Adebisi Alade
Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor in the Department of History at the University of Victoria, Canada. His teaching and research interests are in African history, British imperial history, urban history, and histories of environment, health, and medicine in the colonial world. Before joining UVic, he was a Trillium Scholar in the History Department at McMaster University and a Water Without Borders scholar at the United Nations University - Institute for Water, Environment, and Health, where he studied International Policy Development. Adebisi is currently working on his first book manuscript, which examines how subaltern politics and resistance in colonial Nigeria shaped public health programs designed to transform Africans into “environmentally responsible subjects” in the first half of the twentieth century. He’s an active member of Participedia, a global scholarly network on democratic innovation, and a pioneering member of the Nigerian Health Historians Network.
Ana Alonso
Muhammad Asadullah
Dr. Muhammad Asadullah is an Assistant Professor at the University of Regina's Department of Justice Studies. Prior to joining UofR, he taught at Simon Fraser University, the University of the Fraser Valley, and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. He completed his PhD as well as a Masters in Criminology from Simon Fraser University, Canada. He also holds a Masters in Conflict Transformation from Eastern Mennonite University, USA. He is the recipient of multiple awards and scholarships, including Neekaneewak Indigenous Leadership Awards, Contemplative Social Justice Scholar Award, ACJS Doctoral Fellowship Award, C.D. Nelson Memorial Award, Liz Elliott Memorial Graduate Scholarship, President's PhD Scholarship, Provost Prize of Distinction, and Law Foundation Scholarship in Restorative Justice. Currently, he serves as a board member of Circles of Support and Accountability, South Saskatchewan (ww.cosass.ca) and Saskatchewan Restorative Justice Network. He is also on the Advisory Committee of Simon Fraser University's Centre for Restorative Justice (http://www.sfu.ca/crj.html). Previously, he was on the board of the Vancouver Association for Restorative Justice, Salish Sea Empathy Society and the Communities Embracing Restorative Action. Asadullah is a certified Nonviolent Communication (NVC) trainer and offers workshops on compassionate communication, self-empathy, and contemplative practice in community, prison, and academic settings. To showcase his work, Asadullah has participated in a number of international trainings and conferences in Bangladesh, Canada, China, Italy, Malaysia, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, UK and USA. Dr. Asadullah is deeply grateful to the Elders in Treaty-4 territory who guided him to walk on this land with humility and respect.
Leonzo Barreno
Leonzo Barreno, PhD (University of Saskatchewan), is a K’iche’ Mayan from Guatemala and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies, University of Saskatchewan. His doctoral research was on the survival and continuity of Mayan spirituality in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. His research and teaching experience focus on Mayan peoples, international Indigenous issues and movements, colonialism, social justice, genocide, and Indigenous sociology. He taught at the Saskatchewan Indian Federated College (1997 – 2004); School of Journalism, University of Regina (2003 – 2019); and Mount Royal University (2019 – 2022). Leonzo delivered presentations in Chile, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Mexico, and at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington. He is the author of Higher Education for Indigenous people in Latin America (2003) used as a working document by IESALC-UNESCO/Latin America during the gathering of experts in Guatemala in April 2002. In May 2016, he moderated the workshop “Global Citizens as Stewards of the Planet: Energy, Environment and Climate Change,” Sixty-sixth United Nations/Non-Governmental Organizations Conference, United Nations Department of Public Information (DPI)/Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) in Gyeongju, South Korea.
Marshall Beier
Marshall Beier is Professor of Political Science at McMaster University and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Critical Studies on Security. In his current research he investigates issues around children’s political subjecthood, visual and affective economies of children in abject circumstances, and imagined childhood as a technology of global governance. His publications include: Children, Childhoods, and Global Politics, ed. with Helen Berents (Bristol University Press forthcoming 2023); Childhoods in Peace and Conflict, ed. with Jana Tabak (Palgrave Macmillan 2021); Discovering Childhood in International Relations, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); Childhood and the Production of Security, ed. (Routledge, 2017); The Militarization of Childhood: Thinking Beyond the Global South, ed. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 2014). His work has appeared in journals including Childhood, Children’s Geographies, Contemporary Security Policy, Cooperation and Conflict, Critical Military Studies, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, Global Governance, Global Responsibility to Protect, International Political Sociology, International Politics, International Studies Review, Journal of Human Rights, Security Dialogue, and Third World Quarterly.
