999 he was part of a research project conducted by Professor Stig Förster on „Military Journals and the International Debate on Past and Future Warfare, 1918-1939’. From 2001 to 2006 he was responsible for his own research project on ‘Law and War: The International Debate on the Punishment of War Crimes in the Context of the Two World Wars of the 20th Century in Europe’. The result was a study, which in 2006 was accepted as habilitation-thesis by the Arts Faculty of the University of Bern. In 2010 Schöningh published it in German under the title Recht statt Rache oder Rache durch Recht? Die Ahndung von Kriegsverbrechen in der internationalen wissenschaftlichen Debatte 1872-1945. His further research interests include the history of international law itself, the Nuremberg Trials, World War I, especially in a global perspective, the military history of France and Belgium in the inter-war period as well as the history of imperialism especially regarding India and Thailand in the 19th century. Apart from the two studies already mentioned and his Der Erste Weltkrieg in globaler Perspektive (Wiesbaden 2010) publications include a great number of articles in German, English and French that deal with the history of international law, of World War I and of the inter-war period. Further information under: www.hist.unibe.ch/content/personal/segesser_daniel_marc/index.html NIAZ SHAH joined the University of Hull Law School as a lecturer in November 2006. He obtained his PhD from Queen's University Belfast in 2005. From January 2006, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge. Dr Shah’s areas of research interest are Public International Law (Human Rights, Self-defence, Humanitarian Law, Refugee Law) and Islamic Law. His research interests by region include Pakistan and Afghanistan. His publications include Islamic Law and the Law of Armed Conflict: The Armed Conflict in Pakistan (2011); Self-defense in Islamic and International Law: Assessing Al-Qaeda and the Invasion of Iraq (2008); Women, the Koran and International Human Rights Law: The Experience of Pakistan (2006). ISLAM MD SHAHINUR has been Registrar (District Judge) at the International Crimes Tribunal, Bangladesh since April 2010. Born in an educated family in the district of Pabna in 1958, he received his college education in Notre Dame College, Dhaka, and graduated in law from the University of Rajshahi in 1982, standing first in that class. He joined the judiciary of Bangladesh in 1983, and for the last ten years has served as the District and Sessions Judge. He has also served as the Judge of the Administrative Tribunal, Dhaka, as well as serving as Director (on deputation) in the Office of the Prime Minister (2000-2001), where he dealt with anti-corruption issues. He is one of the senior members of the Bangladesh Judicial Service, and is first vice president (2011) of the Judicial Service Association. He also holds an adjunct faculty position in the University of Stamford, Bangladesh. He has published in a number of local journals on legal issues, and has participated in many workshops, seminars and international protocol meetings at home and abroad on violence against women, alternative dispute resolution, legal aid, case management and court administration, and human rights issues. is the President of INHURED International, the first Nepali organization to enjoy Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. It has functioned for the last two decades as the leading human rights NGO in South Asia and is currently a leader in the campaign to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Nepal. Dr. Siwakoti himself is a former political prisoner and torture survivor, he is now one of the well-known human rights defenders in Asia. He was awarded an Honorary Kingian Nonviolence Advocate for Promoting Global Peace Award by Rhode Island University in July 2010 and a National Peace Award in on the same year testifying to his international profile in advancing the cause of peace and transitional justice. In 2007, he worked as Coordinator of the Peace Audit Program: Monitoring Comprehensive Peace across the country. He currently serves as an International Observer in Asian countries on behalf of Asian Network for Free Elections as well as maintaining his role in INHURED International. Since 1999, he has been a Member of the International Advisory Board for the Hague Appeal for Peace in New York, and a Patron of Amnesty International in Nepal. From 2004-2006, he was a coordinator of the 24 Hour Human Rights Life-Line on Conflict Monitoring and Reporting to address critical incidences of rights violations. In 2010, he has been elected as a Deputy Chair of the Asia-Pacific Refugee Rights Network dedicated on refugee rights. Author of various books and reports on human rights and peace, he is also the producer of a UN-funded transitional justice related film titled ‘Journey to Justice’. He has been a guest presenter in different universities abroad on transitional justice, forced migration and peace audit. GOPAL KRISHNA SIWAKOTI is the President of INHURED International, the first Nepali organization to enjoy Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. It has functioned for the last two decades as the leading human rights NGO in South Asia, and is currently a leader in the campaign to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Nepal. Dr Siwokoti himself is a former political prisoner and torture survivor, he is now one of the leading human rights defenders in Asia. He was awarded an Honorary Kingian Nonviolence Advocate for Promoting Global Peace Award by Rhode Island University in July 2010, testifying to his international profile in advancing the cause of peace and transitional justice. In 2007, he worked as Coordinator of the Peace Audit Programme: Monitoring Comprehensive Peace across the country. He currently serves as an International Observer in Asian countries on behalf of Asian Network for Free Elections as well as maintaining his role in INHURED International. Since 1999, he has been a Member of the International Advisory Board for the Hague Appeal for Peace in New York, and a Patron of Amnesty International in Nepal. From 2004-2006, he was a coordinator of the 24 Hour Human Rights Life-Line on Conflict Monitoring and Reporting to address critical incidences of rights violations. In 2010, he has been elected as a Deputy Chair of the Asia-Pacific Refugee Rights Network dedicated on refugee rights. 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