Dolores DONOVAN, JD

Dolores DONOVAN is a professor and the director of international programming at the University of San Fransisco School of Law (California, USA).  She specializes in constitutional and comparative law and her publications deal with the legal systems of developing nations and criminal justice systems. Her articles can be found in domestic and foreign law journals, ranging from peer-reviewed publications such as the American Journal of Comparative Law to the Ethiopian Law Review. DONOVAN is a consultant to foundations and government international development agencies. Her involvement with  Cambodia began in 1989 when she led a Human Rights Watch mission to Site 2 to monitor on-going human rights abuses reported by Khmer Rouge defectors. In 1993 Donovan served as one of three foreign advisors to the Cambodian Constitutional Drafting  Committee.  Between 1993 and 1999 she directed the Cambodia Law and Democracy Program and has published widely on the evolution of the Cambodian legal system. She was the South Asia regional senior equity advisor to the U.S. Agency for International Development, a senior Fulbright Professor at the Ethiopian Civil Service College, a visiting scholar at Harvard Law School, and a visiting professor at the UC Hastings College of Law and the East China Institute of Politics and Law in Shanghai.  Professor DONOVAN received both her BA and JD from Stanford University (USA).

Catherine FILLOUX

Catherine FILLOUX is a playwright who focuses on genocide and other human rights issues.  Her body of work showcases her dedication to these issues. To date, she has written four plays that address the Cambodian genocide: Eyes of the Heart, Photographs from S-21, Silence of God, and Where Elephants Weep. Her interest was piqued after reading of the psychosomatic blindness suffered by a group of Cambodian women who witnessed the massacres of the Khmer Rouge.   The stories of these women formed the basis of her play Eyes of the Heart. She continued to work with survivors of the Cambodian genocide, developing the oral history project “A Circle of Grace” with the Cambodian Women's Group at St. Rita's Center for Immigration and Refugee Services in the Bronx, New York. Photographs from S-21 has been produced in many different countries, including Cambodia. In her article, “Here and There,” FILLOUX writes, “Through my playwriting work regarding genocide and human rights, I share with [Mu] Sochua the faith that change is possible and we can make it happen.”

Her plays exploring human rights do not end with Cambodia. Her newest play, Dog and Wolf, grapples with both the Bosnian genocide and political asylum in the U.S.  Her play The Beauty Inside is about an attempted honor killing and was workshopped in Arabic, in Morocco, before being produced in New York.   Lemkin’s House follows Raphael Lemkin, the man who invented the word genocide, into the afterlife and asks how his soul can rest in peace when the Rwandan and Bosnian genocides are occurring.

She penned the libretto for the opera, Where Elephants Weep, a commission by Cambodian Living Arts.  An international collaborative piece, the opera previewed in Lowell, Massachusetts in 2007 and opened in Phnom Penh in November 2008.  The opera is sung in Khmer and English with subtitles in both languages.  A fusion of traditional Cambodia and the modern West, this work combines musical styles to create a Cambodian American Rock Opera.  She is also the librettist for The Floating Box (Composer Jason Kao Hwang), released by New World Records and a Critic’s Choice in Opera News.  
    
It should not be surprising that FILLOUX’s work does not end here.  She has served extensively as a speaker for human rights and playwriting conferences and organizations around the world, including Amnesty International; RCN Justice & Démocratie, Brussels; Shared Spaces Youth Culture Arts Network, Sligo, Ireland; California Institute of the Arts; Brandeis University; TCG; The Bushwick School for Social Justice; and Boston’s StageSource.          

In addition to writing plays, FILLOUX has written articles, appearing in American Theatre, Manoa, The Drama Review, Contemporary Theatre Review (UK), and the Drama Guild Quarterly.  She has worked as a French Translator for various plays and pieces of literature.  She has been honored with many awards, fellowships, and grants, including New Generations-Future Collaborations Award (Mellon Foundation/TCG), PeaceWriting Award (Omni Center for Peace), Roger L. Stevens Award (Kennedy Center), Eric Kocher Playwrights Award (O'Neill), Callaway Award (New Dramatists), Fulbright Senior Specialist (Cambodia and Morocco), William Inge Center for the Arts Playwright-In-Residence, Thurber Playwright-In-Residence, Asian Cultural Council Grant, Winner Nausicaa Franco-American Play Contest, Rockefeller MAP Fund (for The Breach and The Floating Box), 5-time Heideman Award Finalist (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Juror for 2004 MES International Theater Festival, Sarajevo, Core Writer of The Playwrights’ Center, and New Dramatists alumna.      

A Collection of five of her new plays, “Silence of God and Other Plays” will be released this year by Seagull Books, with introductions for each play by leading scholars, who provide context and commentary on the range of FILLOUX’s drama. This profile was slighly modified from her biography found at www.catherinefilloux.com.

