Centre on Human Rights in Conflict
International Advisory Group and UEL Affiliates
The Centre on Human Rights in Conflict is managed by a Management Team, which is advised by an International Advisory Group drawn from practitioner and academic experts in conflict and human rights globally. Together with its staff and visiting staff, the Centre also includes affiliates from the University of East London working on related and relevant research topics.
Management Team
The management team is formed by John Strawson, Director, Olga Martin-Ortega, Senior Research Fellow, and Johanna Herman, Research Fellow.
International Advisory Group
Professor Chandra Lekha Sriram, Professor of Law, School of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Professor Sriram was the founding director of the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict and is Chair of the International Advisory Group.
- Professor Kamel Abu Jaber, University of Jordan, and former Foreign Minister of Jordan.
- Dr. Karin Aggestam, Associate Professor, Director, Peace and Conflict Studies, Lund University
- 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.
- Judge Howard Levenson,
Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Administrative Appeals Chamber), United Kingdom.
- Andrew Mack, Professor, Simon Fraser University, and Director, Liu Centre for Human Security.
- Dr. 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
UEL Affiliates
- Dr.
Giorgia Doná, Reader in Refugee Studies. Expertise and interests:
conflict and reconciliation, child and youth migration, and psycho-social assistance. Her research has a geographical focus on Central America and East Africa.
- 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.
- Nasmita Chakrabarty, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education. Expertise and research interests: race narratives, performance, performativity and anti-terror legislation.
- Dr Nimisha Patel, Senior Lecturer in clinical psychology. Expertise and research interests: critical clinical psychology, clinical psychology and social inequalities, torture, reparation.
- Dr John Preston, Professor of Education, Cass School of Education. Expertise and Research interests: Whiteness studies, Critical Race Theory, Disaster Education and preparedness.
