Contributors
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Reza Afshari, Professor Emeritus of History and Human Rights, Pace University. He is the author of Human Rights in Iran: The Abuse of Cultural Relativism (2001 and 2011).
Nehaluddin Ahmad, MA, LL.B., LL.M. (Lucknow University, India), LL.M. (Strathclyde University, UK), LL.D. (Meerut University, India) is a Professor, Department of Law, Sultan Sharif Ali Islamic University (UNISSA), Brunei Darussalam. Email: ahmadnehal@yahoo.com.
Kathleen Cavanaugh is currently a Lecturer of International Law in the Faculty of Law, Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), National University of Ireland, Galway. Her areas of expertise include: the study of nationalism, ethnic conflict, political violence, human rights law in entrenched/states of emergency, narratives on Islamic and international law, freedom of religion, and militant democracy. Recent publications include Minority Rights in the Middle East (OUP, 2013) which includes case studies on Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon and “Narrating Law” in Emon, Ellis, and Glahn (eds.) Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law (OUP 2012). In 2013, she was awarded a Leverhulme/British Academy of Sciences grant to undertake field work on Militant Democracy in Turkey.
Tine Destrooper (Dr.) is the Managing Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice. She obtained her Ph.D. from the European University Institute and carried out postdoctoral research at the Universities of Leiden and Antwerp. She has done fieldwork in Central America and the DRC, and specializes in the issues of localizing human rights, women’s rights and social movement activism. Her current research focus is on the intersection of social movement activism, transitional justice and human rights.
Nancy Flowers is a writer and consultant for human rights education. She has worked to develop Amnesty International’s education program and is a founding member of Human Rights Educators USA, a national human rights education network. She is the author and editor of articles and books on human rights education including most recently Acting for Indigenous Rights: Theatre to Change the World (Minnesota, 2013); Human Rights. Yes! Action and Advocacy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Minnesota, 2012); Local Action/Global Change: A Handbook on Women’s Human Rights (Paradigm Press, 2008); and Compasito, a Manual on Human Rights Education for Children (Council of Europe, 2007).
David P. Forsythe is the Charles J. Mach Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He taught human rights there for almost forty years where one now finds the Forsythe Family Program on Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. [End Page 847]
David E. Guinn is a Senior Associate and Research Professor of International Law and Human Rights. He is currently the Project Director for the Legislative Strengthening Program for Cote d’Ivoire and previously served as Project Director for the Afghanistan Parliamentary Assistance Project (2010–2013) and the Project to Support the Lebanese Parliament (2011–2012). Dr. Guinn also served as Chief of Party for the Afghanistan Project in 2013. Dr. Guinn has written extensively on issues of national and international human rights, pluralism, and law and is currently working on a new book: Constantine’s Standard: Meditations on Religion, Violence, Law, Politics and a Faith to Die For. Dr. Guinn obtained his law degree from Fordham University Law School and practiced entertainment and creative rights law for almost 15 years. He subsequently received an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from McGill University in Montreal.
Edel Hughes is currently Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of East London. She researches in a number of areas in the field of international human rights law, including freedom of religion, minority rights, and human rights and conflict, with a regional interest in Turkey and the Middle East. Her previous publications include Turkey’s Accession to the European Union: The Politics of Exclusion? (Routledge; 2010), Atrocities and International Accountability: Beyond Transitional Justice (coeditor) (United Nations University Press; 2007), as well as a number of academic articles and book chapters.
Ahmad Masum, LL.B., MCL, Ph.D.(IIUM), Senior Lecturer, School of Law, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Kedah, Malaysia Email:medi24my@yahoo.com.
Brittany Mitchell is an associate at Stinson Leonard Street in Minneapolis, MN. She received a J.D. from...
