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3-10-2008 International Review of the Red Cross Editorial Board of the International Review of the Red Cross  Toni Pfanner, ICRC, Editor-in-Chief (Humanitarian Law and Humanitarian Action) **** Toni Pfanner, ICRC, Editor-in-Chief (Humanitarian Law and Humanitarian Action) Toni Pfanner is Editor-in-Chief of the International Review of the Red Cross. Before joining the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), he was assistant professor of private law at the Federal Polytechnical School in Zürich (Switzerland) and worked in a law chambers. From 1984, he was active as a delegate and head of delegation for the ICRC in Israel and the occupied territories, Iraq, Chad, South Africa, Afghanistan and in the regional delegation for South-East Asia in Jakarta. From 1993 to 1998, he was head of the legal division at ICRC's headquarters. Mr. Pfanner has taught in several universities and academies and is visiting professor at St.Thomas University in Miami (United States). He has published numerous articles on international humanitarian law and humanitarian action. He holds a doctorate in economics (University of St. Gallen) and a masters degree in law (University of Bern). Ahmed Abou El-Wafa, Cairo University, Egypt (International Law) Abou El-Wafa is professor of international law and the head of the international law department as well as the vice dean of the law faculty of the University of Cairo. He has published several books on issues of public international law, human rights, international humanitarian law and the international criminal court. In the field of international humanitarian law he has published several articles in French, English and Arabic, inter alia "La protection internationale des droits de l'homme", (Le Caire, 2000), "Le droit international humanitaire, ministère de la culture, conseil supérieur de la culture" and a report on Egypt's practice relating to customary rules of international humanitarian law. Daniel Bar-Tal, Tel Aviv University, Israel (Social and Political Psychology) Daniel Bar-Tal is professor of psychology at the School of Education and director of the Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education, Tel Aviv University. He is also co-editor of the Palestine-Israel Journal. He served as the President of the International Society of Political Psychology (1999-2000). In 1991, he was awarded the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Prize of SPSSI and in 2000-2001 he was awarded the Golestan Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Science. His research interest is in political and social psychology studying psychological foundations of intractable conflicts and peace making. Specifically, he focuses on those societal beliefs and collective emotional orientations which feed the conflicts and those which facilitate conflict resolution and reconciliation. He authored Group Beliefs (Springer-Verlag, New York,1990), Shared Beliefs in a Society (Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2000) and Stereotypes and Prejudice in Conflict: Arab Representation in the Israeli Jewish Society (with Yona Teichman, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004) and co-edited Social Psychology of Intergroup Relations (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1988), Stereotyping and Prejudice (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989), Patriotism in the Lives of Individuals and Nations (Nelson Hall, Chicago, 1997), Concerned with Security (JAI, Stamford, CT, 1998), How Children Understand War and Peace (Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 1999) and Patriotism: Homeland Love (Hakibbutz Hamuahad, Tel Aviv, 2004). In addition he has published over one hundred articles and chapters in major social and political psychological journals and books. Annette Becker, University Paris X-Nanterre, France (Contemporary History) Annette Becker is professor of contemporary history at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and co-director of the Centre de recherche de l'Historial de la Grande Guerre in Péronne, France. Her research focuses on the two world wars. Her publications include works on the particular kinds of violence suffered by civilians in the concentration camps. Oubliés de la Grande Guerre: humanitaire et culture de guerre, populations occupées, déportés civils, prisonniers de guerre (Paris, Noêsis, 1998); Maurice Halbwachs: un intellectuel en guerres mondiales 1914-1945 (Paris, Agnès Viénot, 2003). Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, University of Brasilia, Brazil (International Law) Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade has served as judge, vice-president and president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He has been the executive director of the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, the legal adviser of the Ministry of Foreign Relations of Brazil and has acted as United Nations Expert and Lecturer at the United Nations' World Consultation on the Right to Development as a Human Right. He is a permanent professor of international law at the University of Brasilia as well as at the Diplomatic Academy Rio Branco of Brazil. He has also been a lecturer at various institutions, among them The Hague Academy of International Law and the Diplomatic Italian Institute in Florence. He has received numerous academic as well as professional distinctions and he has published more than 360 studies as monographs, book chapters or as articles in renowned journals of international and human rights law throughout the world. Marika Fahlen, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Sweden (Humanitarian Aid and Development) Marika Fahlen is Ambassador at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and was most recently the Director for Social Mobilization and Strategic Information at UNAIDS in Geneva. She has held different positions at the Ministry and at SIDA (the