Staff profiles
Kingston University
Stephen Bowen is Senior Lecturer in Human Rights and was formerly national campaigns director at Amnesty International UK. He is currently director of external affairs at Scope.
Professor Brian Brivati is Visiting Professor at Kingston. His specialist subjects include the history of human rights, especially genocide in the 20th Century; contemporary history; and political biography. In 2007 he was invited to join the Iraq Commission. He has recently been appointed Director of the John Smith Memorial Trust.
Dr Paul Dixon is Reader in Politics and International Studies. His research interests are in the politics of conflict, conflict resolution theory and the role of politics in managing both violent and non-violent conflict.
Professor Ilaria Favretto is Professor of Contemporary European History. Her research interests include the British and the Italian Left after 1945; the historical and cultural processes influencing national identity formation/the creation of a European identity; and protest and dissent in 20th century Europe.
Dr Marko Attila Hoare is Reader in European Studies. His specialist subjects include Bosnia, mass murder and genocide.
Dr Edward Mogire is Research Fellow in International Studies. His research interests include Sub-Saharan Africa, refugee issues and small arms proliferation.
Spyros Sofos is Senior Research Fellow in European Studies. His specialist subjects include the Balkans, Turkey, Greece, nationalism, migration and diasporas, Islam and Europe.
Professor Philip Spencer is Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and Director of the Helen Bamber Centre for the Study of Rights, Conflict and Mass Violence. His specialist subjects include the Holocaust, comparative genocide and nationalism.
University of Siena
Prof Marcello Flores is a Professor of Contemporary and Comparative History. He has published extensively on human rights and genocide and, as recognition of his expertise, he was invited to join the scientific committee and editorial board of a History of Shoah (4 volumes) published by Utet (Torino) in 2007. In 2002 Prof. Flores created and since then directed the Siena Master in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action (now merged into the European Joint Master of Human Rights and Genocide studies). He was Cultural Attaché at the Italian Embassy in Warsaw, 1992-1944. He is currently the Cultural Councillor of the Siena Municipality.
Prof Giovanni Gozzini is a Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Siena. His specialist subjects include the Holocaust and genocide in the 20th century. He is the Vice-Director of the Siena Master in Human Rights and Humanitarian Action (running from 2002 to 2006). He is member of the Editorial Board of the journal Passato e presente. Rivista di storia contemporanea, and the Director of the Gabinetto Vieusseux in Florence (ancient reading room for foreign travellers in Florence, founded in 1819). He is currently the Cultural Councillor of the Florence Municipality.
Dr Marco Mayer teaches 'Theory and Practice of Preventive Diplomacy', ‘Negotiation and Mediation Techniques’ and ‘Peace Operations Analysis and Planning’ at the University of Florence, Political Science Faculty “Cesare Alfieri”. His main research interests include humanitarian intervention and peacekeeping. Since 2002 he has been deputy co-ordinator of the Master in Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention at the University of Siena; and Senior Councillor for the Master in Human Rights and Conflict Management at the Scuola Superiore Sant’ Anna in Pisa. Marco Mayer was in 2002-2003 an External Relations Officer at the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) Regional HQ Mitrovica, Kosovo. He is currently Chief of Staff to the Regional Minister for International Cooperation, Regional Government of Tuscany.
Dr Antonio Donini is a Senior Research Fellow at the Feinstein International Center, Tufts University. His research interests focus on humanitarian intervention and diplomacy. From 2002 to 2004 he was Visiting Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University. From 1999 to 2002 he worked as Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan (UNOCHA)/Deputy UN Coordinator. In the preceding years he held the position of Senior Officer at the Executive Office of the Secretary General, UN, New York; and of Senior Research Officer at the Joint Inspection Unit, Office for the Coordination of UN Humanitarian Assistance to Afghanistan (UNOCA) in Kabul.
Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder)
Prof Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg is Professor of Public Law, in particular Public International Law, European Law and Foreign Constitutional Law at the Faculty of Law, Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder) and Dean of the Faculty. His research specialisations include international humanitarian law, the international law of armed conflict and international environmental law.
Tobias Gries LLM is a lawyer in practice with K&L Gates, Berlin. His research specialisations include the right to peace in public international law.
Prof Gerard C Rowe is Professor of Professor of Public, Administrative, Environmental and Local Government Law, Comparative Law and Economic Analysis of Law at the Faculty of Law, Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder). His research specialisation include anti-discrimination law, European human rights law, environmental law and European administrative law.
Dr Steve Paulsson is an Associate of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto and was formerly Lecturer at Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford and Lecturer in Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at the University of Leicester (UK). His research specialisations include comparative and historical work on genocide and other forms of mass violence.
