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- RORY STEWART
- SILKE STUDZISKY
- SIMONA TOBIA
- JAMES WALLER
- CISSA WA NUMBE
- GILLIAN WIGGLESWORTH
- DEWI WILLIAMS
ASA SOLWAY currently lives in The Hague, Netherlands and is completing work as an expert legal consultant with the Defense Team representing Charles Taylor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone. He also serves as a Research Fellow with the International Criminal Law Bureau and is preparing reports to be submitted to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) focusing on the rights of convicted persons following the closure of the Tribunal. Mr. Solway obtained his J.D. from University of California, Berkeley Law. While earning his law degree, he interned with the United States Department of State, Office of Legal Counsel, where he assisted in submissions to the International Court of Justice and with the ICTY in the Office of the President and with a defence team. Mr. Solway’s other primary interest is development and traditional justice/customary law. After graduation, Asa completed a post-doctoral year with Berkeley as a legal fellow in the Government of Sierra Leone. With the Anti-Corruption Commission, as an investigator and lawyer, he assisted in drafting indictments and conducting investigations. Working also with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he compiled the Common Core Document for submission to the UN Treaty Bodies and contributed to policy reform in the area of provincial land law. He has conducted consultancies in the field of legal empowerment and customary law. RORY STEWART is MP for Penrith and the Borders, in the Conservative interest, and also has an academic, military and Foreign Office background. He served as a diplomat in both Indonesia and the Balkans, and was a senior coalition official in Iraq 2003-2004. He was appointed a Fellow at the Carr Centre for Human Rights, Harvard University, in 2004, and as the Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights, and Director of the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University in 2008, and retains links with the University after his retirement in March 2010 to go into British politics. Rory helped to establish the Afghan NGO, the Turquoise Mountain Foundation in 2006, which he still supports. His publications include Prince of the Marshes (2006) and The Places in Between (2004). SILKE STUDZISKY has been working for more than 17 years as a criminal defense lawyer and as a legal representative for civil parties before criminal courts in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. One of her main working areas is fostering the rights of victims of sexual violence, sexual abuse, trafficking and racial discrimination in and outside of courtrooms. She joined the ‘Association of European Democratic Lawyers’ in 2000 and acted as their Secretary General from 2005 until the end of 2007. She organized and participated in several human rights missions and trial observations and delegations in Turkey, Spain, Greece, Israel, South Korea and Kashmir. In 2006, she was admitted as counsel at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. Since February 2008, she has been working with the support of the Civil Peace Service of the German Development Organization DED (now GIZ) in Cambodia to represent Civil Parties before the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC). Until 2009, she was the Senior Legal Advisor to the Khmer Rouge Tribunal Programmeof the Cambodian Human Rights Organization ADHOC, and she currently holds the same position in another Cambodian NGO,, Legal Aid of Cambodia. She has been the only international lawyer who has been permanently based in Phnom Penh since the beginning of civil party participation. LYAL SUNGA was the Raoul Wallenburg Insitute's first Director of Research and has been Senior Lecturer (January 2005 - December 2009) at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Lund, Sweden. He is a specialist on international human rights law, international humanitarian law and international criminal law and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Carleton), Bachelor of Laws (Osgoode Hall Law School), Master of Laws in International Human Rights Law (Essex) and PhD in International Law (The Graduate Institute of International Studies). Before joining the Raoul Wallenberg Institute, he taught at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law and served as Director of the Master of Laws Programme in Human Rights (2001-2005). He has also given conference presentations, university courses, lectures and training in more than 40 countries. From 1994-2001, Dr. Sunga worked for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, first to assist in the investigation of facts and responsibilities relating to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda for the UN Security Council's Commission of Experts on Rwanda, to draft the Commission's report recommending the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and then on the establishment of the UN Human Rights Field Operation in Rwanda and on human rights issues relating to the establishment of the International Criminal Court, terrorism, redress for violations of international human rights and humanitarian law, impunity, the death penalty, human rights defenders and the administration of justice. In 2007, he served as Coordinator for the UN Human Rights Council's Group of Experts on Darfur and over the last 20 years, he has worked with the UN Security Council, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the ILO, UNDP, UNU, UNHCR, UNITAR and the UNODC. Sunga has authored two books on international criminal law and publishes widely on such issues as the use of force in international relations, humanitarian intervention, truth and national reconciliation, human security, the role of NGOs in human rights monitoring and the Human Rights Council's special procedures. SIMONA TOBIA currently works at the School of Languages and European Studies of the University of Reading, where she contributes to the AHRC project 'Languages at War’. She is developing an interest on war and culture in the Twentieth century in general, and more specifically on the role of languages and interrogations in encounters with the enemy during war and occupation. Publications in this field include: ‘Crime