Swedish Development Cooperation Agency), such as Ambassador for Humanitarian Affairs. She has also been the Director for Technical Cooperation in a Government agency and worked for UNDP and UNHCR. She was the Chair of the OECD/DAC Task Force on conflict and development leading the development of the Guidelines for aid agencies on "Helping prevent violent conflicts". She also served as vice-chair at the 27th International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, leading the negotiations on "Humanitarian action in times of armed conflict and other disasters" as well as "Strategic partnership to improve the lives of vulnerable people". Marika Fahlen has published various studies and publications on aid and development. She has also served on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group (ICG). Bernard Haykel, Princeton University, USA (Islamic Studies) Bernard Haykel is professor of Near Eastern studies at Princeton University. From 1998 to July 2007, he was professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. His main research interests centre on Islamic political movements and legal thought. He is presently completing a book on the religious politics of Saudi Arabia. He has published extensively on the Salafi movement in both its pre-modern and modern manifestations. In particular, his book entitled Revival and Reform in Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2003) fully explores this strand of Islamic legal and political thought in Yemen. Venkateswara S. Mani, Jaipur National University, India (International Law) Venkateswara. S. Mani is director of the School of Law and Governance at Jaipur National University, Rajastan. From 2004 until November 2007, he was professor of international law and the director of the Gujarat National Law University. From 1990 until 2004, he was professor of International Space Law at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. He has taught on various branches of International Law, has been a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Public International Law in Germany and visiting professor at the International Centre for Comparative Law & Politics at the University of Tokyo. In 2005 he will deliver lectures on the topic of humanitarian intervention at the Hague Academy of International Law. Professor Mani is currently Executive President of the Indian Society of International Law, editor of the India Journal of International Law and acts as well as one of the editors of the Indian Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law. Professor Mani has acted as agent and legal counsel for the Republic of Nauru before the ICJ in the case concerning Certain Phosphate Lands in Nauru (Nauru v. Australia), he has been the legal counsel and expert consultant for India in the case concerning the Aerial Incident of 10 August 1999 (Pakistan v. India). Herfried Münkler, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany (Political Sciences) Herfried Münkler is professor of political science at the Humboldt University of Berlin. His research interests are inter alia focused on political theory as well as the theory and history of war. Professor Münkler has published extensively in these fields, inter alia he is the author of "Die neuen Kriege" and "Der neue Golfkrieg". He has been engaged in various research projects with the Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, has held several editorial positions with renowned journals of political science and he is the head of the International Marx-Engels foundation in Amsterdam. Mona Rishmawi, Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Human Rights) Mona Rishmawi is currently the legal Advisor of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Head of OHCHR's Rule of Law and Democracy Unit. From 2 June to 19August 2003, she was the Senior Human Rights and Gender Advisor to UN Special Representative in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, in Baghdad. From November 2000 until June 2003, she was the Senior Adviser to two UN High Commissioner for Human Rights: Sergio Vieira de Mello and Mary Robison. From 1996 to 2000, she was the UN Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Somalia. From May 1998 to May 1999 she served as the Chairperson of the UN Special Rapporteurs and other independent experts' meeting. From 1991 to 2000, she was the Director of the Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) (Geneva, Switzerland), and until 1997 she was also the ICJ's Legal Officer for the Middle East and North Africa. She received the Carter-Menil Human Rights Award on behalf of al-Haq in 1989, a Palestinian human rights organization which she helped found and later directed. She practiced law for 10 years in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. Mona Rishmawi has a Masters of Law (LL.M.) from Columbia University (New York, USA) and a Bachelor of Law (LL.B.) from Ain Shams University (Cairo, Egypt). She has published widely on various human rights and humanitarian law topics, including the protection of civilians in time of war, UN assistance in the field of human rights, the independence of the judiciary and women's rights. Elizabeth Salmón Gárate, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Peru (International Law) Elizabeth Salmón Gárate is professor at the Law School of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and the Academic Coordinator of the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights of the same university (IDEHPUCP) where she coordinates the Diploma on human rights. Author of publications on public international law, international law of human rights, international criminal law and international humanitarian law. Former consultant to the Ministry of Justice (during the transitional government), Ministry of Defense, Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Marco Sassòli, University of Geneva, Switzerland (International Law) Marco Sassòli is professor of international law