Staff profiles
Collegium Civitas Warsaw
David Koschel is a trainer and practitioner in international public affairs. As Acting Head of Office of the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), previously as Training Fellow, has been in charge of diplomatic training courses at United Nations Headquarters in the area of negotiation skills, multilateral diplomacy, UN system, and various seminars on policy issues under current negotiations at the United Nations. He has designed and facilitated workshops for hundreds of diplomats on a variety of issues, including effective negotiating in multilateral conferences; climate change diplomacy; negotiating international peace and security; and elections within the UN system. Prior to joining UNITAR, he was Programme Coordinator at Transparency International, the international anti-corruption watchdog with Secretariat in Berlin/Germany, where he was responsible for capacity-building and advocacy programmes in the Middle East and Africa. Other work experiences include the German Parliament and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Germany. David Koschel holds an MA in International Relations (Berlin, 2005) and an M.Phil in International Peace Studies (Dublin, 2003). He has also held scholarships from the German National Academic Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service. Within the Human Rights and Genocide Studies MA Program he co-teaches the module entitled International Negotiations and Responsibility to Protect.
Dr Maciej Kozlowski (Ambassador) is an historian and IR specialist, Deputy Director at the Department of Africa and Middle East, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland. He earned his PhD at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow in 1988. In 1990-1993 Minister-Counselor, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Poland in Washington. The next two years Charge d'Affairs in the Embassy of Poland in Washington. In 1994 to 1999 Director of the American Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1999-2003 Ambassador of Poland to Israel. Recipient of many awards and grants. Author of many publications in Polish and international journals. He taught at several universities in Poland and was a visiting professor at Stanford University, University of Iowa, Harvard University, and University of Wisconsin. Guest speaker at many universities in the US, Europe and Israel. Within the Human Rights and Genocide Studies MA Program he teaches the modules entitled Holocaust and Genocide and Holocaust Memory and Impact.
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. Within the Human Rights and Genocide Studies MA Program he co-teaches the module entitled Legal Problems of Human Rights.
Dr Dominik Smyrgala is an IR scholar; graduate of the Institute of International Relations of the University of Warsaw in 2002 and the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2003). Professional career in many government bodies, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland. Doctoral degree from the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2009). Author of analytical, academic and popular publications on international organizations, energy security, the Balkans and history of intelligence. Within the Human Rights and Genocide Studies MA Program he co-teaches the module entitled Human Rights Organizations.
Jan Szczodrowski (LL.M.) is an expert in the field of EU law and EU institutions; graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Faculty of Law and Administration (Poland) and the College of Europe in Bruges (Belgium), European Legal Studies Department. He also studied French and European Law at Université Rennes, Faculté de droit et de science politique (France). He has published several scientific articles on EU competition law and the Internal Market law in various legal journals. He holds a position as a Teaching Assistant (Law) at the College of Europe, Natolin campus. He worked in a law firm and at the Office of the Committee for European Integration, advising to the Secretary of State inter alia in the field of legal aspects of EU external relations, EU climate change and the Internal Market law. Within the Human Rights and Genocide Studies MA Program he co-teaches the module entitled Human Rights Organizations.
Prof Anastassia Tsoukala is a legal scholar; Research Fellow at the University of Paris V-Sorbonne and Research Associate at the Institute of International Relations, Panteion University (Athens), and at the Centre for Study of Conflicts (Paris). She received her PhD in Penal Law and Criminal Sciences from the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne. She is Associate Editor of the political sciences quarterly Cultures & Conflits and Co-editor of the multilingual book series Cultures & Conflits, published by L'Harmattan, Paris. She has been a visiting professor at such universities as the University of Marmara, 2007/08 (Turkey) and Université Libre de Bruxelles, 2008/09 (Belgium). Her main fields of research include internal security policies, human rights in Europe, and the social construction of threat. Within the Human Rights and Genocide Studies MA Program he co-teaches the module entitled Legal Problems of Human Rights.
Dr Ryszard Zóltaniecki (Ambassador) is a sociologist and diplomat; director of the School of Foreign Service and Diplomacy Collegium Civitas, deputy director of the Institute of Diplomacy at Collegium Civitas; former president of the Foundation of Culture; former Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Greece and Cyprus (1991-1996); and former director of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. In 1980-1981 he was a visiting scholar at the University of Florida in Gainesville. In 1990 he became director of the Department of Cultural and Research Policy in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has also acted as deputy director of the Department of Promotion and Information in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and as director of the Department of Cultural and Research Policy. He has published two volumes of poetry, including a collection entitled, Exiled (Warsaw 1988). Within the Human Rights and Genocide Studies MA Program he teaches the module entitled Techniques of Negotiations.
Europa-Universität Viadrina 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.
Kingston University London
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.
Università degli Studi di 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.