Julian Bermeo
Julian Bermeo is a PhD candidate from Colombia and carries out his doctoral research at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the University of Deusto under the supervision of Angela Bermúdez Velez from the Centre of Applied Ethics and Jaime Cuenca Amigo from the Leisure Studies Institute. His research project examines the potential of museums to learn about the violent past.
Julian holds a bachelor's in Political Sciences and a MA in Development Studies with a specialization in Conflict and Peace Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague. Before his PhD studies, he contributed to the Colombian Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition final report ‘No Es Un Mal Menor. Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes en el Conflicto Armado’.
He is now finalising his doctoral research fieldwork in Colombia where he has spent over a semester documenting the school museums of memory, a type of memorial museum that has emerged in different regions of the country, commemorating the violent past of the internal armed conflict. The differentiated experience of the many actors from the local communities who come together around these museums has been traced and reconstructed through in situ observation and individual and group interviews. In addition, the young students have taken part in creative workshops where they reflect on the development of their historical consciousness under the framework offered by the school museums of memory while creating audiovisual pieces.
The videos coproduced by the students can be fully watched on the research project youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-H5nSvUV_vwPACscFPOYyQ
Caitlin Biddolph
Dr. Caitlin Biddolph is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Gender and Global Governance at the University of Sydney, Australia. Caitlin completed her PhD in International Relations at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, and was formerly a Research Associate with the Australian Human Rights Institute. Caitlin’s primary research focuses on queering governance and international law, with her most recent research exploring discourses and logics of gender, sexuality, civilisation, and violence at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). She is particularly interested in queer, feminist, and decolonial approaches to global politics, particularly global governance, international law, and transitional justice. Caitlin’s most recent work has been published in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Griffith Law Review, and the Australian Journal of Human Rights.
Mark Drumbl
Mark Drumbl is the Class of 1975 Alumni Professor at Washington and Lee University, School of Law, where he also serves as Director of the University's Transnational Law Institute. He has held visiting appointments and has taught intensive courses at law schools world-wide, including Queen's University Belfast, Oxford University (University College), Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), Free University of Amsterdam, University of Ottawa, Masaryk University, Trinity College-Dublin, University of Western Ontario, University of Melbourne, Monash University, Vanderbilt University, University of Sydney, and the University of Illinois.
Professor Drumbl's research and teaching interests include public international law, global environmental governance, international criminal law, post-conflict justice, and transnational legal process. His work has been relied upon by the Supreme Court of Canada, the United Kingdom High Court, United States Federal Court, and the Supreme Court of New York in recent decisions.
Kirsten Fisher
Kirsten Fisher is Associate Professor of Political Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. She works on issues of transitional justice and post-conflict social reconstruction. Much of her research is grounded in field research in northern Uganda. She currently working on two SSHRC-funded projects, one on reparations for former child soldiers in northern Uganda, and the other on references to the International Criminal Court in peace negotiations with a focus on Uganda, Palestine/Israel, and Colombia.
Yousra Hasona
Yousra Hasona is a Ph.D. Candidate at Durban University of Technology, a lawyer, and a Research Officer at ARDD, Access to Justice and Inclusive Social Protection. Her main research interests are child soldiers and restorative justice in the Arab Spring countries generally and Iraq specifically, access to justice, social protection, conflict analysis, and resolution. She has publications in law, human rights, child recruitment, and restorative justice in the Arab World.
