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Bea Abrahams
Bea Abrahams is an independent contractor involved in facilitation,
research and capacity development programmes on psychosocial support to
survivors of human rights abuse and torture; forced migration;
peace-building and community-centred truth-seeking and social justice
initiatives. She has extensive experience in the management of
large-scale, multiple-partner, multi-country programmes and has worked
with international, national and local non-governmental organizations in
South Africa, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, and the Democratic Republic
of Congo. She also served as the Country Director in Sierra Leone for
the USA-based Centre for Victims of Torture. She is presently the Nelson
Mandela Foundation’s Implementing Partner on a two-year programme to
facilitate community conversations in order to explore and address the
underlying causes of violence and to promote social cohesion in South
Africa. She has a Masters Degree in Psychology from the University of
Sofia in Bulgaria, and holds a post-graduate Certificate in Family
Therapy from the Zimbabwe Institute for Systemic Therapies.
Louis Bickford
Louis Bickford is the
director of both the Policymakers and Civil Society Unit, and the
Memory, Museums and Monuments Program of the International Center for
Transitional Justice. A political scientist, Dr. Bickford is also
adjunct professor at the Wagner School of New York University and in the
Graduate Program in International Affairs (GPIA) at the New School for
Social Research, and former associate director of the Global Studies
Program and a lecturer in International Studies at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, and published in Human Rights Quarterly and Latin
American Research Review, and has contributed chapters to several books,
including The Art Of Truth-telling About Authoritarian Rule.
Alex Boraine
In 1995, President Nelson Mandela appointed Alex Boraine as the deputy
chair of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and
published a book on his experiences, A Country Unmasked: Inside South
Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He later founded the
International Center for Transitional Justice and served as
president then chairperson and director of the Cape Town office.
Before 1995, Dr. Boraine served as a member of the South African
Parliament, president of the Methodist Church in the country, and then
ran two non-profit groups that sought to end apartheid and address its
aftermath in South Africa. In 2008, Alex Boraine published a book titled
A Life in Transition, which – according to Open Society Institute
commentary – is “an insider's account of important institutions and
events in South African history”.
Juan Federer
Juan Federer is the
Director of
Programs at the Center for War and Peace Studies. He is an expert on
the problems of fragile states and currently works on Africa and Côte
d’Ivoire in particular. Dr. Federer is also the author of The UN in East
Timor: Building Timor Leste, a Fragile State.
Adam Hochschild
In Congolese circles,
Adam Hochschild is renowned for his 1998 book, King Leopold's Ghost:
a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa. He has
published numerous other books, as well as magazine and newspapers
articles for The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Review of Books,
Granta, The New York Times Magazine and others. Hochschild now teaches
at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at
Berkeley.
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja is
Professor of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focus is the political
history of Africa since the struggle for independence. In addition to
his work on contemporary governance problems in Africa, Dr.
Nzongola-Ntalaja has published an award-winning book, The Congo From
Leopold to Kabila: A People's History.
Piers Pigou
Piers Pigou is the
director of the South African History Archive. Before this Mr. Pigou
worked with the Black Sash, Peace Action, the Independent Board of
Inquiry and Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa. More
recently he has worked on truth and reconciliation projects in East
Timor and Zimbabwe, in addition to writing on issues of human rights,
justice and accountability.
Debra Schultz
Debra Schultz was until recently the Acting Director of the Gender
Justice Unit at the International Center for Transitional; she also
worked on memory, memorial and museums programs. She was director of
Programs for the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundations) Network
Women's Program, which works to include women in the development of
emerging democracies, primarily in Central/Eastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union. A feminist historian, she was previously a Visiting
Scholar at the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University
looking at Jewish women in the civil rights movement while studying
gender in the transitional societies of Central/Eastern Europe. Dr.
Schultz has taught courses on multicultural U.S. women's history at the
New School for Social Research and the history of Black-Jewish relations
at Rutgers University.
