The Oxford Handbook of Gender and Conflict

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Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin holds both the Regents Professorship at the University of Minnesota and Robina Chair in Law Public Policy and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School and is Professor of Law at the University of Ulster's Transitional Justice Institute in Belfast Northern Ireland. In 2003 she was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations as Special Expert on promoting gender equality in times of conflict and peace-making. In 2011 she completed a Study on Reparations for Conflict Related Sexual Violence for the OHCHR and UN WOMEN. She has served as an Expert Consultant for the International Criminal Court and the Council of Europe. Her book Law in Times of Crisis was awarded the American Society of International Law's preeminent prize in 2007 - the Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship. Naomi Cahn is Justice Anthony M. Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Law and Nancy L. Buc '69 Research Professor in Democracy and Equity at University of Virginia School of Law. She has written numerous law review articles and books in the areas of family law international law and domestic violence including On the Frontlines: Gender War and the Post-Conflict Process (co-authored with Professors Fionnuala Ní Aoláin and Dina Haynes (OUP 2011)). Professor Cahn has been a long-time member of the Executive Committee of the Women in International Law Interest Group (WILIG) of the American Society of International Law. From 2002 to 2004 Professor Cahn was on leave in Kinshasa Congo where she worked on issues concerning international criminal justice and sexual violence. Dina Francesca Haynes is Professor of Law at New England Law international organizations (Director General of the Human Rights Department for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Bosnia-Herzegovina Human Rights Advisor to the OSCE in Serbia and Montenegro Protection Officer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and has received assignments with the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. Professor Haynes was also an attorney for the United States Department of Justice and clerked on the Constitutional Court of South Africa. She researches writes and engages in policy work and legal advocacy in the areas of human trafficking international organizations post-conflict reconstruction human rights law immigration refugee law and migration. Nahla Valji is the Senior Gender Adviser in the United Nations' Executive Office of the Secretary-General. Prior to this she was the Acting Chief/ Deputy Chief of the Peace and Security section in UN Women's headquarters in New York where she led f the organization's work on peacekeeping peace negotiations transitional justice and rule of law involving both global programming and policy work particularly with regards to the Security Council. She headed the Secretariat for the Global Study on implementation of resolution 1325 a comprehensive study requested by the Security Council for the 15-year review of women peace and security and was the founder and editor of the International Journal of Transitional Justice published by Oxford University Press. Prior to joining the UN Nahla worked in South Africa where she led the regional transitional justice work of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and managed the African Transitional Justice Research Network.