Faculty of International Experts
We are presently in the process of finalizing our faculty roster for Summer Institute 2010. Check back here for updates late in the fall. Meanwhile, we are pleased to announce a partial list of expert faculty we tentatively expect to participate in this year's Summer Institute.
Professor Kwa Chong Guan
Profesor Kwa is Head of External Programs, S Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University and Co-Chair of Singapore’s National Committee of the Council for Security Co-operation in the Asia Pacific. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Department of History, National University of Singapore. Prof. Kwa was educated at the old University of Singapore and the University of Kent in Canterbury. He has authored papers on the heuristics of Asian security practice, Singapore historiography and the Southeast Asian art history.
Mr. Marzuki Darusman
Born in Bogor in 1945, Mr. Darusman graduated from Parahyangan Catholic University in Bandung in 1974, majoring in international law of the sea. He was a member of the Executive Committee and former Vice-Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), Geneva and for a long time has been a strong advocate of human rights and democratization in Indonesia championing these causes while with GOLKAR where he has been a Member of Parliament since the 1980s. He has developed an international reputation for being an outspoken critic of the government’s human rights record. He has served as Chairperson of the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), and as Indonesia’s Attorney General. In 2009, The United Nations chose Mr. Darusman as one of the UN team to investigate the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto
Ms. Sidney Jones
Sidney Jones is the Senior Adviser for the International Crisis Group's Asia Program in Jakarta, Indonesia. Sidney and the Crisis Group’s South East Asian analysts based in Jakarta prepare analytical reports on the sources of conflict and violence in the region, with a particular focus on Indonesia. She has examined separatist conflicts (Aceh and Papua, Mindanao); communal conflicts (Poso, Moluccas); and ethnic conflict (Kalimantan). Her team has also looked at Islamic radicalism, producing a series of reports on Jemaah Islamiyah and its operations in Indonesia and the Philippines. It also looks at issues of security sector reform and decentralization in Indonesia. Sidney frequently briefs the media, international organizations, and government representatives on these issues.
Mr. Morten Bergsmo
Morten Bergsmo is Senior Researcher, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) and Coordinator of the ICC Legal Tools Project. He was formerly Special Adviser to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecution of Norway, Senior Legal Adviser and Chief of the Legal Advisory Section, ICC Office of the Prosecutor, Coordinator of the establishment of the ICC Office of the Prosecutor, and before that, Legal Adviser, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Since Mr. Bergsmo has worked closely with national capacity building, knowledge-transfer and legal empowerment in the area of core international crimes in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cambodia, Canada, Denmark, Indonesia, Iraq, Macedonia, the Netherlands, Norway and Serbia. He has published extensively in international criminal law and has had several international consultancies in international criminal justice. He is the convenor of the Forum for International Criminal and Humanitarian Law and the Case Matrix Network.
Professor David Cohen
Professor Cohen is Professor of Rhetoric and Classics at UC Berkeley, and the former Professor of Law and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. He has monitored and reported extensively on the East Timor trials before the Special Panels for Serious Crimes in Dili and the Ad Hoc Human Rights Court in Jakarta. He currently directs trial monitoring projects at the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia as well as an international project on the World War II war crimes trials in Asia, the Pacific, and Europe. He is also writing a book on a comparative study of international criminal hybrid tribunals in East Timor, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and Kosovo and on war crimes from World War II to today.
To inquire about the program, please contact Penelope Van Tuyl at summerinstitute@eastwestcenter.org.
More information and paperwork necessary to apply to SI 2010 can be found here (brochure and application form).