Augusto MICLAT

Augusto "Gus" MICLAT is the executive director of the Initiatives for International Dialogue, an advocacy and solidarity organization based in the Philippines with campaigns and programs in East Timor, Mindanao and Burma. Gus was a humanities graduate at the Ateneo de Davao University, where he also taught journalism and theatre, among others. He has worked as a program officer for the Asia Council for Peoples Culture, as the executive editor of the Media-Mindanao News Service, and as a co-director at the Initiatives for International Dialogue. He has been an editor and contributor to many books, including: Burma for Beginners (1998), East Timor for Beginners (1997), Primer on Globalization (1997), Breaking the Silence (1995), Beyond the Cold War (1992), From Boardroom to the Slums (1990) and Out of the Valley of Dry Bones (1990).

Freddy Mutanguha

Mr. Mutanguha is the director of the Kigali Memorial Center at Gisozi in Kigali, Rwanda.  Coping with the loss of both of his parents and four sisters to the genocide in 1994 by becoming an advocate for peace and human rights education, he is an inspiring leader for the survivor community in Rwanda and beyond.  He is a coordinating member of the Aegis Trust and has taken US President George W. Bush and Chelsea Clinton on tours of the memorial center.  Mr. Mutanguha was also one of the people responsible for coordinating countrywide events for the 15th commemoration of the genocide in April 2009.  He frequently travels internationally as a speaker on genocide and reconstruction.

Caitlin Reiger, LLM

Prany SANANIKONE

Mr. Prany currently serves as Director of Diversity Relations and Educational Programs at the Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity (OEOD) at the University of California, Irvine (USA). There, he is known for his knowledge, sensitivity, and commitment to multiculturalism. Prany attended the University of Hawaii and was awarded a BA in education and a BA in sociology (specializing in community development). He has also earned an MA in communications. In 1990, he began working at the University of California, Irvine at the University Extension as the director of Health, Education, and Community Programs. In 1994, he joined the OEOD. Mr. Prany designs, develops and implements community outreach plans and programs; facilitates the development and execution of workshops on various equal opportunity/diversity topics; and works with the community agencies, UCI offices/departments, and university committees and associations that are involved in diversity-related issues. Prany coordinates the Diversity Development Certificate Program and co-directs the Diversity in Medicine course. He also serves as a mentor to students and interns who work with him on diversity programs. This profile was modified from the University of California, Irvine's website.

Dr. Christian SCHERRER, PhD

Christian SCHERRER has been the professor for peace and conflict studies at Hiroshima Peace Institute (HPI), Hiroshima City University, Japan, since 2002, initiated by the International Comparative Genocide Research (ICGR) project. Dr. SCHERRER obtained his PhD in philosophy at the University of Berne in 1985. Earlier he was a senior researcher at Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI), and head of IFEK-IRECOR from 1999 to 2001. He was an eyewitness to genocide and mass violence in Rwanda, Burma, Sudan, East Timor and Guatemala. He worked for the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights (UNHCHR) in Rwanda between 1994 and 1995. Dr. SCHERRER founded of the Ethnic Conflict Research Project, ECOR, in 1986 and subsequently carried out genocide research in some of the world's most deadly areas and developed peace strategies for several countries and conflicts.

He is author of a very influential UN study on the reconstruction of the judicial system in post-genocidal Rwanda, presented to the UNHCHR and to the government of Rwanda in February of 1995. This report involved modernizing/modifying Rwanda's age-old gacaca jurisdictions and establishing investigation commissions on large crimes. The report's reccomendations were implemented for gacaca from March 1999, in a pilot phase in 2002, and country-wide in 2005, ending in 2009. Gacaca became the largest ever operation in justice after genocide, with thousands of courts dealing with as many a 1.5 million perpetrators in only ten years.

Dr. SCHERRER is also author of Bosnia's national justice strategy (United Nations Development Program, 2005), implemented only partially in 2009 due to lack of political will. He has been a contributor of expertise to the UN system (HCHR, UNDP, UNV), OECD-DAC, CPN of the EU Commission; INGOs, grass roots NGOs, and organizations or elder councils of indigenous peoples. He wrote and edited over three dozen books and about one hundred articles and book chapters on justice, violence prevention, peace issues, ethnic conflict, genocide and mass violence. In the 1990s he published on ethno-nationalism and genocide in Rwanda (Widerspruch 1995; Campus, 1997). His recent books include Structural Prevention of Ethnic Violence (Palgrave, 2002), Ethnicity, Nationalism and Violence (Ashgate, 2003), Genocide and Crisis in Central Africa (Praeger, 2001), Responses to Genocide (2010, forthcoming) and the edited books Silent Death - The Use of Horrific Uranium Weapons and Genocide by Sanctions (both 2010), which deal with mass violence and remedies, such as justice after genocide, UN reform, post-conflict reconstruction and structural violence prevention.

Dr. Paul SCOTT, PhD

Dr. Paul SCOTT is an academic with expertise in conflict resolution and peace-building in Asia. He earned his BA in Chinese and Asian studies at Seton Hall University (USA) and, in 1977, received an MA in comparative political analysis and international relations from New York Univeristy (USA). He later taught at National Taiwan University and Nagoya International School in Japan.

