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Professor Aldo Civico is the director of the Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR) at Columbia University's Schools of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). An anthropologist, he has been doing fieldwork in Colombia since 2001 focusing on internally displaced people and the paramilitary. Since 2003, he has been facilitating the peace efforts with the ELN guerrilla. Previously, he worked as a senior political adviser to Mr. Leoluca Orlando, mayor of Palermo (Italy) and leader of the anti-mafia movement La Rete. In the 1990s, as a free-lance journalist he worked for Italian and German media. He joined CICR in 2000.
Further Resources:
Aldo Civico’s Website
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Professor Alex Hinton is Executive Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights and Associate Professor of Anthropology and Global Affairs and at Rutgers University, Newark.
He is the author of the award-winning Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (California, 2005) and six edited or co-edited collections, Transitional Justice: Global Mechanisms and Local Realities after Genocide and Mass Violence (Rutgers, forthcoming in 2010), Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation (Duke, 2009), Night of the Khmer Rouge: Genocide and Democracy in Cambodia (Paul Robeson Gallery, 2007), Annihilating Difference: The Anthropology of Genocide (California, 2002), Genocide: An Anthropological Reader (Blackwell, 2002), and Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions (Cambridge, 1999). He is currently working on several other book projects, including a co-edited volume on the legacies of genocide and mass violence, a book on 9/11 and Abu Ghraib, and a book on the politics of memory and justice in the aftermath of the Cambodian genocide. He serves as an Academic Advisor to the Documentation Center of Cambodia, on the International Advisory Boards of the Journal of Genocide Research and Genocide Studies and Prevention, as co-editor of the CGHR-Rutgers University Press book series, "Genocide, Political Violence, Human Rights," and as the First Vice-President and Executive Board member of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.
In 2009, Alex Hinton received the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology "for his groundbreaking 2005 ethnography Why Did They Kill? Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide, for path-breaking work in the anthropology of genocide, and for developing a distinctively anthropological approach to genocide."
Further Resources:
Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights
Books by Alex Hinton

Professor Victoria Sanford received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University (2000) where she also received training in International Human Rights Law and Immigration Law at Stanford Law School. Additionally, she received a certificate in Human Rights Law from the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights in Costa Rica. She has worked with Central American refugees since 1986 when she founded and directed a non-profit refugee legal services project representing Central American asylum-seekers. As a human rights activist and scholar, she has conducted extensive field research with Maya communities in Guatemala, Afro-Colombian and indigenous peace communities in Colombia, and Colombian refugee communities in Ecuador.
She is the author of Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala (Palgrave Macmillan 2003), Violencia y Genocidio en Guatemala (FyG Editores 2003), Guatemala: Del Genocidio al Feminicidio (FyG Editores 2008), and co-author of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation's report to the Commission for Historical Clarification (the Guatemalan truth commission). She has just completed La Masacre de Panzós: Etnicidad, tierra y violencia en Guatemala (FyG Editores, in press). She co-edited (with Asale Angel-Ajani) Engaged Observer: Anthropology, Advocacy and Activism, (Rutgers University Press 2006).

Further Resources:

Victoria Sanford Website

Professor Brian Ferguson is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Rutgers University at Newark. He is an anthropological generalist on the subject of war, with publications on tribal warfare, ethnic conflict, the archaeology of violence, and war in ancient states. He is a critic of theories purporting to explain war as a result of evolved propensities to kill.
Further Resources:
Brian Ferguson’s Faculty Website