and judgement. Interpreters/Translators in British war crimes trials, 1945-1949’, in The Translator’s Special Issue ‘Translation and Violent Conflict’, vol. 16, N. 2, 2010 and ‘Questioning the Nazis: languages and effectiveness in British war crimes investigations and trials in Germany, 1945-1948’, in Journal of War and Culture Studies, vol. 3, n 1, 2010, pp. 123-136. Simona is the author of Advertising America: The United States Information Service in Italy (1945-1956), a monograph on the cultural and diplomatic relations between the United States and Italy in the Cold War. Her recent publications in this fiels include: ‘Advertising America: VOA and Italy’, in Cold War History’s Special Issue ‘Europe Americanized? Popular Reception of Western Cold War Propaganda’, vol. 11, n. 1, February 2011; ‘International Broadcasting, la guerra nell’etere. Voice of America e BBC World Service’ in Problemi dell’informazione. Trimestrale di media e comunicazione, Il Mulino, n. 2, 2008, pp. 222-250. IVA VUKUSIC is currently working at the Sense News Agency in The Hague where she manages the archive containing the footage and documents from war crimes trials held at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Before moving to The Netherlands Iva worked in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina for three years, as an analyst at the Special War Crimes Department of the State Prosecutor’s office and as a project manager at the Research and Documentation Centre. She holds a bachelors degree in political science from Zagreb University and a masters in human rights from the University of Bologna, Italy and the University of Sarajevo. Currently Iva is also working on a project called Pictures of Peace and Justice: Documentation, Evidence and Impact of Visual Material in International War Crimes Prosecution at King’s College London, UK; the project being led by professor James Gow. In the past five years, she participated in numerous conferences and panel discussions around Europe and the United States, speaking on war crimes prosecution in the former Yugoslavia, transitional justice and, more broadly, post-conflict human rights related topics. JAMES WALLER is Professor and Cohen Chair of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College (NH). Keene State College is home to the Cohen Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, one of the nation’s oldest Holocaust resource Centres, and also offers the only undergraduate major in Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the United States. Waller is a widely-recognized scholar in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies and, in addition to holding visiting professorships at the Technical University in Berlin (1990) and the Catholic University in Eichstatt, Germany (1992), has been an invited participant in international seminars hosted by the Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust Studies at the University of Leicester in England (2006); the Institute of Sociology at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland (2007 and 2008); the Bundeszentrale fur politische Bildung in Berlin, Germany (2009); the VU University Amsterdam in the Netherlands (2009); and the University of Alberta in Canada (2010). Waller has been awarded summer fellowships by, and been a teaching fellow with, the Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University (1996 and 2007-2011) and at the Centre for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (1999, 2003, and 2005). His fieldwork has included research in Northern Ireland, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia. Waller is also regularly involved, in his continuing role as an Affiliated Scholar with the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation, as the curriculum developer and an instructor for the Raphael Lemkin Seminar for Genocide Prevention. These seminars, held on-site and in conjunction with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, introduce mid-level government officials from around the world to issues of genocide warning and prevention. In the policymaking arena, Waller has delivered invited briefings on genocide prevention and perpetrator behavior in atrocities in Africa for the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the CIA Directorate of Intelligence as well as leading education and training in genocide prevention for the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. In addition to three books (one of which has been released in a revised and updated second edition), Waller has published twenty-nine articles in peer-reviewed professional journals and contributed eighteen chapters in edited books. Waller’s book on perpetrators of genocide, Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing (Oxford University Press, 2002), was praised by Publisher’s Weekly for ‘clearly and effectively synthesizing a wide range of studies to develop an original and persuasive model of the process by which people can become evil.’ In addition to being used as a textbook in college and university courses around the world, Becoming Evil also was short-listed for the biennial Raphael Lemkin Award from the International Association of Genocide Scholars and was released by Oxford in a revised and updated second edition in March 2007. CISSA WA NUMBE, a native Congolese, was born in a village of Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo where he grew up in a poor family. Cissa began his education at primary and secondary Catholic and Methodist College in Kivu and now holds a degrees in Sociology and Anthropology from University of Lubumbashi, DRC; and an MA in Peace and Human Rights Studies from the University of Bradford (UK). He has attended and participated in, as an African representative of civil society and Non Governmental Organisations, a number of international conferences including the United Nations General Assembly Hearing in June 2005 in New York, where he contributed as a member of the Freedom From Fear cluster. Cissa has been a key speaker and facilitator of the International Human Rights seminars jointly organised by United Nations Human Rights Council and the World Federation of United Nations Associations 'WFUNA' in Geneva, July 2007 and July –August 208. He has also been speaker to the Barcelona international conference on International Development and Aid to