Dr Carmen Thiele is Assistant Professor (Privatdozent) in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder). Her research specialisations include international human rights protection and comparative law, with special emphasis on Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Dr Ulla Gläßer is a lawyer in practice and academic co-director of the Master’s Program on Mediation, Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder) and co-director of the Frankfurt Institute for Conflict Management . Her research specialisations include the role of alternative dispute resolution in the prevention and termination of social and group-based conflict.
Prof Arndt Sinn is Professor of Criminal Law at the University of Osnabrück (Germany) and formerly Professor of German and European Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law and International Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law, Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder). His research specialisations include the work of the International Criminal Court.
Dr Lars Kirchhoff is a practicing mediator and international lawyer and the academic co-director of the Master Program on Mediation and the Institute for Conflict Management, Viadrina European University Frankfurt (Oder). In addition, he is partner of the Berlin-based law firm Kanzlei für Mediation Gläßer Kirchhoff.
Prof Ryszard Piotrowicz has been Professor of Law at the University of Aberystwyth since 1999. He was previously Professor and Dean of Law at the University of Tasmania, and has also taught at the Universities of Glasgow and Durham. His research specialisations include international protection of refugees and internally displaced persons and legal and institutional measures for the prevention of trafficking in persons.
Collegium Civitas
Mariusz Handzlik, Counsellor Minister is a Diplomat and expert in the field of security and Polish and American foreign policy. He is currently Head of the Office of International Affairs at the President of Poland Chancellory. He was first-secretary and political and military counsellor in the Polish Embassy in Washington D.C., closely co-operating with the Pentagon; Ambassador-at-large of Poland, and president of the MTCR (Missile Technology Control Regime) in Paris; counsellor Minister in the Mission of the Republic of Poland to the United Nations. He was awarded the distinguished Public Service Medal from the US Department of Defence.
Maciej Kozlowski, Ambassador is an Historian and former Polish Ambassador to Israel. He cooperated with Jerzy Giedroyc's Kultura ("Culture"); studied at Sorbonne; editor-in-chief-of Wiadomosci Krakowskie, editor of Tygodnik Powszechny; Fulbright scholarship holder in Northwestern University and Stanford University; employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs first as director of American Department and later as deputy minister. He is currently deputy director of the Department for Africa and the Middle East and Foreign Minister's Plenipotentiary for Polish-Jewish relations; and has been long-time member of the Euro-Atlantic Alliance Board. He co-authored the short history of Poland: Poland - The Story published in English and Hebrew.
Dr Serge Pukas (Political scientist) is supervisor of programs in English at Collegium Civitas. Holder of 5 postgraduate degrees including a MA and a PhD from Central European University (CEU) in Budapest (Hungary). He also taught at Central European University and was a consultant in the Transitional Justice: Memories, Responsiblities, and Ways to Reconcilation project.
Dr Natalia Letki (Political scientist) received her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. In 2005 Dr. Letki won the Western Political Science Association/Political Research Quarterly Award for the Best Article Published in 2004. In 2007 she received a research grant from the most prestigious Polish foundation: The Foundation for Polish Science. Her research focuses on the relationship between social capital and the institutional (political and economic) context in the new and established democracies. She is also interested in political behavior and attitudes of citizens and political elites.
Prof Henryk Domannski (Sociologist) is director of the Philosophy and Sociology Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences and head of the Department of Social Structure Studies. He is author of numerous articles and books in the field of social stratification and mobility as well as on the methodology in social sciences. His recent publications include: On Social Mobility in Poland (Warsaw 2004), Poverty in Post-Communist Societies (Warsaw 2002), and Hierarchies and Social Barriers in the 90s: the Case of Poland (Warsaw 2000).
Marek Antoni Nowicki, Ombudsman is a Solicitor and former President of the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights; former member of the Council of the Human Rights Institute of the International Bar Association; since 1999 he has been a member of the Advisory Committee of the International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights; he is also a long-term Chairman of the Commission of Human Rights at the Polish Bar Council. From July 2000 until the end of 2005 he was International Ombudsman on behalf of the UN in Kosovo; until January 2008, he held the position as President of the Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights in Warsaw; in January 2007, by nomination of the President of the European Court of Human Rights, he was appointed member of a three-person UN Advisory Commission on Human Rights in Kosovo; since January 2008, he has been Chairman of that body.
Dr Ryszard Zóltaniecki is Sociologist and diplomat, is deputy director of the Institute of Diplomacy at Collegium Civitas and responsible for the study program in Diplomacy. He is former Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Greece and Cyprus; and former director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. He acted as director in different departments in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He specializes in the field of international negotiations. He has published two volumes of poetry, including a collection entitled Exiled.
Uppsala University
Paul Levine, who is the Swedish coordinator for the European Joint Master in Human Rights and Genocide Studies, is the Director of the Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and a leading expert in the history of the Holocaust and genocide studies.