Biographies/Biografías

Zahira Araguete-Toribio is a PhD candidate in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths University of London. Her research focuses on different forms of scientific, historical and social identification endeavors in connection to the exhumation of the bodies of the Spanish Civil War and postwar dead, in the southwestern region of Extremadura. With a special interest on ideas of evidence production and temporality, she investigates the intersection between different types of knowledge (familial, archaeological, legal) and their connection to the cultural materiality of conflict. Her work also involves the use of video and photographic material as analytic tools to carry out her research. She is also a research assistant and conference coordinator in the ERC funded project Bosnian Bones Spanish Ghosts, at the Anthropology Department in Goldsmiths.
Web Link: http://www.gold.ac.uk/anthropology/current-students/zahiraaraguete/ 
Contact: z.araguete@gold.ac.uk

Dr Damir Arsenijevic is a literary scholar and cultural theorist. He is a Leverhulme Fellow at De Montfort University, UK, leading the research project 'Love after Genocide', and Associate Professor at Tuzla University, English Department. In 2011-2012, he was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley, Department of Rhetoric. Dr Arsenijevic is the founder of Psychoanalytic Seminar Tuzla.

Web Link: http://untz.academia.edu/DamirArsenijevic

Contact: arsenijevicd@gmail.com

Christian Axboe Nielsen is Associate Professor of Southeast European Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.  He is currently working on a history of the the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Socialist Yugoslavia.  In addition to his academic research, Nielsen has worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the International Criminal Court and the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and has testified as an expert witness in several trials.
Web Link: http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/christian-axboe-nielsen(edf4bb99-d66c-447a-89bd-40fa47a75f1d)/cv.html?id=32506874
Contact: christian.a.nielsen@hum.au.dk

Gabriella Citroni, (ph.D.) is professor of International Human Rights Law at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy. She is also senior legal advisor of the Swiss NGO TRIAL (Swiss Association against Impunity) and acts as the international legal advisor for the Latin American Federation of Associations of Relatives of Disappeared People (FEDEFAM).  She researches in particular on subjects related to international human rights law and, on a part time basis, she cooperates with a number of international NGOs providing legal assistance to victims of serious human rights violations and their relatives in different countries including Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Nepal, Morocco, Iraq and Mexico.
Contact: gabriella.citroni@trial-ch.org           

Sahana Dharmapuri is an independent gender advisor with fifteen years of experience providing policy advice and training on gender, peace, and security issues to USAID, NATO, The Swedish Armed Forces, the United States Institute for Peace, International Peace Institute, development consulting firms, and a number of NGOs.  She has lectured and led trainings on gender and security issues at a wide variety of institutions including, The Swedish Armed Forces International Training Center for work in Peace Support Operations in Stockholm, USAID Missions, Harvard University, Tufts University, the United States Institute for Peace, the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, and at three of the major U.S. combat and command centers. Her field experience includes Liberia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Jordan, Israel and the West Bank, India, Uzbekistan, Turkey, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. She received a Masters Degree in Middle East Studies and a Masters Degree in Public Policy from the University of Chicago in 1997, and her BA from The University of Chicago in Anthropology in 1992. Her writing has appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Human Rights Quarterly, The Global Responsibility to Protect Journal, The Global Observatory, and Parameters: The Senior Professional Journal of the US Army.
Web Link: http://www.thegenderadvisor.com
Contact: sahana_dharmapuri@hks.harvard.edu

Laila Fathi is a third year Law PhD student at SOAS. Her PhD Thesis is titled  "Re-thinking transitional justice in a post-colonial context - analysis of the Franco-Algerian war and the reconciliation process". She has an MA in European Business law from Pantheon - Sorbonne University and a LLM in International Law from SOAS and is a member of the Maghreb academic network. She is also working on questions of transition in North Africa, notably focusing on Algeria and Morocco. She is very much interested on question of collective memory and the extent to which they participate in the formation of national identities, which is fundamental for her broader discussion on the design of transitional schemes.
Web Link: http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff66312.php
Contact: Laila_fathi@soas.ac.uk