Africa last October 2008. He also has, as adviser to the UN Secretary General's special representative to UN-Africa Union, led the International Conference for Peace, Security and Development for the Great Lakes Region of Africa as well as participating in and contributing to all experts and inter ministerial regional meetings and to the heads of state and government peace, security, democracy and development summit in Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya In March 2005, Cissa served as a panellist and speaker during "UN60": A time for Renewal" a gathering of UN advocates at the UN HQ in New York. He has also served as a judge for the International Service Human Rights Nomination Awards 2004 in London, UK; and as a committee member representing African civil society to UN World Summit on Environment and Development 'UNCED' in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1992. Cissa won the nationwide Awards for Voluntary Endeavours in UK 2006. He has presented lectures, presentations and speeches at numerous universities and international conference on issues of human rights, peace, conflict prevention and resolution, gender equality, children's rights, debts, North-South relationships and humanitarian situations including to the House of Commons in London in 2000. This makes Cissa an ideal speaker to provide insights into the complexities of human rights, peace, and conflict resolution and development particularly regarding Africa and DR Congo, as he was a Prisoner of Conscience and subsequently imprisoned for over three months during the administrations of both Presidents Mobutu and Kabila. Cissa recovered his freedom due to his connections with and the interventions of United Nations and other human rights international organizations. Since 2000, Cissa has lived in safety but he continues to work relentlessly for human rights, health, and peace for the Democratic Republic of Congo. Cissa had been Secretary and Vice Chair of both the National Council of Civil Society, Congo and the Regional Council of NGOs of South – Kivu. Currently Cissa Wa Numbe is the Secretary General and Director of the United Nations Association of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (UNA-DRC). UNA-DRC has three offices located in the cities of Kinshasa, Goma, and Bukavu, D.R. Congo. GILLIAN WIGGLESWORTH is an academic historian and a barrister who has taught at various leading universities both in England and America. She was a former international law intern at Chatham House and has been associated with the Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research programme at Harvard University and the European University Institute in Florence. She has contributed to the online Oxford International Law Reports in the international human rights field, as well as writing an article in International Affairs on developments at the Special Court of Sierra Leone. Currently working on various projects and papers for different universities and organizations in Europe and the UK. DEWI WILLIAMS is Research and Enterprise Manager in the Law School, Staffordshire University. He is a senior lecturer, with a specialism in European law JEANNE M WOODS is the Henry F. Bonura, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Law at Loyola University College of Law in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she teaches Public International Law, The Law of International Trade, International Human Rights, and Law and Poverty. In 2004 she was a J. William Fulbright Lecturer at China University of Political Science and Law in Beijing, Peoples’ Republic of China. Her publications include Human Rights and the Global Marketplace: economic, social and cultural dimensions, with Hope Lewis (2005); ‘Anticipatory Self-Defense and Other Stories,’ Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy (2005); ‘Emerging Paradigms of Protection for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,’ Loyola Public Interest Law Journal (2005);’Justiciable Social Rights as a Critique of the Liberal Paradigm,’ Texas International Law Journal (2003); ‘Rights as Slogans: A Theory of Human Rights Based on African Humanism,’ National Black Law Journal (2003); ‘Reconciling Reconciliation,’ UCLA Journal of Int'l Law and Foreign Affairs (1998)(critique of South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission); ‘The Fallacy of Neutrality: Diary of an Election Observer,’ Michigan Journal Int'l Law (1997)(analysis of South African elections);’Travel That Talks: Toward First Amendment Protection for Freedom of Movement,’ George Washington Law Review (1996); ‘Presidential Legislating in the Post-Cold War Era: A Critique of the Barr Opinion on Extraterritorial Arrests,’ Boston Univ. J. Int'l L. (1996); Human Rights Violations in the United States: A report on United States Compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Human Rights Watch and American Civil Liberties Union (1993) (coeditor); ‘Ending the Cold War at Home,’ Foreign Policy (Winter 1990-91) (with Morton Halperin); and ‘Legal Responsibilities of States with Respect to Apartheid,’ United Nations Centre Against Apartheid (1983). Prior to entering academia, Professor Woods served as Legislative Counsel for the national legislative office of the American Civil Liberties Union in Washington, D.C., focusing on issues related to national security and civil liberties. She provided legal analysis of constitutional issues in pending federal legislation and administrative regulations; drafted legislation, amendments, and committee report language; prepared and delivered testimony before congressional committees; and lobbied members of Congress and executive branch officials on policies affecting civil liberties. Her successes include the enactment of legislation prohibiting ideological visa denials, discontinuing the censorship of educational films, and prohibiting the revocation of passports on political grounds. In 1985 Professor Woods organized a United Nations-sponsored tour of southern Africa to investigate and document South African destabilization of the ‘Frontline’ States. She served as an accredited international observer of the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994, and as an international monitor of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission in June 1997. 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