Barbora Hola
Barbora Hola works as Senior Researcher at the NSCR and as Associate Professor at the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She has an interdisciplinary focus and studies transitional justice after atrocities, in particular (international) criminal trials, sentencing of international crimes, rehabilitation of war criminals and life after trial at international criminal tribunals. Besides her research and teaching in the Master’s programme International Crimes and Criminology at VU Amsterdam, Barbora is a co-director of the Center for International Criminal Justice, a knowledge centre dedicated to interdisciplinary studies of mass atrocity crimes and international criminal justice (www.cicj.org) and a co-chair of the European Society of Criminology Group on Atrocity Crimes and Transitional Justice (https://ecactj.org). In 2018 she has been appointed as a member of De Jonge Akademie of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (https://www.dejongeakademie.nl/nl/science-spots/leden-in-beeld/barbara-hola). In 2017, Barbora was one of the four candidates who received the prestigious ‘WISE’ (Women in Science Excel) fellowship from the Dutch Organization for a Scientific Research to develop her research line on empirical studies of international criminal and transitional justice after atrocities.
Bonny Ibhawoh
Professor and the Senator William McMaster Chair in Global Human Rights at McMaster University, Canada. He serves as an Independent Expert-Rapporteur of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Expert Mechanism on the Right to Development. He is the founding Director of the McMaster University Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice. With over 30 years of experience as a human rights educator, policymaker, and practitioner, he has taught in Universities in Africa, Europe, the United States, and Canada. He coordinates the Confronting Atrocity Project, a transnational study of truth and reconciliation processes. He is also the Project Director of Participedia, a global research network on public participation and democratic innovations. He has authored several books and journal articles on human rights, international development studies, and transitional justice. His latest book is titled: “Truth Commissions and State-Building.” He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Debby Karemera
Mark Kersten
Mark Kersten is an Assistant Professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, and a Senior Consultant at the Wayamo Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Mark is the founder of the blog Justice in Conflict and author of the book, published by Oxford University Press, by the same name. He holds an MSc and PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a BA (Hons) from the University of Guelph. Mark has previously been a Research Associate at the Refugee Law Project in Uganda, and as researcher at Justice Africa and Lawyers for Justice in Libya in London. He has taught courses on genocide studies, the politics of international law, transitional justice, diplomacy, and conflict and peace studies at the London School of Economics, SOAS, and University of Toronto. Mark’s research has appeared in numerous academic fora as well as in media publications such as The Globe and Mail, Al Jazeera, BBC, Foreign Policy, the CBC, Toronto Star, and The Washington Post. He has a passion for gardening, reading, hockey (on ice), date nights, late nights, Lego, and creating time for loved ones.
Allen Kiconco
Dr. Allen Kiconco holds a PhD in African Studies from the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is a Modern Slavery PEC Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Allen's research focuses on gender and violence, specifically the experiences of women and girls in conflict and post-conflict settings in Africa. She has conducted extensive fieldwork with former combatants and survivors of sexual violence in Uganda and Sierra Leone. Her work includes topics such as abduction, captivity, rape, sexual slavery, forced marriage, and forced pregnancy. Her current research project aims to explore wartime forced marriage experiences across Uganda and Sierra Leone. ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4070-745X
Kate Macfarlane
Dr. Kate Macfarlane is the Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Faculty of Arts & Society, Charles Darwin University. She is an International Relations/Political Science scholar, who focuses on children and armed conflict, child soldiering, peacebuilding, gender. Recently, her research focused on the reintegration of child soldiers in post conflict settings. Dr Macfarlane received her PhD degree, two Bachelor degrees (First Class Honours) in International Relations and Political Science from Australian National University (ANU). She was awarded the prestigious 2018-2019 Fox Fellowship (Yale University). She is the recipient of several awards including the Australian Government Endeavour Fellowship (2018). Currently she is the Charles Darwin University (CDU) Program Lead and coordinator of the Pathways to Politics Program for Women. Dr Macfarlane has worked on number of Australian Research Council (ARC) funded projects including ‘Peacebuilding Compared’ with Professor John Braithwaite, and ‘Serving our Country’. Her recent publication is in International Affairs, Oxford University Press.
