- Yonah Diamond
- Yonah Diamond, principal author of this report, is an international human rights lawyer specializing in atrocity prevention, international justice, and political prisoner advocacy at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights. He is also principal author and co-author of the independent reports The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the 1948 Genocide Convention (2021) and Cameroon's Unfolding Catastrophe: Evidence of Human Rights Violations and Crimes against Humanity (2019), respectively.
- Professor John Packer
- Professor John Packer is the Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution in the Faculty of Law and Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre at the University of Ottawa. For over 20 years he worked for intergovernmental organizations (UNHCR, ILO, OHCHR, UNDPA, OSCE) which included investigations of serious violations of human rights notably in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Burma/Myanmar. He is a former Senior Legal Adviser and the first Director of the Office of the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Professor Packer served this project as a principal advisor.
- Erin Farrell Rosenberg
- Erin Farrell Rosenberg is a Visiting Scholar with the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. She is an attorney specializing in international criminal law and reparations, having worked at the ICTY and the International Criminal Court for a decade. She is the former Senior Advisor for the Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she was the lead author for the report series, Practical Prevention: How the Genocide Convention’s Obligation to Prevent Applies to Burma. She is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of International Criminal Justice (JICJ) and the ABA Working Group on Crimes Against Humanity. Farrell Rosenberg served this project as a principal advisor.
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Susan Benesch
- Professor Susan Benesch founded and directs the Dangerous Speech Project (dangerousspeech.org), to study speech that can inspire violence - and to find ways to prevent this, without infringing on freedom of expression. An international human rights lawyer, she is also Faculty Associate of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
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Rayhan Asat
- Rayhan Asat is a human rights attorney based in Washington DC. A graduate of Harvard Law School and former anti-corruption attorney at a major U.S. law firm, she specializes in international human rights law. She is currently a Senior Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights and is also the Founder and President of the American Turkic International Lawyers Association.
- Adejoké Babington-Ashaye
- Adejoké Babington-Ashaye is an international law expert. She is actively engaged in the provision of technical support and advice for national prosecution and investigation of international crimes through UNODC and The Wayamo Foundation, and was an investigator at the International Criminal Court (2005 - 2010). Babington-Ashaye has also served as the Former Senior Counsel at the World Bank (2012 - 2021) and Former Associate Legal Officer at the International Court of Justice (2010 - 2012).
- Christopher Atwood
- Christopher Atwood is a graduate student at the Harriman Institute of Columbia University. He researches regional perceptions of identity, culture, and communications. He has advised several media, advertising, and marketing organizations and NGOs in both Ukraine and Russia. He served this project as an advisor.
- Santiago A. Canton
- Santiago A. Canton is the director of the Peter D. Bell Rule of Law Program at the Inter-American Dialogue and an international visiting scholar at the American University Washington College of Law. In 1998, he served as the first Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression in the Inter-American System. From 2001 - 2012, he was the Executive Secretary of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States. In 2005, Canton was awarded the Inter-American Press Association´s Chapultepec Grand Prize for his contributions to the promotion, development, strengthening, and defense of the principles of freedom of expression. Honorable Irwin Cotler The Honorable Irwin Cotler is the International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, an Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and longtime Member of Parliament, and an international human rights lawyer.
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David Crane
- Professor David Crane is a Professor of Practice at Syracuse University College of Law. He teaches international law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, national security law, and other related subjects. He is also the founder of the “I am Syria” campaign and “Impunity Watch.” Previously, Crane served as the Chief Prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal in West Africa, known as the Special Court for Sierra Leone, appointed by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, from 2002-2005.
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Dato Param Cumaraswamy
- Dato Param Cumaraswamy is a distinguished international lawyer who served as the Chair of the Malaysian Bar Council from 1986 to 1988 and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers by the UN Commission on Human Rights from 1994 to 2003. He has written extensively about the independence of the legal profession and the judiciary and about the importance of human rights. He has lectured widely on a variety of legal topics, notably on the role of an independent and responsible judiciary in fostering democracy.
- Ambassador
Kelley Currie
- Ambassador Kelley Currie is a human rights lawyer who has served as US Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues (2019 - 2021) and US Representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council (2017 - 2019). Throughout her career in foreign policy, Ambassador Currie has specialized in human rights, political reform, development and humanitarian issues. She is currently an Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for New American Security and Senior Non Resident Fellow at the New Lines Institute.
- Professor Tanya L. Domi
- Professor Tanya L. Domi is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and is an affiliate faculty member of the Harriman Institute. Domi has researched EU integration of Western Balkan countries and NATO enlargement in the region.
