Elin Skaar is a Senior Researcher and head of the research cluster on Rights and Legal Institutions at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway. Her research interests include human rights, transitional justice, and judicial reform. Publications include Judicial Independence and Human Rights in Latin America: Violations, Politics, and Prosecution (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and After Violence: Transitional Justice, Peace, and Democracy (Routledge, 2015). She holds a PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Jemima García-Godos is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo. Her broad research interest is state-society relations in post-conflict societies. Her research on transitional justice focuses on reparations programmes and land restitution, particularly in Colombia and Peru. She is co-editor of Transitional Justice and Peacebuilding on the Ground: Victims and Ex-combatants (Routledge, 2013). She holds a Dr.polit. degree in human geography from the University of Oslo.
Cath Collins is Professor of transitional justice at Ulster University, Northern Ireland, and Director of the Transitional Justice Observatory, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile. She has worked on transitional justice in Latin America since 1996. Her publications include The Politics of Memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet (Lynne Rienner, 2013) and Post-transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010). She holds a PhD in politics from the University of London.
Lorena Balardini is Assistant Professor in Social Sciences research and a PhD candidate at Buenos Aires University. She was formerly research coordinator at the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) in Argentina. Her research focuses on measuring and monitoring human rights trials. She is co-author of ‘Mapping Perpetrator Prosecutions in Latin America’ (International Journal of Transitional Justice, 2012).
Elena Martínez Barahona is Professor of Political Science at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She specialises in Latin American comparative politics with a focus on the judiciary, transitional justice, and security issues. Publications include Seeking the Political Role of the Third Governmental Branch: A Comparative Approach to High Courts in Central America (VDM, 2009). She holds a PhD in Political Science from the European University Institute.
Martha Liliana Gutiérrez Salazar is Professor of Law and Human Rights at Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogotá. Her interests are in Latin American comparative politics, especially the judiciary, human rights, and transitional justice. She has published in América Latina Hoy and other journals. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Salamanca, Spain.
Boris Hau, a Lawyer, investigates memory and human rights policy at the Transitional Justice Observatory, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile. He worked as a researcher for two Chilean truth commissions (Valech I and Valech II) and contributed to Diego Portales University’s 2015 annual report on human rights in Chile. He teaches classes on human rights at Alberto Hurtado University.
Francesca Lessa is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Latin American Centre, University of Oxford. Her interests include transitional justice in the Southern Cone, Operation Condor, and impunity for contemporary human rights violations in Latin America. She is the author of Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay: Against Impunity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013). She holds a PhD from the London School of Economics.
Glenda Mezarobba advised on the preparation of the draft bill that established the National Truth Commission in Brazil and subsequently served as a United Nations Development Programme consultant to the Commission. She has authored Um acerto de contas com o futuro (Humanitas/FAPESP, 2006). She holds a PhD in political science from São Paulo University.
Félix Reátegui is a Sociologist at the Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has worked at the International Center for Transitional Justice in New York, advising truth-seeking initiatives in Côte d’Ivoire, Tunisia, Nepal, and Colombia. He edited Transitional Justice: Handbook for Latin America (Brazilian Amnesty Commission/ICTJ, 2011).
Luis Raúl Salvadó is a Researcher at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Guatemala and has coordinated the organisation’s curriculum on human rights. His interests focus on the rule of law in Guatemala. He holds a Master’s degree in sociology from the University of Costa Rica.
Nelson Camilo Sánchez León is Research Coordinator at Dejusticia (Center for the Study of Law, Justice, and Society) in Colombia and Associate Professor at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá. He holds a JD degree from that university and an LLM degree in international legal studies from Harvard Law School.
Catalina Vallejo, a Lawyer, is a PhD candidate and Lecturer in administrative and environmental law at the University of Los Andes School of Law in Bogotá. Her research focuses on structural violence, peace and legal theory, global administrative law, and environmental regimes. Publications include Plurality of Peaces in Legal Action (LIT Verlag, 2012).