List of contributors
Carl Bouchard is Associate Professor of History at Université de Montréal (Canada). His research focuses on the history of peace in the 20th century. He published Le citoyen et l'ordre mondial. Le rêve d'une paix durable au lendemain de la Grande Guerre (Pedone, 2008).
Julia Chaitin is a Senior Lecturer in the Social Work department at Sapir College, Israel. She is a social psychologist who has published widely on the long-term effects of trauma on victims and their descendants, focusing on the Holocaust and the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. She is a member of Other Voice – a grassroots organization that calls for a non-violent resolution to the Gaza–Israel conflict.
Bruno Charbonneau is Associate Professor of Political Science at Laurentian University, Canada. His research examines the international politics of African conflicts and peace interventionism. He wrote France and the New Imperialism (Ashgate 2008), co-edited Locating Global Order (UBC Press 2010), and published numerous other articles and book chapters.
Sotheara Chhim, MD, MSc is a psychiatrist and the managing director of the leading Cambodian non-governmental organization in the field of mental health – the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Cambodia. He has worked for more than 14 years in the field of clinical and community mental health in various national and international institutions. As a principal lecturer at the University of Health Sciences in Phnom Penh and PhD candidate at Monash University, Melbourne, his research and publications mainly focus on trauma and culture specific coping strategies.
Graham G. Dodds is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University, Canada. Most of his research concerns the politics of the United States, particularly American political development and the unilateral powers of the presidency. He has published numerous articles and book chapters.
Gabriela Fried Amilivia is Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University Los Angeles and an Associate Researcher for the National Research Agency (ANII) in Uruguay. Among other publications, she co-edited Las Luchas contra la Impunidad y por la Justicia de Transicion en el Uruguay (Trilce, forth.) and wrote “Collective memories of the Disappeared in Uruguay: Pedagogies of Horror” (2011) in Lessa & Druiolli, The Memory of State terrorism in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, (McMilllan, 2011).
Karina V. Korostelina is Associate Professor at the School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. Her research examines identity-based conflicts and their management, including the role of history and memory and civilian devastation. She wrote Social Identity and Conflict (Palgrave), co-authored Why they Die? (University of Michigan Press), co-edited Identity, Morality and Threat (Lexington), and published numerous other articles and book chapters.
Sandrine Lefranc is Research Fellow in Political Sociology at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique, University of Paris West), France. Her main research topics are transitional justice, peacebuilding and international circulation of ideas. She wrote Politiques du pardon (Presses Universitaires de France, transl. in Spanish, Catedra, Spain, and Norma, Colombia), co-edited Mobilisations de victimes (Presses Universitaires de Rennes), and published numerous other articles and book chapters.
Patricia A. Maulden is Assistant Professor of Conflict Resolution at the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. Her research explores youth involvement in conflict and peace, gendered and generational dynamics, and peacebuilding.
Geneviève Parent is Assistant Professor of Conflict Studies at St Paul University in Ottawa, Canada. She was trained in psychology and criminology with a specialization in victims of crime and war. Her recent publications include articles in Genocide Studies and Prevention and in International Peacekeeping and various book chapters. She is presently working on healing, recovery, and reconciliation in the Balkans.
Julian Poluda is a medical doctor and specialized freelance consultant from Berlin based in Cambodia since 2008. In his work, he primarily concentrates on the evaluation and design of projects and programs in the areas of mental health care, refugee/migrant health, gender-based violence and peacebuilding for international and local organizations. www.julian-poluda.com
Lorraine Ryan received her PhD from the University of Limerick, Ireland, and is currently a lecturer at the University of Birmingham. She has published numerous articles and book chapters centering on her principal research interests: collective and cultural memory in Spain, the sociology of memory, and contemporary Spanish literature.
Angel Ryono is a graduate of Saybrook University's Human Science program. Her research focuses on local capacities for reconciliation and peace in Cambodia. She co-authored two chapters in Peace Movements Worldwide (ABC-CLIO) and is a staff at the War Crimes Studies Center, University of California, Berkeley.
David Senesh is a practicing psychotherapist in Israel, a graduate of a Canadian university and an American internship currently conducting research on the application of restorative practices among First Nations in western Canada to narratives in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
Judith Strasser is a clinical psychologist and presently associated with the Transcultural Psychosocial Organization Cambodia. As a Senior Advisor of the “Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Gmb” she develops and supervises psychological interventions to address post-conflict related trauma and to support witnesses and Civil Parties of the Khmer Rouge Tribunal since 2008.