- Dr. Tatyana Eatwell
- Dr. Tatyana Eatwell is a Barrister at Doughty Street Chambers in London, U.K., who specialises in public international law and international human rights law. She has acted in high-profile criminal appeals before the UK Supreme Court concerning the interpretation of international law on, for example, war crimes, terrorism, and torture, and the application of international law in domestic proceedings. She has a PhD from the University of Cambridge in Public International Law. Her thesis focuses on questions of attribution and is titled ‘State Responsibility for the Unlawful Conduct of Armed Groups’ (due to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2022).
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Mark Ellis
- Mark Ellis is the Director of the International Bar Association and is the chair of the UN-created Advisory Panel on Matters Relating to Defence Counsel of the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals. Ellis has also served as Legal Advisor to the Independent International Commission on Kosovo and was appointed by OSCE to advise on the creation of Serbia’s War Crimes Tribunal. He was actively involved with the Iraqi High Tribunal and acted as legal consultant to the defense team of Nuon Chea at the Cambodian War Crimes Tribunal (ECCC).
- Zoe Gladstone
- Zoe Gladstone has a JD from the University of Ottawa where she specialized in human rights and international law. She has varied work experience in the public sector, including through Canada’s Department of Justice and Department of Foreign Affairs, as a former Project Manager at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and as a Policy and Legal Intern at the Human Rights Foundation.
- Professor Max Hilaire
- Professor Max Hilaire is a Professor at New York University, Prague. He holds an M.A, M.Phil, and Ph.D in International Relations from Columbia University. His expertise includes Public International Law, International Human Rights & International Humanitarian Law, United Nations Law, and U.S. Foreign Relations Law. He is the former Professor & Chair of the Department of Political Science at Morgan State University. He is a two-time Fulbright Scholar, and a recipient of a number of Fulbright- Hayes award and other distinguished faculty awards. He is the author of several books, most recently The Evolution and Transformation of International Law.
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Mofidul Hoque
- Mofidul Hoque is the Founding Trustee of the Liberation War Museum in Bangladesh and the Director of the Centre for Studies on Genocide and Peace. He is a recipient of the second-highest civilian award in Bangladesh, the Ekushey Padak, and is recognized internationally for his work as a genocide scholar, an activist, and a researcher.
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Steven T. Katz
- Professor Steven T. Katz holds the Alvin J. And Shirley Slater Chair in Jewish Holocaust Studies at Boston University and is the former Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. He previously taught at Dartmouth College and has published numerous works on the Holocaust and Jewish philosophy.
- Professor Hiroaki Kuromiya
- Professor Hiroaki Kuromiya is a Professor of History Emeritus at Indiana University. He studies modern and contemporary Ukraine in the wider context of Eurasian history. Professor Kuromiya has written on the Donbass (historical and contemporary), the Holodomor, the Great Terror, along with other subjects, mainly focusing on the Stalin era.
- Professor Errol Mendes
- Professor Errol Mendes is a lawyer, author, and Professor at the University of Ottawa. He has previously served as Director of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, the oldest University-based bilingual human rights research and education institution in Canada. Professor Mendes has also served as an adviser to corporations, governments, civil society groups, and the United Nations. His interests include constitutional and human rights law, public international law, including humanitarian and international criminal law, and international business and trade law.
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Norman M. Naimark
- Professor Norman M. Naimark is the Robert and Florence McDonnell Professor of East European Studies at Stanford University. Naimark is interested in modern Eastern European and Russian history as well as genocide and ethnic cleansing in the 20th century. He is the author of Genocide: A World History. Naimark earned his Ph.D. in History from Stanford University in 1972. In addition to his myriad academic positions, he has been awarded the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1996.
- Dr. Melanie O’Brien
- Dr. Melanie O’Brien is an Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Western Australia’s Law School. She is the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and a member of the WA International Humanitarian Law Committee of the Australian Red Cross. Dr. O'Brien's research and supervision areas include international criminal law, genocide studies, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, feminist legal theory, public international law, comparative criminal law, peacekeeping, and military law. O'Brien's work on forced marriage has been cited by the International Criminal Court, and she has been an amicus curiae before the ICC.
- Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab
- Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab is a human rights advocate, author and co-founder of the Coalition for Genocide Response. Dr. Ochab works on the topic of genocide, with specific focus on the persecution of ethnic and religious minorities around the world. Her main projects focus on the Daesh genocide in Syria and Iraq, Boko Haram atrocities in West Africa, the situation of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and of the Uyghurs in China. She has written over 30 reports for the UN and has made oral and written submissions at the Human Rights Council, the UN Forum on Minority Issues, PACE, and other international and regional fora.