Lise Milne
Lise Milne is an Associate Professor in the University of Regina Faculty of Social Work (Saskatoon campus) and the Child Trauma Research Centre Research Chair in Internveition and Prevention Approaches Supporting Child and Youth Health and Well-Being (2022-2025). Her current research projects relate to resilience-, trauma-, and violence-informed practices in child-serving organizations, Canadian child welfare data, knowledge mobilization (childtraumaresearch.ca), the neurobiological impacts of trauma, and practice and policy responses to intimate partner violence. Prior to her appointment, Lise was a Lecturer at the University of Regina in 2017, where for six months she acted as the Field Education Coordinator. She has taught for the past 11 years at graduate and undergraduate levels at the University of Regina, McGill University, and Concordia University in Montreal. For 10 years she worked at the McGill University Centre for Research on Children and Families on several university-community partnership projects and was the coordinator for the Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal (cwrp.ca).
Caitlin Mollica
Caitlin Mollica is a lecturer (Assistant Professor) for the Business School at the University of Newcastle. Her research interests include youth’s political participation, children and transitional justice, gender-inclusive justice practices, and human rights. She has published in well regarded international journals including, Cooperation & Conflict, Human Rights Quarterly, and Pacific Review. Caitlin’s primary research considers the substantive participation of young people in transitional justice, and human rights practices. Her sole authored book: Agency & Ownership in Reconciliation: Youth and the Practice of Transitional Justice will be published in April 2024 by SUNY Press. Caitlin’s current work examines the relationship between donors and youth in the broader context of the new international mandate on youth inclusive peacebuilding. She is working with international NGO Dag Hammarskjöld foundation to develop a publicly available database that charts available funding programs for youth-led peace work.
Yadira Lizama-Mué
Yadira Lizama-Mué holds a PhD in Hispanic Studies with Specializations in Scientific Computing, and Transitional Justice and Post-Conflict Reconstruction at Western University, Ontario, Canada. She is a Research Assistant and Project Coordinator at the CulturePlex Lab. She has a decade of experience developing software for public institutions and the private sector from Cuba, Germany, and Canada. She is interested in the application of data science to support peacebuilding and transitional justice mechanisms. Her most recent work relevant to these areas focuses on the analysis of the language about victims and peace produced by the Table of Negotiations in Havana (Colombian Peace Process), the analysis of how conflict violence against children has been portrayed in the scientific literature of the last 40 years, and the identification of evolutive trends of child use and recruitment in Colombia through the analysis of Early Warnings issued by the Ombudsperson’s Office. Her doctoral thesis develops a data-driven methodology to help organizations report and document grave violations against children during war and follow up on how such types of violations are treated during peace negotiations and post-conflict reconstruction initiatives.
Jesse Mugero
Jesse Mugero is a Uganda peace builder who specializes in the post conflict reconstruction of societies ravaged by war or conflict. Jesse believes in the role of the law as a key for unlocking social transformation to help societies transition from a period of massive abuse of human rights to become more just and peaceful. Currently, he is employed as a Program Associate at the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) in Uganda and has previously worked with the Refugee Law Project (RLP), the Justice and Reconciliation Project (JRP) and Avocats Sans Frontieres (ASF).
Jamesy Patrick
Jamesy Patrick is an Assistant Professor at the College of Law with a research focus in child protection. Shereceived her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree Cum Laude in Dance (2006) from York University and both her Juris Doctor (2012) and Master of Laws (2017) from the University of Saskatchewan. Jamesy’s research during her LLM focused on child welfare in Saskatchewan. Prior to joining the College of Law, Jamesy practiced law in Saskatoon with a focus on child protection matters and Indigenous governance in relation to child protection. Jamesy is passionate about policy development and governance surrounding child protection for Indigenous communities and organizations, and she is devoted to advocating for children and families facing systemic barriers in our community. Jamesy frequently appears in the media and presents nationally on child protection related issues. Jamesy is honoured to sit on the Board of Directors of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewan and has two children who keep her busy. Jamesy's teaching areas include Property Law, Entertainment Law, Child Protection Law and Evidence.
Julia Paulson
Dr. Paulson is Dean of Education at the University of Saskatchewan. Born and raised in Alberta, Dr. Julia Paulson joins the University of Saskatchewan from the United Kingdom where she is a professor of education, peace and conflict, and co-director of the Centre for Comparative and International Research in Education at the University of Bristol. At Bristol, she was the first director of undergraduate programs in the School of Education as it introduced two new degree programs.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen’s University, and Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the University of Oxford.
