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Vijaya (Jaya) Tripathi - As Human Rights Program Associate to the Benetech® Human Rights Program, Ms. Tripathi leads Martus outreach and training for human rights groups. She helps support development and use of the Martus software by testing, managing translations, and providing outreach and technical support to users. She also contributes to HRDAG analytic projects through qualitative research, review and assessment of inter-rater reliability (IRR) calculations, and other data processing and evaluation work.
Her recent work has included conducting Martus trainings for Congolese human rights groups in Kinshasa and Goma, a field visit to present data assessment findings to the Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma, a Martus project partner, and analyzing inter-rater reliability among data coders at the Guatemalan Human Rights Ombudsmans' National Police Archive project. In addition, Ms. Tripathi recently held Martus workshops for NGOs from Lebanon, Iraq and Afghanistan, among other countries.
Megan Price is a Statistician with the Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG). She recently earned her Ph.D. in Biostatistics and a Certificate in Human Rights from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University. Dr. Price also has a M.S. and B.S. in Statistics from Case Western Reserve University. Prior to joining HRDAG, Dr. Price co-authored A First Attempt at a Health and Human Rights Report Card, published in Health and Human Rights.
Agnethe Olesen, Daniel D'Esposito and Bert Verstappen work on the OpenEvSys database developed by HURIDOCS:
Daniel D'Esposito currently works as capacity building officer at HURIDOCS, which includes helping frontline human rights organisations collect, record, safeguard and analyse data on human rights violations using databases such as OpenEvsys. Before that, he worked for ten years with the ICRC, both in the field and at headquarters, in the field of humanitarian protection (visits to detainees to prevent torture and disappearances and improve conditions of detention, and monitoring respect for IHL by warring parties).
Daniel holds a BA in political science from the University of Lausanne and an MSc in NGO Management from the London School of Economics. He lives near Geneva, in Coppet. He is also the founder and editor of Human Rights Tools, a leading provider of career information for human rights professionals (jobs and educational opportunities).
Bert Verstappen, Programme
Coordinator at the Human
Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International (HURIDOCS), a
global capacity-building network of organisations that use documentation techniques,
monitoring methods, information management systems and available technologies
in the defence of human rights and the prevention of abuses. Among the many
helpful resources and manuals Bert has written is the excellent, What is documentation, available
at HURIDOCS website. For
more information on HURIDOCS see: http://www.huridocs.org/
Nathan Freitas has been writing code since he was eight and hasn’t
stopped looking for problems to solve ever since. A lifelong mobile
technology enthusiast, his work has included open-source software for
DARPA-funded research projects, patents for popular consumer
technology, award-winning digital art and groundbreaking technology for
non-violent protest. He has applied his skills to a wide range of
organizations, causes and efforts, including Students for a Free Tibet,
the Ruckus Society, MobileActive, the Tor Project and the award-winning
election monitoring system Vote Report. He has built and managed text
messaging systems for mass mobilizations and grassroots campaigns,
designed portable satellite-based video systems to broadcast protests
from remote and perilous regions, and implemented secure communication
systems to support activists and independent journalists around the
world. In 2009, he won first prize at the UC Berkeley Human Rights
Center Mobile Challenge. You can follow his blog at
http://openideals.com
Patrick J. Pierce has worked with Burmese human rights groups in Thailand since 1998 and is currently the head of the International Center for Transitional Justice’s Burma Program. He has initiated and managed projects on documentation of human rights violations, transitional justice trainings, and research among people affected by human rights violations in Burma. Working in a pre-transition setting, he explores the efficacy of applying a transitional justice framework to an ongoing conflict. He also worked in the Solomon Islands in 2009 setting up ICTJ’s program there and assisting with the set-up of the Solomon Islands Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He holds a master's of arts degree in applied anthropology from American University (1997).
Oleg Burlaca works closely with OpenEvSys and the 'Who did what to whom' methodology of documenting human rights violations. He has developed a prototype for a system similar to existing HURIDOCS software for documenting human rights violations. Screencasts, a live demo and a paper can be found at http://openevsys.burlaca.com/. In September 2009 he started the development of a new website for OMCT: World Organisation Against Torture. The target is to create a flexible mechanism for navigating their library. In November 2009 Oleg commenced the redesigning of another website for The SOVA Center for Information and Analysis. Oleg co-founded NeoNet Group LTD in 2000, a web development company and serves as the information architect and lead programmer of the company. I've developed the NeoSite CMS (Content Management System) that was used to build and maintain all our websites. Oleg has a PhD in Computer Science, specialty: Mathematical modelling, mathematical methods, software. The summary and fulltext of his PhD thesis “A Web Content Management System” (in romanian) can be found at http://www.cnaa.md/en/thesis/4735/. The list of Oleg's publications: http://www.math.md/people/burlaca-oleg/.
Jana Asher, M.S., is the Executive Director of StatAid, a nonprofit consultation and research organization that focuses on assisting human rights and humanitarian organizations. Asher is also a statistician who specializes in the collection and analysis of human rights violations data. She has worked on projects for the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Physicians for Human Rights, Human Rights Watch, the East Timor Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the American Bar Association, the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the U.S. Census Bureau. In 2009, the American
Statistical Association selected her as a Fellow for her contributions to the profession, and for excellence in the application of statistical methodology to human rights and humanitarian measurement problems. Jana is currently completing her Ph.D. in Statistics with an Emphasis on Human
Rights under the direction of Professor Stephen E. Fienberg at Carnegie Mellon University.
Daniel Rothenberg is the Managing Director of International Projects at the International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) at DePaul University College of Law where he designs, funds and manages rule of law and human rights projects. Over the past five years, he has developed projects with combined budgets of over $14 million involving as many as 60 field-based staff in Afghanistan, Iraq and various countries in Latin America. These projects focus on: large scale human rights data collection and analysis; rule of law training for NGOs; legal education reform; indigenous rights; gender justice; litigation using the Inter-American Human Rights system, and; policy research. Before coming to DePaul, he was a Senior Fellow at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and a Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. His research and writing focuses on transitional justice issues, particularly truth commissions, amnesty laws, tribunals and reparations, as well as labor migration, moral panics, genocide and social responses to institutionalized violence. He is the author of With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today (Harcourt Brace) and the forthcoming Memory of Silence (Palgrave).