- Professor Maxim Pensky
- Professor Max Pensky is a Professor of Philosophy at Binghamton University, the State University of New York, where he is a founding Co-Director of the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP). He has held fellowships at Goethe University Frankfurt as well as Oxford and Cornell Universities.
- Emily Prey
- Emily Prey is a Senior Analyst at The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy. She is a gender expert specializing in genocide and transitional justice with a Master’s in Gender Analysis and Human Security from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. She contributed to the independent expert report The Uyghur Genocide: An Examination of China’s Breaches of the Genocide Convention. She served this project as an advisor.
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Allan Rock
- Ambassador Allan Rock is President Emeritus and Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa. He practiced for 20 years as a trial lawyer in Toronto before his election to Parliament, where he held multiple Cabinet posts. He later served as Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, where he led the successful Canadian effort to secure the unanimous adoption by UN member states of The Responsibility to Protect.
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Michael Scharf
- Dean Michael Scharf has been Co-Dean of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law since 2013. He also serves as Managing Director of the Public International Law and Policy Group, a Nobel Peace Prize-nominated NGO. He has led USAID-funded transitional justice projects in Uganda, Côte d’Ivoire, Libya, and Turkey (for Syria), and maritime piracy projects in Kenya, Mauritius, and The Seychelles. Scharf has also held numerous positions with the U.S. Department of State as an attorney.
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David J. Scheffer
- Ambassador David J. Scheffer is the International Francqui Professor, KU Leuven, and was the first US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues (1997 - 2001). Scheffer participated in the creation of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge tribunal. He also led the U.S. negotiating team in United Nations talks on the International Criminal Court. Scheffer is Clinical Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.
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Marci Shore
- Professor Marci Shore is an Associate Professor of History at Yale University and a regular visiting fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna. She is the translator of Michał Głowiński's The Black Seasons and the author of Caviar and Ashes: A Warsaw Generation's Life and Death in Marxism (1918-1968), The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe, and The Ukrainian Night: An Intimate History of Revolution. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her current project about phenomenology in East-Central Europe, tentatively titled Eyeglasses Floating in the Sky: Central European Encounters that Took Place while Searching for Truth.
- Dr. David Simon
- Dr. David Simon serves on the Executive Committee of the Consortium of Higher Education Centers for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Studies. Simon studies how states and societies commit and experience mass atrocities, and their subsequent recovery. He serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Yale and has served as a consultant for several U.N. agencies, including UNDP, UNITAR, Office of the Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide, and the Millennium Development Project.
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Timothy Snyder
- Prof. Timothy Snyder is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. His books include The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999 (2003), Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015), and On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017). He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford, and has received the Carnegie and Guggenheim fellowships. Among other distinctions are the Emerson Prize in the Humanities, the Literature Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Foundation for Polish Science prize in the social sciences, the Leipzig Award for European Understanding, the Dutch Auschwitz Committee award, and the Hannah Arendt Prize in Political Thought.
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Gregory H. Stanton
- Dr. Gregory H. Stanton is the Founding President of Genocide Watch, founder of the Cambodian Genocide Project, and founder of the Alliance Against Genocide. He was President (2007 - 2009) of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). While in the US State Department, he drafted the UN Security Council Resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
- Chief Charles Taku
- Chief Taku is a certified leading international law expert with forty years of professional and trial experience. He is the immediate past President of the International Criminal Court Bar Association (ICCBA) and a Trustee and Member for Life of the Executive Governing Council of the African Bar Association (AfBA). Over the last two decades, he represented clients at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the International Criminal Court, the United Nations Human Rights Committee in Geneva and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Arusha Tanzania.
- Dr. György Tatár
- Dr. György Tatár is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities established in Budapest, Hungarym, since 2011. Prior to joining the Foundation, from 2004 to 2010 he worked for the EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy in the capacity of Head of Task Force for Horizontal Security Issues and Conflict Prevention within the Policy Planning and Early Warning Unit. From 1977 to 2004, he served in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Hungary in various positions in Budapest and in the Embassies of Hungary in Baghdad, Prague and Vienna.
- Robert Tyler
- Robert Tyler is a Senior Policy Advisor at New Direction – Foundation for European Reform, a Brussels- based think tank founded by Margaret Thatcher in 2009 as the official foundation of the European Conservative Movement. Prior to working for New Direction, he worked as policy adviser in the European Parliament, focused on foreign policy and counterterrorism.
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