at the University of Geneva and heads the board of the University Centre for International Humanitarian Law in Geneva. He cooperates regularly for research and dissemination of international humanitarian law with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research. He worked from 1985-1997 for the International Committee of the Red Cross at the headquarters, inter alia as deputy head of its legal division, and in the Middle East and the Balkans. His main areas of interest are international humanitarian law (in particular its relevance for new types of conflicts, armed groups and the law of military occupation), sources of international law and the law on State responsibility. Michael N. Schmitt, George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Michael N. Schmitt is Dean at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, from mid-August 2008. He was the 2007-2009 Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, USA. Prior to assuming the Chair, he was Professor of International Law and Director, Programme in Advanced Security Studies, at the George C. Marshall European Centre for Security Studies, in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. He has also served on the faculties of the United States Naval War College and the United States Air Force Academy, and has extensive operational and international law experience as a US Air Force judge advocate. He has published widely in the field of humanitarian law, serves on the Executive Board of the American Society of International Law's Lieber Society and Harvard University's International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative's Steering Committee, and is an elected Member of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law. Terence Taylor, International Council for the Life Sciences, USA Terence Taylor is the Director of the International Council for the Life Sciences and the President of its Board of Directors. He was a member of the Directing Staff of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and President and Executive Director of IISS-US. His main focus of work is at the intersection of science technology and international security policy. On one track he is co-director of a project aimed at developing a charter for a code of conduct for life scientists in academia and private industry on safe, secure and ethical behaviour. On another track he is leading a project seeking to advance concepts and methodologies for risk assessment for high-level policymakers faced with complex emergencies. Other areas of work include projects on developments in political Islam in Turkey, security in South Asia and Latin American regional studies. Bakhtiyar R. Tuzmukhamedov, Diplomatic Academy of Moscow, Russian Federation (International Law) Bakhtiyar R. Tuzmukhamedov is professor of International Law, Diplomatic Academy (Moscow). He joined the research staff of the Diplomatic Academy in 1984 and became docent in 1990 and professor in 2003. In 1992 he became a staff member of the newly-established Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. He currently is the Counselor of the Court and advises both judges and staff on matters of international law. At various times he served as a member of his country’s delegation to the UN, an adjunct to the Soviet Embassy in Washington, DC, a UN civil affairs officer and political advisor to the British Cavalry Battalion in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an expert for the International Committee of the Red Cross. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Moscow Journal of International Law, member of Executive Board of the Russian Association of International Law, co-rapporteur of the Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament Law of the International Law Association. (Diploma of International Jurist, 1977, Candidate of Juridical Science, 1984, Moscow Institute of International Relations; LL.M., Harvard Law School, 1994). Peter Walker, Feinstein International Center, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, USA (climate change and disasters, humanitarian accountability, organizational change) Peter Walker is Irwin H. Rosenberg Professor of Nutrition and Human Security, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Director of Alan Shawn Feinstein International Center since September 2002 and active in development and disaster response since 1979, Peter Walker has worked for a number of British-based NGOs and environmental organizations in several African countries, as well as having been a university lecturer and director of a food wholesaling company. Peter joined the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva in 1990, where he was Director of Disaster Policy for 10 years before moving to Bangkok as Head of the Federation's regional programs for Southeast Asia. He has travelled extensively in the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, and has published widely on subjects as diverse as the development of indigenous knowledge and famine early warning systems, to the role of military forces in disaster relief. He was the founder and manager of the World Disasters Report and played a key role in initiating and developing both the Code of Conduct for disaster workers and the Sphere humanitarian standards. He holds a Ph.D. in Soil Science, Sheffield University, United Kingdom. Wen-qi Zhu, Renmin University of China, People's Republic of China (International Law) Wen-qi Zhu is professor at Renmin University of China, Beijing. He is an expert of international criminal law and of international humanitarian law. He has worked in the Chinese Foreign Ministry as a Legal Advisor for more than eight years. He worked as well in the Sixth Commission of the UN General Assembly and in the UN Security Council in the Chinese Delegation. He has a more than seven years experience in the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague (Appeals Council in the Office of the Prosecutor). |