Jeannette Rodgers
Dr. Jeannette Rodgers is an ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow at King’s College London, based within the War Studies Department and the Dickson Poon School of Law. She was awarded her doctorate in September 2022. Her thesis makes the case for why, and how, the participation of children under the age of eighteen should be facilitated in processes of transitional justice and argues for a framework grounded in what is understood as the ‘right to be heard’ for children, as outlined in article 12 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Her thesis utilises data collected in Rwanda from children between the ages of 13-18, to demonstrate how these children know and understand transitional justice and the right to be heard/to participate, as well as what processes, activities, and spaces they associate with these concepts. The thesis makes the space for the views and opinions of children to be heard at length, and the insights from these children shine a light into many of the practices related to meaningful engagement with children. The thesis provides practical recommendations and a fresh impetus toward a focus on the practices of giving children’s views serious consideration and constitutes a crucial original contribution to scholarship on transitional justice from the perspective of children’s rights and of development studies.
Aziz Saidi
Aziz Saidi is a professor of Public Law at the University of Morocco. Fields of interest include public law and political science, constitutional and administrative justice, public policy assessment, protection and management of natural resources (forestry), project management, fundamental rights and freedoms, legal certainty and the quality of legislation, human resources (engineering training).
Michelle Stewart
Dr. Michelle Stewart is an Associate Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies. An interdisciplinary scholar, Michelle works with research and evaluation teams at the regional, national and international level. As an applied anthropologist trained in Science and Technology Studies as well as visual and political anthropology, she focuses on research, interventions, evaluation and community collaboration in the area of cognitive disabilities, mental health and racialized inequalities as they present in the criminal justice and child welfare systems. Michelle recently completed two terms as the Academic Director of the Community Research Unit. Michelle is currently the co-Director of the Regina Improvisation Studies Centre and part of multiple teams using improvisation as a method in projects focused on social justice and social determinants of health.
Juan Luis Suárez
Juan Luis Suárez (Ph.D., Ph.D., MBA) is a Professor of Digital Humanities and the Director of the CulturePlex Lab at Western University, Canada. He has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Salamanca and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from McGill University. His work focuses on the digital condition, cultural analytics, and creativity. For over two decades, he has worked on a range of topics connected by a common underlying thread: interdisciplinary and collaborative research, and the innovative adaptation of methodology and design of research tools built to support research questions of social and humanistic nature. He has written over 100 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters over his career, the majority of which have appeared in the most prestigious journals and anthologies in his field. He has also authored 8 books. The most recent, in Spanish: La condición digital (The Digital Condition) (Trotta, 2023).
Cadhla O’Sullivan
Cadhla O’Sullivan is a PhD candidate in Education with Queen’s University Belfast. She is currently employed as a Research Fellow at the Children’s Policy Centre in the Australian National University, Canberra. Her research focused on a qualitative ethnographic style study with children and youth in Colombia, investigating a performing arts-based intervention for Peacebuilding and Peacekeeping. She has written two articles, a book chapter, and a case study style on her research and she has presented her findings at conferences throughout Ireland, the UK, and Australia. She holds a first-class honours degree in Social Science with University College Cork in Ireland. In 2019, she was awarded a master’s degree in Children’s Rights with Queen’s University Belfast, leading to a studentship to conduct my PhD research with the LINKS team based between Queen’s University Belfast and Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Conducting research with the LINKS team allowed her to gain experience as a research assistant, contributing to the production of a systematic review and an evidence and gap map (EGM) on Social Emotional Learning of children in low- and middle-income countries.
Rokon Uddin
Rokon Uddin is a Research Assistant at the Department of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. He is currently involved in collecting and analysing data on conflict-related violence in post-war cities globally with a focus on Sri Lanka, Iraq, Israel, Myanmar, Nepal, and El Salvador. He earned an MSc in Criminology from Malmö University (Sweden) in 2017, and a second MSc in Humanitarianism, Conflict and Development from the University of Bath (UK) in 2022. Earlier, he served the United Nations in Bangladesh as a political data analyst for more than three years within the context of the Rohingya humanitarian crisis.