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Biographical Cameos for Conference Speakers Biographical Cameos for Conference Speakers Kieran McEvoy is Professor of Law and Transitional Justice at the School Kieran McEvoy of Law and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Queen’s University Belfast. He has conducted research in over a dozen conflicted or transitional countries contexts on topics including politically motivated prisoners, ex- combatants, victims, amnesties, truth recovery, human rights, restorative justice and the role of lawyers in conflict transition. He has written, or co- edited six books, a four volume Handbook of Transitional Justice, five special issues and over sixty journal articles and scholarly book chapters. His research has garnered a number of awards including the British Society of Criminology book of the year award and the Socio-legal Studies Association article of the year, 3 times. In 2008 he was named by Arena Magazine as one of the top ten most influential ‘young intellectuals’ in Britain for his work on the Northern Ireland peace process. Since then he has been leading a team of academics and civil society activists on dealing with the past in Northern Ireland, resulting in a wide range of practical and policy reports designed to assist the public conversation on these difficult and sensitive issues. He is a long term human rights and peace activist, a former chair of Northern Ireland’s main human rights NGO, the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ), and a founding member of Community Restorative Justice Ireland (CRJI). He is Principal Investigator on the Lawyers, Conflict and Transition project, having previously conducted extensive research on the role of lawyers during the Northern Ireland conflict and transition. Louise Mallinder is Professor of Human Rights and International Law at Louise Mallinder the Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University. She is also TJI's 'Dealing with the Past' research coordinator. Within her broad interests in international human rights law, international criminal law and law and politics in political transitions, Louise has a particular research interest and expertise in amnesty laws, the role of lawyers as transitional actors, and socio-legal research methods related to transitional justice. She has conducted fieldwork in numerous locations including Northern Ireland, Cambodia, Chile, South Africa, Israel, Palestine, Tunisia, Argentina, Uruguay, Uganda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Her research has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Nuffield Foundation and the Socio-Legal Studies Association. In addition, Louise's monograph was awarded the 2009 Hart SLSA Early Career Award and was jointly awarded the 2009 British Society of Criminology Book Prize. Louise is also a member of the AHRC and ESRC Peer-Review Colleges, the Royal Irish Academy Ethical, Political, Legal and Philosophical Studies Committee and she co-chairs the American Society of International Law Transitional Justice and Rule of Law Interest Group. Outside academia, Louise is the Chair of the Committee on the Administration of Justice, a human rights non-governmental organisation in Northern Ireland. 1 Anna Bryson is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Law, Queen’s Anna Bryson University Belfast. A historian by training, she joined QUB in 2014 to work full-time on the Lawyers, Conflict and Transition project. Her academic research has developed along three closely related lines: modern Irish history, socio-legal studies and conflict transformation. She has conducted more than 200 qualitative / oral history interviews connected to the social and historical investigation of political imprisonment, conflict resolution, victimhood, and community relations. She has published three books and several peer-reviewed articles. Since 2015 Anna has been working together with colleagues from QUB, Ulster University, the Committee on the Administration of Justice (CAJ) and a former senior Foreign and Commonwealth Office lawyer to develop a ‘Model Bill’ for the Dealing with the Past elements of the Stormont House Agreement (she leads on the Oral History Archive). She is an executive member of CAJ and is the Northern Ireland representative for the Oral History Society. She is also an active member of Healing Through Remembering’s Stories Network and a founding member of the QUOTE hub (Queen’s University Oral History Technology and Ethics). She has served on the Advisory Board of more than a dozen conflict-related research projects. Alex Batesmith lectures in transitional justice, international criminal law Alex Batesmith and human rights at the Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool. He joined the University in August 2015 after more than twenty years’ practice, including ten years as a barrister in Leeds specialising in criminal law, and five years as a United Nations prosecutor in Cambodia and Kosovo, working on cases involving war crimes and crimes against humanity. He was the lead UN prosecutor in the investigation and initial phase of the public trial of Duch, the first case at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Phnom Penh. Since 2009, Alex has also practised as an independent consultant in his fields of expertise, acting as project manager, technical expert, trainer (including trainer of trainers) and evaluator on more than twenty consultancies in over a dozen different countries, with an increasing focus on South East Asia and Myanmar in particular. He has worked extensively on post-conflict justice development projects for many international organisations, including the UN Development Programme, the International Development Law Organisation, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and GiZ, the German development organisation. In addition to his work on Cambodian lawyers for the Lawyers, Conflict and Transition project, Alex is currently researching transitional justice and the role of lawyers in Myanmar and is developing a socio-legal study of international prosecutors. His final research interest is in business and human rights, has examined corporate due diligence mechanisms for companies working in conflict-affected or other high-risk environments, and is published on corporate liability for human rights abuses. He is a practising mediator in both the community and civil/commercial sectors, with a particular interest in developing community engagement strategies involving mediation principles. 2 Ron Dudai is a fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, Hebrew Ron Dudai University of Jerusalem. He works in the fields of human rights, social movements, transitional justice, and punishment and social control. He is especially interested in non-state actors (armed groups, social movements, and human rights organizations), as well as in questions of social control and punishment in the context of political violence. He is co-editor of the Journal of Human Rights Practice, where he previously edited two special issues, on Armed Groups and Human Rights Praxis, and on Dilemmas of Human Rights Activism. His work was published in, among others, Human Rights Quarterly, British Journal of Criminology, International Journal of Transitional Justice, Terrorism and Political Violence, Journal of Human Rights, as well as several edited volumes. He was awarded the Brian Williams Prize by the British Society of Criminology. Julie Norman is a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Mitchell Institute Julie Norman for Global Peace, Security, and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB). Her research focuses broadly on the intersection of human rights, resistance, and security in protracted conflicts, particularly in Israel- Palestine. She is the author of three books on civil resistance and a forthcoming book on the Palestinian prisoners’ movement. Her current comparative project, supported by the British Academy, explores the utility of prison-based resistance, the role of former prisoners in peace processes, and the ways in which states negotiate detention and interrogation policies. As a former community media trainer with refugee youth in the West Bank, she has also published on media activism, youth, and conflict, and will be coordinating media interventions with Syrian refugees via an AHRC/ESRC grant in 2017. She has held fellowships with MIT, Dartmouth College, and the Palestinian American Research Centre (PARC), and has coordinated projects with the UNDP and with local NGOs throughout the Middle East. Rachel Killean is a lecturer at the School of Law, Queen’s University Rachel Killean Belfast. Her research interests centre around two key topics: first, the ways in which states and other actors respond to international crimes and mass human rights violations, and second, the various factors and contexts which influence the invisibility or visibility of certain crimes and harms. Dr Killean’s PhD examined the extent to which international criminal courts can respond to the needs and interests of victims. In particular, it focused on the role of victims within the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia. Drawing from critical victimology, socio-legal theory and procedural justice theory, it considered how the rights victims were given, and the 'justice' which they received from the Court, was shaped by the various political, legal and civil society actors involved in the Court's work. She is also interested in responses to sexualised and gender based violence, and in particular in the ways in which international criminal law has addressed
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