Contributors
- Contributors
Ustinia Dolgopol is a Lecturer in Law at Flinders University of South Australia. She received her JD at SUNY Buffalo. She was the former Director of the Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers (1982–1987), operating under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) and was a member of the ICJ investigative mission of May 1993 which reported on the taking of women as military sexual slaves (“Comfort Women”) by Japan during World War II.
Jon Ebersole is currently a consultant to the United Nations Secretariat in New York developing training programs for the civilian component of United Nations Peacekeeping and other Field Operations. Previously he was Director of the Program on Humanitarian Assistance at the World Conference on Religion and Peace. He has an M.A. in anthropology and Public Administration and was a 1991–92 Adjunct Fellow at the Center for International Studies of New York University Law School.
Tom Farer, former President of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States and of The University of New Mexico, is Professor and Director of the Joint-Degree Program in Law and International Relations at The American University. He served as legal consultant to the director of the United Nations operation in Somalia in 1993 and recently concluded a commentary on the Draft Ugandan Constitution. His edited book, Beyond Sovereignty: Collectively Defending Democracy in the Western Hemisphere will be published by The Johns Hopkins University Press in Summer 1995.
Helen Fein is a historical and political sociologist with a Ph.D. from Columbia University. She serves as Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide and is author of eight books and many articles: most are about genocide and the Holocaust, human rights, collective violence, and collective altruism. These include Accounting for Genocide (winner of the Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association in 1979) and most recently Genocide: A Sociological Perspective (winner of the PIOOM award 1991). She lives in Cambridge, MA and is currently engaged in a study of human rights, social theory, and social structure.
Mario Gomez is Lecturer in Law, University of Colombo and Consultant, Law & Society Trust.
Ann Kent is author of Between Freedom and Subsistence: China and Human Rights (1993). She has published a number of articles and monographs on China's human rights and briefed two Australian human rights delegations to China. She has been a research specialist on China in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and in the Legislative Research Service of the Australian Parliament, and is currently a Research Scholar in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University.
Nigel S. Rodley is Professor of Law and Dean of the School of Law at the University of Essex, Colchester, England. He is also a member of the International Human Rights Council of the Carter Center of Emory University.
Anton Steenkamp is an attorney working in the field of human rights at the firm of Cheadle, Thompson & Haysom in Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds LL.M. degrees in International Human Law from the Universities of Notre Dame (summa cum laude) and Pretoria, and B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Stellenbosch. Before practicing law, he was a journalist for the Vrye Weedblad weekly newspaper, and a researcher for the Independent Board of Inquiry into Informal Repression, investigating hit squad activities and other human rights abuses under the previous South African government.