Tobias Flessenkemper is a senior policy and strategy advisor and analyst working in the area of the EU Common and Foreign and Security Policy since 2003. Currently he is a Visiting Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, EU External Relations Division, in Berlin. After having served in the EU mission in Skopje 2004, he joined the European Union Police Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2005 where he served as Senior Policy Advisor to the Head of Mission. Previously he worked for the German Foreign Office, OSCE, UNICEF and the European Commission on South East European and EU enlargement issues. From 1996 to 2001, he was Secretary General of the European Youth Forum and of the Young European Federalists advocating for the participation of young people in EU and global affairs. In these functions he served on several European Community and intergovernmental bodies. Mr Flessenkemper has a significant record of policy work, scholarship and invited presentations with a focus on EU integration, EU foreign, security and defense policies; democratization and peace-building, crisis response and conflict transformation and EU-Western Balkans relations. He graduated as Magister Artium (M.A) in political science from the University of Cologne and holds a European Master in International Humanitarian Assistance (E.MA) from the University of Bochum. He is a Board Member of the South East Europe Association (Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft), Munich, Germany.

Web Link:                                       

http://www.swp-berlin.org/en/scientist-detail/profile/tobias_flessenkemper.html

Contact: tobias.flessenkemper@swp-berlin.org

Safet HadžiMuhamedović is a Research Assistant on the BBSG Project, as well as a Doctoral Candidate and Visiting Tutor in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research looks at landscapes and memory in Bosnia, particularly the shared harvest rituals in the south-eastern part of the country. Safet holds degrees in Anthropology, Sociology and History of Art from the universities of Cambridge, Sarajevo and Kenyon College.
Web Link: http://www.gold.ac.uk/anthropology/current-students/safethadimuhamedovi/
Contact: anp01sh@gold.ac.uk

Elissa Helms, a cultural anthropologist, is Associate Professor in the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary. Her research and teaching interests revolve around gender and nationalism, postconflict and postsocialist transformations, and representations of the Balkans and Muslim societies. She is the author of Innocence and Victimhood: Gender, Nation, and Women’s Activism in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina (University of Wisconsin Press, forthcoming 2013) and co-editor, with Xavier Bougarel and Ger Duijzings, of The New Bosnian Mosaic: Identities, Memories, and Moral Claims in a Post-war Society (Ashgate, 2007).
Web Link: http://people.ceu.hu/elissa_helms
Contact: helmse@ceu.hu

Emir Hodzic is human rights activist from Prijedor. He has been involved in peace movements internationally, and is one of the founders of the initiative "Because I Care" in Bosnia Herzegovina, as well as an activist of the Stop Genocide Denial. Stop Genocide Denial has market the first International White Armband day in Prijedor in 2012, and the initiative Jer Me Se Tice has performed a number of activities with Bosnian youth in 2013 focusing on civil victims and demanding recognition of crimes against civilians.
Contact: ehodzic@gmail.com

Refik Hodzic joined ICTJ as director of communications in March 2011. For almost two decades, Hodzic has worked in transitional justice as a journalist, filmmaker as well as an expert in public information and outreach campaigns for international and national courts seeking justice for war crimes. He has focused on post-war justice and media primarily in the former Yugoslavia, Lebanon, and Timor-Leste. Before his current role at ICTJ he consulted for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL), where he developed recommendations for the STL’s outreach strategy and helped implement several high-impact projects. While working with the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia from 2000–2004 and 2006–2010, he served as the tribunal’s spokesman and outreach coordinator for Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also headed the public information and outreach section of the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he developed a comprehensive public information and outreach strategy for the court and the state prosecutor’s office. In 2004, Hodzic co-founded XY Films, an independent film and television production company producing documentary films dealing with the legacy of war crimes committed during the 1990s. His work includes “Living the Legacy of Mass Atrocities: Victims’ Perceptions of War Crimes Trials,” Journal of International Criminal Justice (2010), Statement 710399, documentary, XY productions (2006), and Justice Unseen, documentary, XY productions (2004).
Web Link: http://ictj.org/about/refik-hodzic
Contact: rhodzic@ictj.org

