Centre on Human Rights in Conflict
Affiliates, Management, and International Advisory Group
The Centre includes affiliates from across the University of East London, a Management Team housed within the School of Law, and an International Advisory Group drawn from practitioner and academic experts in conflict and human rights globally.
Affiliates
Law School affiliates
- Barry Collins, Senior Lecturer. Expertise and research interests: constitutionalism, nationalism and conflict resolution, critical legal studies, psychoanalytical theory, the Irish peace process and the Israel-Palestine conflict.
- Dr Pete Fussey, Senior Lecturer in Criminology. Expertise and research interests: dissemination of public space surveillance strategies in the UK; theorising surveillance; implications and impact of applying conventional crime control strategies to tackle terrorism; changing urban geographies and anti-crime/terrorism strategies.
- Dr. Anne Griffiths, Senior Lecturer. Expertise and research interests: international human rights, rights of indigenous peoples, customary law, and the interface between law and religion.
- Dr. Kofi Kufuor, Reader. Research Leader for the School of Law. Expertise and research interests: human rights and economic theory, international environmental law.
- Dr Sylvie Langlaude, Lecturer. Expertise and research interests: public international law, human rights, religious freedom, children's rights, constitutional law.
- Annalisa Meloni, lecturer. Expertise and research interests: EU law, particularly on immigration, asylum and external border controls, and EU constitutional law.
- Anthony Richards, Senior Lecturer. Expertise and research interests: terrorism and counter terrorism, UK counter terrorism strategy, terrorist political fronts, Northern Irish terrorism and the Northern Irish peace process.
- Siraj Sait, Reader. Expertise and research interests: human rights, including women's rights, land and property rights, refugee law, and development studies and Islamic law.
- Dr Iwa Salami, Lecturer. Expertise and research interests: Regulation of financial markets in emerging economies, legal aspects of economic integration in emerging economies, banking law, securities regulation and prorietary rights in securities.
- Dr. Chandra Lekha Sriram, Professor of Law and Director. Expertise and research interests: human rights, international criminal law, transitional justice, conflict prevention and peacebuilding.
- John Strawson, Reader. Expertise and research interests: Islamic law and human rights, international criminal law, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and international law after September 11th.
Management team
The Management Team is comprised of Professor Chandra Lekha Sriram, Barry Collins, Fiona Fairweather, Dr. Pete Fussey, Dr. Anne Griffiths, Anthony Richards, Dr. Kofi Kufuor, Siraj Sait, and John Strawson.
UEL affiliates
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Dr. Massimo De Angelis, Reader (Economics Subject Group, ELBS). Expertise and research interests: intersection between globalisation processes and social conflict, critical deconstruction of economic theory, political economy of trade and financial globalisation, value theory.
- Dr. Erika Cudworth, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies. Expertise and research interests: social inclusion and exclusion, particularly in relation to gender, and social difference and human relations with 'the environment'.
- Dr. Tim Hall, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences Media and Cultural Studies. Expertise and research interests: political philosophy and international political theory.
- Dr. Narmala Halstead, Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies. Expertise and research interests: Anthropology of conflict and violence, human rights, 'race', ethnicity and nationalism, diaspora, migration and publicness.
- Dr. Maja Korac-Sanderson, Reader in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies. Expertise and research interests: gender dimension of conflict and displacement; gender ethnicity, nationalism, and conflict; and refugee integration, particularly the role of social networks in settlement.
- Namita Chakrabarty, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education. Expertise and research interests: race narratives, performance, performativity and anti-terror legislation.
- Dr John Preston, Professor of Education, Cass School of Education. Expertise and Research interests: Whiteness studies, Critical Race Theory, Disaster Education and preparedness.
International advisory group
- Professor Kamel Abu Jaber, University of Jordan, and former Foreign Minister of Jordan.
- Dr. Michael W. Doyle, Harold Brown Professor of US Foreign and Security Policy, Columbia University Law School and School of International and Public Affairs.
- Professor Richard A. Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus, Princeton University, and Visiting Professor of Global Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Professor Ravindra Fernando, Director, Centre for the Study of Human Rights, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Andres Franco, UNICEF Representative in Peru, and former Ambassador of Colombia to the United Nations.
- Dr. Mudar Kassis, Director of the Institute of Law, Birzeit University, Palestine.
- Ellen Lutz, Director, Cultural Survival.
- Andrew Mack, Professor, Simon Fraser University, and Director, Liu Centre for Human Security.
- Dr. David M. Malone, President of the International Development Research Centre.
- Julie Mertus, Associate Professor, American University, and Co-Director, Center for Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs.
- Dr. Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Senior Research Associate, London Middle East Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies.
- Michelle Parlevliet, independent consultant to the World Bank on conflict sensitivity in community development and DANIDA adviser, conflict transformation, human rights and good governance.
- Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena, Director, Legal Unit, Law and Society Trust, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
- Professor Oliver P. Richmond, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, and Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of St. Andrews.
- Professor George Williams, Anthony Mason Professor and Director, Gilbert and Tobin Centre of Public Law, Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Australia.
- Dr. Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne, Lecturer, Griffith Law School, Australia