In 1985 he completed an MA in Chinese and a PhD in Japanese history at the University of Tokyo before teaching again, this time at Kansai Gaidai University. Today he is a steering committee member of the Alliance for Reform and Democracy in Asia, and an advisor to the Zorig Foundation in Mongolia. Dr. SCOTT is associate editor for the Intercultural Research Institute at Kansai Gaidai University, political editor for the Kansai Timeout and a consultant for the Kyoto Journal. With the exception of two years in residence in Virginia, Dr. SCOTT has lived in East Asia since 1975.

Dr. SCOTT currently lectures on the democratisation of the developing world in Sydney University's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (Australia) via distance education.

Dr. Toni SHAPIRO-PHIM, PhD

Dr. Toni SHAPIRO-PHIM is a dance ethnologist and anthropologist whose research focuses on dance and cultural/political upheaval, and gender issues, with a specialty in the arts of Cambodia. She is the coauthor of Dance in Cambodia (Oxford University Press, 1999) and Dance, Human Rights, and Social Justice: Dignity in Motion (Scarecrow Press, 2008). She received her PhD in cultural anthropology from Cornell University. Her writing is included in the collection Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (University of California Press, 2002), as well as in Shifting Sands: Dance in Asia and Pacific (World Dance Alliance, 2006), Encyclopedia of Asian Theatre (Greenwood Press, 2008), among other publications.

She has taught in the Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and in the Department of Dance at San Jose State University. She was also a research scholar at Yale University's Cambodian Genocide Program. She has been a consultant for the Asian Society and Leveraging Investments in Creativity (LINC). Before joining the staff of Khmer Arts in 2008, she worked with the Philadelphia Folklore Project, an urban arts and social justice organization. She is currently the archivist for the Khmer Arts Academy, from which this profile was modified.

Dr. Gregory STANTON, PhD, JD

Dr. Gregory STANTON is the founder (1999) and president of Genocide Watch, the founder (1981) and director of the Cambodian Genocide Project, and the founder (1999) and Chair of the International Campaign to End Genocide. From 2007 to 2009 he was the President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

Actively involved in human rights since the 1960s, when Dr. STANTON was a voting rights worker in Mississippi, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Ivory Coast, and as the Church World Service/CARE Field Director in Cambodia in 1980. He has been a law professor at Washington and Lee University, American University and a Fulbright Professor at the University of Swaziland. STANTON is the James Farmer Professor in Human Rights at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. He has degrees from Oberlin College, Harvard Divinity School, Yale Law School, and a PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Chicago. He was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars between 2001-2002.

In 1981 Dr. STANTON founded the Cambodian Genocide Project at Yale University (USA) and since then has been a driving force to bring the Khmer Rouge to justice. STANTON was deeply involved in the U.N.-Cambodian government negotiations that have brought about the creation of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal, for which he has drafted internal rules of procedure and evidence.

Dr. STANTON served in the State Department (1992-1999), where he drafted the United Nations Security Council resolutions that created the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the Burundi Commission of Inquiry, and the Central African Arms Flow Commission. He also drafted the U.N. Peacekeeping Operations resolutions that helped bring about an end to the Mozambique civil war. In 1994, STANTON won the American Foreign Service Association's prestigious W. Averell Harriman award for "extraordinary contributions to the practice of diplomacy exemplifying intellectual courage," based on his dissent from U.S. policy on the Rwandan genocide. He wrote the State Department options paper on ways to bring the Khmer Rouge to justice in Cambodia.

Dr. STANTON left the State Department in 1999 to found Genocide Watch. From 1999 to 2000, he also served as Co-Chair of the Washington Working Group for the International Criminal Court. Genocide Watch is the Chair and Coordinator of the International Campaign to End Genocide, which includes 30 organizations in 11 countries, including the Minority Rights Group, the International Crisis Group, the Aegis Trust, Survival International, and the Genocide Intervention Network.

Before he joined the State Department, STANTON was a legal advisor to RUKH, the Ukrainian independence movement, work for which he was named the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America's 1992 Man of the Year. He was the Chair of the American Bar Association Young Lawyer's Division Committee on Human Rights and a member of the A.B.A.'s Standing Committee on World Order Under Law. In 2007, STANTON was elected President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars and served until 2009. He was also First Vice President of the Association from 2005 to 2007.

This biography was modified for CJR from Wikipedia.org.

Dr. Johan VON SCHREEB, MD, PhD

Dr. Johan von Schreeb is a medical doctor specialised in general surgery.  In 2007 he obtained a PhD from Karolinska Institutet (Sweden).  For the past twenty years he has worked in humanitarian disasters worldwide for Medecins sans Frontieres, MSF (also known as Doctors Without Borders) and other agencies including Merlin and the World Health Organization.  In 1999 he was president and founder of the Swedish MSF section and co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. von Schreeb worked for MSF in Cambodia between 1999-2001 in an innovative health-financing project aimed at kick starting health sector reform. He developed a health equity fund that was later scaled up by the World Bank to include large parts of Cambodia.  Dr. von Schreeb currently leads a research group at Karolinska Institutet which aims to uncover evidence on how to best medically assist populations affected by sudden onset disasters and regularly works in disaster areas conducting rapid needs assessments and evaluations of health programmes.

On a part time basis he practices as a surgeon focusing on rapid diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer.  In addition to these endeavours, he also writes books and runs an art gallery.