Adil Hossain is a student of MA Development and Rights at Goldsmiths, University of London. He joined the Anthropology department at Goldsmiths this year on a Commonwealth Shared Scholarship. He is an intern at Media Standards Trust, London. He is interested in issues related to human rights, anthropology, media and international relations. Presently he is working on the topic of "Transitional justice in Gujarat: Democracy and Development talk as obstacle. He can be tweeted@adilhossain.
Web Link: http://goldsmiths.academia.edu/AdilHossain
Contact: an204mh@gold.ac.uk
   

Nerma Jelacic is a journalist and post-conflict justice activist currently working as Head of Communications for the UN ICTY. With over 15 years of experience working in international media, NGOs and judicial institutions, her work has focused on the role of the media and civil society in dealing with the past. Nerma is one of the founders of the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN, a regional NGO promoting public interest journalism and media development. She established a series of award-winning media outlets dedicated to reporting on and investigating the legacies of Yugoslav wars and promoting the principles of dealing with the past. Nerma was a British-based journalist in the 90s, working most notably for The Observer, The Telegraph and The Financial Times where she covered developments in post-conflict and developing world. She is a seasoned investigative reporter specialising in the subject of war crimes and organised crime. In recent months she has worked with the media, civil society and judiciary from Uganda, Kenya, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya and Yemen.
Contact: jelacic@un.org  

Admir Jugo has been working as a Forensic Archaeologist and Anthropologist on exhuming human remains from mass graves and other exhumation sites in the territory of the Former Yugoslavia, primarily Bosnia and Herzegovina since 2007. His research focuses on biological anthropology of human remains, but also on the process of transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Spain, forensic archaeology and scientific and social aspects of exhumations and mass graves.  That is to say, that while working as a scientifically trained specialist in practice, his intellectual work also encompasses a concern for the social implications of mass atrocities and violations of human rights. Admir holds a degree in Biology from the University of Sarajevo and is currently working towards his Master’s in Genetics from the same university. Admir also works on the examination of human skeletal remains, their identification and the collection of bone samples for DNA analysis. He has also helped in the development of training programmes for the Archaeology and Anthropology Division of ICMP, and has provided training for both ICMP and non-ICMP staff. Admir's most recent publications include the co-authored papers Disassembling the Pieces, Reassembling the Social: The Forensic and Political Lives of Secondary Mass Graves in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in press, and Missing Persons, Ossuaries and Societal Safety - When Security and Justice Have No Gender 2013, SOC/EUPM.
Contact: admir.jugo@gmail.com

Dr. Christopher K. Lamont is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Groningen and Co-Chair of Research in Ethics and Globalisation. He is also a researcher at the Center for Maghrib Studies in Tunis (CEMAT). Previously, Dr. Lamont was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Zagreb in Croatia. He is the author of International Criminal Justice and the Politics of Compliance (Ashgate 2010) and has published widely on transitional justice.

Web Link: http://www.rug.nl/staff/c.k.lamont/
Contact: c.k.lamont@rug.nl 

Chandra Lekha Sriram is Professor of International Law and International Relations at the University of East London, School of Law and Social Sciences.  She is co-Director of the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict (www.uel.ac.uk/chrc<http://www.uel.ac.uk/chrc>) and co-Director of a research project funded by the ESRC and NWO on the Impact of Transitional Justice Measures on Democratic Institution-building.  She has written widely on conflict prevention, resolution, and peacebuilding, and transitional justice and international criminal justice.

Web Link: http://www.uel.ac.uk/lss/staff/sriramchandralekha/

Contact: c.sriram@uel.ac.uk

Nicolas Moll is historian and consultant in the fields of intercultural cooperation and dealing with the past. He holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the University of Freiburg i.Br. He lives in Sarajevo since 2007. His research and working area include the history and memory of European conflicts in the 20th century, with a special focus on the Western Balkans and on the French-German relations. He is coordinator of “Memory Lab – Trans-European Exchange Platform for a Critical Understanding of History and Remembrance”.

Contact: moll.nicolas@gmail.com

Jorge Moreno Andrés is an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker currently studying towards a doctoral degree in anthropology at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) under the auspices of the “Scientific and educational films in Spain, Argentina and Uruguay” project. During the last three years, Jorge has carried out fieldwork in Spain, investigating historical memory themes from an audiovisual perspective. He currently collaborates with the project "All names from the postwar repression in Ciudad Real”. For two years he has filmed witnesses’ accounts and testimonies extensively, turned into various short films dealing with issues concerning trauma and mourning. In 2011, he was awarded the first prize in the Castilla la Mancha Festival (Spain) for his short film Vuelo a Shangrila (Flying to Shangri-la). He is also a visual consultant for the Bosnian Bones Spanish Ghosts (BBSG) project.

