RICHARD PIERRE CLAUDE is Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Twice a Fulbright Research Scholar in Asia, Claude has written extensively about human rights education, including Educating for Human Rights: The Philippines and Beyond (1997) and Human Rights Education for the 21st Century (1997, co-authored with George Andreopoulos). He has extensive experience in developing countries and served as a "trainer of trainers" in human rights education methodology in Cambodia, Ethiopia, and the Philippines. His manual, Popular Education for Human Rights has been produced in fourteen languages. Claude was the Founding Editor of Human Rights Quarterly and a co-founder of Physicians for Human Rights. He was elected to the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which sponsored his co-edited book (with Thomas Jabine) on Human Rights and Statistics, Getting the Record Straight, in 1992.

SARAH WARSHAUER FREEDMAN, Professor in the Graduate School of Education, served as Co-Principal Investigator on “Education for Reconciliation: Building a History Curriculum after Genocide,” a project with the National University of Rwanda.

VINCENT IACOPINO, MD, PhD, Senior Medical Advisor to Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and Adjunct Professor of Medicine with the University of Minnesota Medical School, has participated in health and human rights research, investigations and advocacy for more than sixteen years. Dr. Iacopino has represented PHR and/or supervised medical fact-finding investigations to Thailand, Punjab, Kashmir, Turkey, South Africa, Afghanistan, Albania, Macedonia, Kosovo, Chechyna, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Mexico, Botswana, Swaziland, Iraq, Sudan and the United States and documented the health consequences of a wide range of human rights violations. He is the former Medical Director of Survivors International of Northern California, a non-profit organization providing medical and psychological assistance to survivors of torture from around the world. Dr. Iacopino was the principal organizer of an international effort to develop UN guidelines on effective investigation and documentation of torture and ill treatment (the Istanbul Protocol) and has served as a consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. He has been one of the pioneers in conceptualizing the relationship between health and human rights. He has taught Health and Human Rights courses at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health since 1995 and is the author of more than sixty health and human rights publications. In 2004, Dr. Iacopino received The Center for Victims of Torture’s Eclipse Award for extraordinary service on behalf of torture survivor. In 2005, he also received the Distinguished Alumni Award from the Department of Medicine of the University of Minnesota.

ANDREW MOSS, Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology at the University  of California, San Francisco is a researcher at the AIDS Research Institute. He has participated in HRC’s research on infectious diseases and human rights in Burma and its border regions, and on attitudes toward peace and justice in northern Uganda.

GILLES PERESS is a photographer with The New Yorker and recipient of the 1996 International Center of Photography Infinity Award among many others. He has been with Magnum Photos, the prestigious photography agency founded by Robert Capa, since 1971. His photographs are exhibited in and collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Chicago Art Institute; and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among others. His books include Telex Iran: In the Name of the Revolution, The Silence, Farewell to Bosnia, The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar (with Eric Stover), and A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo (with Fred Abrahams and Eric Stover).
 

HARVEY WEINSTEIN, Clinical Professor in the School of Public Health, worked in the Balkans (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia) and Rwanda for more than five years. He was Co-Principal Investigator on three recent projects: "Communities in Crisis: Justice, Accountability, and Social Reconstruction in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia," "Intrastate Conflict and Social Reconstruction," and "Education for Reconciliation." With Eric Stover, he co-edited the book My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity (2004). He also directed the Forced Migration and Health Project. He has worked on projects in South Africa, Kenya, Indonesia, Albania, Uganda, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, and Iraq. He authored a book on U.S. experimentation on unwitting human subjects entitled Psychiatry and the CIA: Victims of Mind Control. He serves as Co-editor in Chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice, a collaboration of the Human Rights Center and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg.

LAURENT BECUE-RENARD is a documentary filmmaker. He published numerous first-person accounts of the war in Bosnia when he was the editor-in-chief of Sarajevo Online (1995–96). He also wrote and directed a documentary film War-Wearied / That the women live (De guerre lasses / Vivre Après, Paroles de femmes) on the psycho-social aftermath among women and families following the war (2000 and 2003 for theatrical release). The film won several international awards, including the Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2001.

During his appointment with HRC, Mr. Bécue-Renard will develop and direct another documentary film, on the psychological legacy of war among veterans of the U.S. war in Iraq and Afghanistan now living the Bay Area. He has received a Fulbright grant for his work in the U.S. for the 2008–09 academic year.

SONIA FOURNIER, Professor, Department of Education Science at the University of Quebec, Rimouski (Canada), is conducting a qualitative, comparative study building on her experience with genocide survivors in Rwanda. This project will analyze certain countries where war and genocide are present (Uganda, Burundi, Sudan, etc.) in order to produce a comparative analysis of human rights and the protection of children. Professor Fournier will in turn develop pedagogical tools in order to teach about children’s rights, utilizing images and taking multiple intelligences into consideration. 

Past Visiting Scholars

PATRICK BALL is the Director of the Human Rights Program at the Benetech Initiative which includes the Martus project and the Human Rights Data Analysis Group. Since 1991, Dr. Ball has designed information management systems and conducted statistical analysis for large-scale human rights data projects used by truth commissions, nongovernmental organizations, tribunals and United Nations missions in El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, South Africa, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Perú, Timor-Leste, Sierra Leone, and Chad.

MYCHELLE BALTHAZARD is a Ph.D. candidate at Tulane University. She has collaborated with the Human Rights Center Initiative on Vulnerable Populations, including the studies So We Will Never Forget: Population-Based Survey on Attitudes about Social Reconstruction and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia and Abducted. The Lord’s Resistance Army and Forced Conscription in Northern Uganda.

KARL SCHOENBERGER is an independent researcher whose work focuses on human rights and the corporation. He is the author of Levi's Children: Coming to Terms with Human Rights in the Global Marketplace (2000), which investigated corporate social responsibility and human rights policy in the apparel and shoe industries. His current work builds on this project by examining trends in the high-technology sector.

DAVID TULLER is a professional journalist and graduate of UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. He is working on a research project spearheaded by UCSF looking at the impact of food insecurity on HIV transmission and adherence to medication regimens in Uganda.

Past Fellows