Kamari M. Clarke is Professor of Global and International Studies at Carleton University. Her research explores issues related to legal institutions, human rights and international law and the interface between culture, power and globalisation. She has held numerous prestigious fellowships, grants and awards, the most recent being a large three-year National Science Foundation research grant on the relationship between the ICC and Africa. Her publications in this area include International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism in Sub-Saharan Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and Mirrors of Justice: Law and Power in the Post-Cold War Era (with Mark Goodale, Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Stephen Smith Cody is Director of the Atrocity Response Program at the Human Rights Center at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. He holds a PhD in sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, a JD from Berkeley Law School and an MPhil in social anthropology from Cambridge University. A former Fulbright Fellow and Truman Scholar, he has contributed to reports at Human Rights Watch and co-authored reports and articles on various topics within international criminal law. His current research focuses on victims’ participation in proceedings at the International Criminal Court. He is an active member of the California Bar.

Solomon A. Dersso serves as Commissioner at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights. Adjunct Professor of Law at the College of Law and Governance at Addis Ababa University and an analyst of African affairs, among other roles, he initiated and published a new yearly publication, the Annual Review of the AU Peace and Security Council, for which he received the ISS’s innovation award in 2014. His recent publications have covered issues such as the responsibility to protect and Africa’s relationship with the International Criminal Court.

Kristin C. Doughty is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Rochester, New York. She has been conducting research on the political, legal and cultural dynamics of reconciliation in Rwanda since 2002, including undertaking twenty months of ethnographic fieldwork in Rwanda conducted in Kinyarwanda, French and English. She is currently finishing a book manuscript entitled Remediation of Rwanda: Harmony and Punishment in Grassroots Legal Forums, which examines the contradictory dynamics in how the Rwandan government embedded reconciliation efforts in grassroots legal forums. She has published her research for academic and practitioner audiences, and has presented this work at conferences in the United States, Canada, Rwanda and Israel.

Sammy G. Gachigua is a Kenyan researcher working towards a PhD in applied linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. His thesis focuses on the tensions between power-elite and public interests in Kenyan parliamentary debates using a discourse-historical approach. His research interests include: critical discourse analysis; argumentation theory; parliamentary, media and political discourses; cartoon research; and power and ideology.

Sara Kendall is Lecturer in International Law at the University of Kent, UK. She received her doctorate from the University of California at Berkeley, where she conducted research on the Special Court for Sierra Leone, followed by a four-year project at Leiden University investigating the socio-political effects of International Criminal Court interventions in African states. She has previously taught international law and international relations at Leiden University and at the University of Amsterdam.

Abel S. Knottnerus is a Junior Scholar in International Law, History and International Relations. His research focuses on the law and politics of international courts and explores the interplay between perceptions, power and justice. He holds a Master of Law in international and European law, as well as a Research Master in modern history and international relations from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Knottnerus is currently a PhD researcher at the University of Groningen.

Alexa Koenig, JD, PhD, is Executive Director of the Human Rights Center and a Lecturer in Residence at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Her most recent publications include Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror (2016; co-authored with Eric Stover and Victor Peskin) and Extreme Punishment (2015; co-edited with Keramet Reiter). Koenig currently serves as a member of the Technology Advisory Board of the Office of the Prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

Patryk I. Labuda is a PhD Candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies and a Teaching Assistant at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. He previously worked in Sudan and South Sudan as a Research Fellow for the Max Planck Institute for International Law and in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a Civilian Justice Expert for the European Union Police Mission. He holds an LLM from Columbia Law School, a Certificate of Transnational Law from the University of Geneva and degrees in law (Magister iuris) and history (BA) from Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland.

Shamiso Mbizvo is Associate International Cooperation Adviser in the Jurisdiction, Complementarity and Cooperation Division in the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court. She provides legal and policy advice on international cooperation issues arising in the context of the OTP’s engagement in Kenya. Mbizvo holds a JD from New York University School of Law, where she was a Filomen D’Agostino Scholar for Women’s and Children’s Rights. She received a Master of Science degree in forced migration (development studies) from Oxford University, where she was a Shell Centenary Scholar in 2003. She graduated magna cum laude in international relations from Harvard University in 2002.

Makau W. Mutua is SUNY Distinguished Professor and the Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Scholar at SUNY Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York. He is the former Dean at SUNY Buffalo Law School and the author of Human Rights Standards: Hegemony, Law, and Politics (2016); Kenya’s Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan (2008); Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions (2008); and Human Rights: A Political and Cultural Critique (2002).

Lee J. M. Seymour is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. He studied political science at Northwestern University, Sciences Po Paris, Dalhousie University and the University of British Columbia. His current research on factionalism, alignment and fragmentation in civil wars is supported by a VENI grant from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). His work has appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Perspectives on Politics and the European Journal of International Relations. His interests include the role of truth and deception in international diplomacy, the politics of international justice and civil wars.

Paul D. Schmitt is an Attorney with DLA Piper LLP (US). His practice focuses on appellate and international litigation, including foreign sovereign immunity, sovereign debt, anti-corruption issues and human rights. Dr Schmitt received his PhD in history from the University of Maryland and his JD from Georgetown University Law Center. His doctoral dissertation focused on France’s diplomatic relationship with its former colonies after World War II. Dr Schmitt previously served as a legal intern with the ICTY and has taught courses at the university level on human rights, war crimes and genocide, colonialism and European history.

Clare da Silva is a Canadian lawyer and legal consultant for the United Nations and others on addressing firearms trafficking and armed violence reduction. She was the legal advisor for Amnesty International (AI) on their Arms Control, Security Trade and Human Rights programme and represented the interests of AI in lobbying states during the drafting process of the Arms Trade Treaty. In the past she was a Research Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at Cambridge University and acted as defence counsel at the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Eric Stover is faculty director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. His most recent books include The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar (1998); My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity (2004; co-edited with Harvey Weinstein); The Guantanámo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices (2009, with Laurel E. Fletcher); and The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague (2005).

Eefje de Volder is a Junior Scholar in International Law and Cultural Anthropology. She holds a Master of Science in cultural anthropology from Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands, a Master of Law in international and European law from Tilburg University, the Netherlands, and a Research Master in Law from Tilburg University/University of Leuven, Belgium. Her research focuses on the regionalisation of collective security, with a particular focus on the collective security system of the African Union. Her research interests also include the interconnection between conflict, migration and human trafficking. De Volder is currently a PhD Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Tilburg and works simultaneously at the Coordination Centre on Human Trafficking.

Karin Willemse is Assistant Professor at the Erasmus School of History, Culture, and Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam. She holds a PhD in anthropology from Leiden University (2001), and was Chair of the Netherlands Association of Feminist Anthropologist (LOVA) and a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Islam Research Project (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Leiden University). She has worked with scholars from South Africa, Senegal and Sudan, focusing on issues of gender, religion, violence, urban youth and migration. As a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, she currently conducts research in Nubia, Sudan, in cooperation with the British Museum.

Thomas P. Wolf is currently a Research Consultant/Analyst at Ipsos Public Affairs, Kenya. Dr Wolf first came to Kenya as a US Peace Corps secondary school teacher in 1967. He holds an MA in African studies (Ohio University) and a DPhil in comparative politics (University of Sussex). Previously he taught at the University of Nairobi, and served as Democracy/Governance Advisor for USAID/Kenya. The subject matter of his published works includes the political history of the Kenyan Coast, Kenya’s constitution, East African terrorism, several Afrobarometer Working Papers, the immunity of retired President Moi and the accuracy and political impact of political opinion/voter-intention polls in Kenya.