Web Link: http://jorgemorenoandres.blogspot.com.es

Contact: jorgemorenoandres@hotmail.com

Vjeran Pavlaković is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Rijeka, Croatia. He received his Ph.D. in History in 2005 from the University of Washington, and has published articles on the politics of memory, World War Two commemorations in the former Yugoslavia, the impact of the ICTY on domestic politics, and Yugoslavs in the Spanish Civil War. Recent publications include “Twilight of the Revolutionaries: Naši Španci and the End of Yugoslavia” in Europe-Asia Studies (September 2010), “Croatia, the ICTY, and General Gotovina as a Political Symbol,” Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 62, No. 10 (December 2010), and “Symbols and the Culture of Memory in Republika Srpska Krajina,” Nationalities Papers (2013).  He is also a co-editor of the book Confronting the Past: European Experiences (2012) and is a lead researcher of the project Strategies of Symbolic Nation-Building in the Western Balkans.

Web Link: http://ffri.academia.edu/VjeranPavlakovic
Contact: vjeranp@gmail.com

Maja Petrović Šteger received her PhD from University of Cambridge and was a Peterhouse Research Fellow. Her work - in Serbia, Tasmania and Switzerland - pursues several different research interests grouped, for the most part, in conflict and post-conflict studies, studies of the politics of reconciliation, the anthropology of the body, the anthropology of death, the anthropology of health and healing, and more recently accounts of consciousness and of paranoia. Together with Jeanette Edwards she has edited "Recasting Anthropological Knowledge: Inspiration and Social Science" (2011, CUP).

Web Link: http://cambridge.academia.edu/MajaPetrovićŠteger

Contact: mp333@cam.ac.uk

Nina Schneider holds a Marie Curie Postdoc Fellowship at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz, in Germany. She obtained a PhD in History from the University of Essex, UK, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (ISHR) at Columbia University. She is particularly interested in authoritarian regimes and their multifaceted roots, practices and legacies; the history of human rights; the engaged intellectual; and propaganda. Recent publications include: ‘ “Too little too late” or “premature”? The Brazilian Truth Commission and the Question of “best timing” ‘, Journal of Iberian and Latin-American Research, vol. 19, no. 1 (2013), 149-162, and ‘Waiting for (an) “Apology”: Has Post-Authoritarian Brazil Apologized for State Repression?’, Journal of Human Rights (forthcoming 2013/2014).

Web Link:

https://www.zukunftskolleg.uni-konstanz.de/postdoctoral-fellows/personen-details/schneider-nina-1918/6338/2415/

Contact: nina.schneider@uni-konstanz.de

Dr. Noa Vaisman is an International Junior Research Fellow (JRF) and a Marie Curie Fellow at Durham University Law School and DGSI. An anthropologist trained at Cornell University (Ph.D. 2008), her work examines processes of social reconstruction in the long aftermath of the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). While at Durham University, she will be completing a book manuscript that centers on the identification of young adults who were abducted by the dictatorial regime in Argentina and raised for most of their lives without knowledge of their biological origins and traumatic history. This project is part of her broader research interests that focus on the impact of new technologies on human rights law and practice.

Web Link: https://www.dur.ac.uk/research/directory/staff/?mode=staff&id=10858
Contact: noa.vaisman@durham.ac.uk 

Sari Wastell lectures in Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, but has also taught at Cambridge (where she took her PhD in Social Anthropology) and Edinburgh (where she studied both Law and Anthropology and completed her first degree to MA level, offering a dissertation on Basque nationalism and memory politics). At Goldsmiths, her teaching focuses on social theory and the anthropology of rights, although her own research interests centre on international criminal law, 'transitional justice' and an anthropology of international relations and conflict management. She is the Bosnian Bones Spanish Ghosts (BBSG) principal investigator.

Web Link: http://www.gold.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/s-wastell/

Contact: s.wastell@gold.ac.uk