Principles on National Security and the RTI Participants
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Principles on National Security and the RTI Participants Sandra Africa Sandra (Sandy) Africa is an associate professor in Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, and the head of the Institute for Strategic and Political Affairs (ISPA) at the University. She is also the vice- chairperson of the African Security Sector Network, a pan-African forum of scholars, policy advocates and security practitioners who have a common interest in promoting security sector reform in Africa. Sandy regularly facilitates training programmes in governance for stakeholders in the South African, Southern African and African security sectors. She is the author of Well-kept secrets: The right of access to information and the South African intelligence services published by the Institute for Global Dialogue and the FES in 2009. She was recently appointed as a fellow of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. Sayeed Ahmad Sayeed Ahmad is the country program manager at Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), a Bangkok based regional Human Rights organization with 47 member organizations from 16 Asian countries. Sayeed looks after the organization’s human rights advocacy activities for those Asian countries, especially in the area of Freedom of Expression and Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association. Sayeed is a lawyer, who worked in Bangladesh for many years with national human rights organizations as well as the National Human Right commission (NHRC). Camila Asano Camila Asano is the coordinator of the Foreign Policy and Human Rights Project at Conectas Human Rights. She has been working for eight years at the institution, initially focusing on research areas and now on international affairs. In her work at Conectas, she performs advocacy initiatives coupled with knowledge-based activities. She also participates as a lecturer in courses and seminars in various countries. Camila has published various articles on foreign policy and human rights. She has also been a professor of International Relations at the Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado (FAAP) in Sao Paulo since 2010, where she teaches, among others, the subject of human rights. Afia Asare Kyei Afia Asare Kyei is program manager for the law, justice, and human rights program at the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA). Afia, a dual Ghanaian and South African citizen, has a varied background in development programs, ranging from working with communities in conflict situations, training civil society groups and communities on general human rights and on the special discourse of transitional justice, working with governments and organizations on justice sector reform and access to justice, HIV/AIDS etc. Prior to joining OSIWA, Afia worked for Save the Children-UK, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the JHUCCP/USAID in different capacities. She is a graduate of the Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. Mohamed Babiker Mohamed Babiker is assistant professor of international law for the University of Khartoum. He is also the deputy dean and head of international and comparative law department in the Faculty of Law. His field of expertise and research interest is international human rights law, international humanitarian law, and international criminal law. Mohamed has worked as legal advisor and human rights officer with several UN and AU peacekeeping operations in Sudan, and as a consultant with a number of international NGOs focusing on Darfur. Catalina Botero Marino Catalina Botero Marino is currently the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression and was elected to this position in July 2008 by the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights elected Colombian attorney Prior to this position, Catalina worked as Acting Magistrate and Auxiliary Magistrate in the Constitutional Court of Colombia for 8 years. Previously she has held a number of human rights posts, including adviser for the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Nation. She is the author of several books and essays published in different countries on freedom of expression, constitutional law, international criminal law and transitional justice. Ben Buckland Ben Buckland is a researcher on security sector governance with DCAF in Geneva and a Senior Associate with the Ethicos Group. His areas of expertise include: ombuds institutions and other independent oversight mechanisms, access to information, whistleblower protection, and anti- corruption. Prior to joining DCAF, Ben worked as a consultant on counter-corruption with a range of international organizations and as a researcher with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Tanti Budi Suryani Tanti Budi Suryani is the program officer for Freedom of Information Initiatives at the Tifa Foundation in Indonesia. She is a member of Freedom of Information Advocates Network. In collaboration with Open Society Foundations, IDSPS, and Forum-Asia, she organized Asia CSOs Consultation on National Security and Right to Information that involved CSOs from 15 countries and attended by Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression unofficially in November 2011. Sandra Coliver Sandra (Sandy) Coliver works with the Open Society Justice Initiative as the senior legal officer for freedom of information and expression. Previously, she served as the director of the Center for Justice and Accountability, a San Francisco–based organization that works to deter torture and other severe human rights abuses by helping survivors hold persecutors legally accountable. For more than two decades, she has managed or participated in human rights and rule of law programs in Mongolia, Morocco, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa, Rwanda, Russia, and parts of Europe, including three years during which she was based in Bosnia. Sandy received her law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and her undergraduate degree from Yale. Leopoldo de Amaral Leopoldo de Amaral is a Mozambican human rights lawyer, employed by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) from 2006 as assistant programme manager for the Human Rights and Democracy Building. Prior to his work at OSISA he taught international public law and human rights in Mozambique. He holds a Master’s degree on Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa. Mukelani Dimba Mukelani Dimba is the deputy executive director of the Open Democracy Advice Center (ODAC), a South African law center that specializes on freedom of information and whistleblower protection laws. Mukelani has work experience on accountability and transparency issues in South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Egypt. This work includes advising civil society formations on campaigning for, and application of, Right-to-information laws, advising foreign legislators on drafting these laws, advising governments on implementation strategies and doing research on behalf of development agencies. Gwinyayi Dzinesa Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa joined the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) in November 2011 as a senior researcher in the Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis (CPRA) Division in Pretoria, South Africa. Prior to assuming his post at ISS, Gwinyayi served as: an independent consultant; senior researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town; lecturer in the Department of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Africa’s International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand; visiting scholar at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo and as a research and publications officer at the Centre for Defence Studies at the University of Zimbabwe. He is co-editor of Region Building in Southern Africa: Progress, Problems and Prospects and Peacebuilding, Power and Politics in Africa and has researched and published widely on peace and security issues and participates in media interviews and debates. Baltazar Fael Baltazar Fael is a jurist presently working at the Center of Public Integrity in Mozambique. He works as program coordinator in the areas of good governance and anti-corruption. In 2003 he worked as provincial prosecutor in Maputo City, and again in the central province of Zambezia. Antonio de Costa Gaspar António da Costa Gaspar is director of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CEEI) at High Institute for International Relations (ISRI), based in Maputo, Mozambique. He is also lecturer and researcher focusing on conflict and peace, and security matters, as well as on civil- military relations, development and democracy. Morton Halperin Morton (Mort) H. Halperin is a senior advisor to the Open Society Foundations. He has a distinguished career in the U.S. federal government, having served in the Clinton, Nixon, and Johnson administrations. In the Clinton administration, Mort was director of the Policy Planning Staff at the Department of State (1998-2001), special assistant to the president and senior director for democracy at the National Security Council (1994-1996), and consultant to the secretary of defense and the under secretary of defense for policy (1993). He was nominated by the president for the position of assistant secretary of defense for democracy and peacekeeping. In the Johnson administration, Mort worked in the Department of Defense where he served as deputy assistant secretary of defense (International Security Affairs), responsible for political-military