Fratricide and Fraternité
Lea Esterhuizen has focused substantively on state-sponsored violence and genocide as well as the needs and priorities of social entrepreneurs, refugees and children facing violence and deprivation. She has taught in the social sciences at universities in South Africa (University of Cape Town, University of Stellenbosch), and in the UK (University of London: Royal Holloway and the School of Advanced Study). Lea has also worked across a range of sectors (education sector, refugee sector, social entrepreneurship and child rights) and contexts (South Africa, UK, doctoral research in Bosnia Hercegovina and current work in countries across the MENA region). Her passion for participatory work with children on child rights research and action has led her into the work she is currently doing for Save the Children Sweden on their three year project: Civil Society for Child Society for Child Rights in the MENA Region. She is also currently working towards starting a new initiative to enable evidence-to-action projects driven by children and adult collaborators in South Africa. Sverker Finnström is associate professor in cultural anthropology. Starting from 1997, he has conducted recurrent fieldwork in Acholiland, northern Uganda, with a focus on young adults living in the immediate shadows of civil war. Besides his articles, popular and academic, he has authored Living with Bad Surroundings: War, History, and Everyday Moments in Northern Uganda (Duke University Press, 2008), for which he received the 2009 Margaret Mead Award. He divides his time between The Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, where he teaches, and The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, where he is a researcher in political violence and genocide studies. Finnström currently investigates violent conflict in emerging global realities, with the aim to develop an analytical framework that can advance our understanding of the global travels of war, made manifest in life stories and lived experiences, or what he calls existential fracture lines. Sara Fregonese is currently a British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow at Royal Holloway, Univeristy of London. Her PhD in Geography from Newcastle University in 2008 was entitled “City, war and geopolitics: Political violence and Beirut’s built environment in the Lebanese civil war”. Sara’s empirical research focuses on Lebanon, and adopts ethnographic methods to expose the everyday processes of urban contestation. Her interest develops around three thematic strands: urbicide and the role of the urban built environment in conflict; state and non-state geopolitical knowledges; and the violent geographies of sectarianism and Lebanon’s colonial past. In 2008 and 2009, Sara participated in the project “The Urban Environment: Mirror and Mediator of Radicalisation” (http://tinyurl.com/2avl76) within the ESRC/AHRC+FCO-funded programme “New Security Challenges: A Critical Reassessment”. The project investigates mutual links between urban materiality and social polarisation. Sara conducted fieldwork in Amsterdam, Beirut, and Belfast, Berlin and co-authored an FCO report about the utility of including urban and material aspects into the analysis of social polarisation (http://tinyurl.com/9ja8b7). Mary Fulbrook FBA is Professor of German History and Director of the Centre for European Studies at University College London. She is currently completing a book on generations and violence through the German dictatorships, and a book on Ordinary Nazis: Reflections on Memory, Terror and a Small Town in Poland. She is an expert on the history of the GDR, on which she has written widely, including Anatomy of a Dictatorship: Inside the GDR (OUP) and The People’s State: East German Society from Hitler to Honecker (Yale UP), as well as editing Power and Society in the GDR, 1961-79: The ‘Normalisation of Rule’? (Berghahn). Other books include: A Concise History of Germany (CUP); A History of Germany, 1918-2008: The Divided Nation (Blackwell); German National Identity after the Holocaust (Polity); as well as books on Historical Theory (Routledge); The Two Germanies: Problems of Interpretation (Macmillan); Piety and Politics (CUP); two short sixth-form textbooks on Hitler; and several edited books on European and German history. Formerly the founding Joint Editor of German History and Chair of the German History Society, she has also made a documentary film on the social history of the GDR, and is currently making a film concerning memory, memorialisation and the Holocaust, drawing on oral history interviews in Berlin, Auschwitz and Będzin. Julian Goodare is a Reader in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh. His current research interests are in early modern Scottish government, finance and politics, and the witch-hunt in Scotland and Europe. He is co-editing a book on Scotland in the Age of Two Revolutions (which was also a recent day conference). His own next book will be The European Witch-Hunt for Routledge. He has been Publication Secretary of the Scottish History Society (1989-2002). He was Director of the ESRC-funded Survey of Scottish Witchcraft which went online in 2003. Since 1998 he has been an Associate Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Paul Gready is Professor of Applied Human Rights and founding Director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights at the University of York. Paul has worked for Amnesty International (on East and Southern Africa, and India) and a number of other international and national human rights organisations, and has wide-ranging experience as a human rights consultant. Most of Paul’s practitioner and consultancy experience has been in Africa, with a particular focus on South Africa. He has served as a member of various advisory groups, for example on human rights and development (Amnesty International Dutch Section, Special Programme on Africa; Novib, Oxfam). His research and project work has been supported by funders including the ESRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. Linking academia and practice-based work, Paul has published on a number of human rights-related topics, notably transitional justice and human rights and development. His most recent book, Aftermaths: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid South Africa, is due to be published in 2010. Paul is the co-editor of a new journal, the Journal of Human Rights Practice. For over a decade he has also been involved in the development of interdisciplinary, practice-based human rights teaching curricula.
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