The Human Rights Paradox: Universality and Its Discontents

Contributors

249 Contributors  Jo-Marie Burt is an associate professor of political science at George Mason University, as well as director of Latin American Studies and co-director of the Center for Global Studies. As a Senior Fellow at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), she works on transitional justice issues and has organized and participated in international observation missions to the trial of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori and the genocide trial of former de facto president General Efrain Ríos Montt in Guatemala. She has published widely in academic and journalistic venues on political violence, transitional justice, and state-society relations in Latin America, and is coeditor of Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform (2004) and author of Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru: Silencing Civil Society (2007). She is currently directing a research project on human rights prosecutions in Peru and is completing a manuscript on the Fujimori trial. Bridget Conley-Zilkic is the research director for the World Peace Foundation and lead researcher on the How Mass Atrocities End project. She previously worked as research director for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Committee on Conscience. She led the museum’s research and projects on contemporary threats of genocide, including curating the interactive installation From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide Today. She received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Binghamton University in 2001. Philippe Cullet is a professor of international and environmental law at SOAS, University of London, the Convenor of the International Environmental Law Research Centre (IELRC), and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), New Delhi. He has published widely in environmental law, natural resources law, water law and policy, human rights, and the socioeconomic aspects of intellectual property. His monographs include Water Law, Poverty and Development—Water Law Reforms in India (2009), Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development (2005), and Differential Treatment in International Environmental Law (2003). Richard P. Hiskes is a professor of political science and honors professor at Grand Valley State University. He is the author of many books and articles on political theory and particularly human rights theory. His 2009 book, The Human Right to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice, was named the Best Book in Human Rights Scholarship from the American Political Science Association. He is the former editor and now associate editor of the Journal of Human Rights. His forthcoming book (2014) is titled Human Dignity and the Promise of Human Rights. Fuyuki Kurasawa is an associate professor of sociology at York University in Toronto, and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University. He is the author of The Ethnological Imagination: A Cross-Cultural Critique of Modernity (2004) and The Work of Global Justice: Human Rights as Practices (2007), and currently is researching the history of the visual representation of humanitarian crises as well as the use of social media by human rights campaigns. Meghan Foster Lynch is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Temple University. In addition to human rights, her research interests include civil war and genocide, political psychology, and research methodology. Phuong N. Pham is a research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health and associate faculty and director of Evaluation and Implementation Science at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Dr. Pham is a pioneer in utilizing epidemiologic methods, statistics, and innovative technologies to address emerging complex international issues at the intersection of public health, complex emergencies, human rights, transitional justice, and peace building. She cofounded KoBoToolbox and Peacebuildingdata.org. Geoffrey Robinson is a professor of history at UCLA, where he teaches and writes about political violence, popular resistance, and human rights, primarily in Southeast Asia. His major works include: The Dark Side of Paradise: Political Violence in Bali (1995); East Timor 1999: Crimes against Humanity (2006); and “If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die”: How Genocide Was Stopped in 250 C o n t r i b u t o r s East Timor (2010). Before going to UCLA, he worked for six years at Amnesty International’s Research Department in London. He is currently writing a book about the mass killing and incarceration of up to one million people following a 1965 military coup in Indonesia. Steve J. Stern is Alberto Flores Galindo and Hilldale Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He researches and teaches Latin...