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Oman – COI

Prof Dawn Chatty Email: dawn.chatty@qeh.ox.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)1 86 52 81 715 www.dawnchatty.com Professor Dawn Chatty is a social anthropologist whose ethnographic interests lie in the Middle East, particularly with refugee young people. Dawn is both an academic anthropologist and a practitioner, having carefully developed her career in universities in the United States, Lebanon, Syria …

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Philippines – COI

Dr Vina Lanzona  E-mail: vlanzona@hawaii.edu Born and raised in Manila, Philippines, Dr Lanzona is considered a “Martial Law Baby”, having grown up under Martial Law. As a student at the Ateneo de Manila University, she was part of the People Power Revolution. After college, she worked briefly for the Aquino government, then came to the United …

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Armenia – COI

Dr Ohannes Geukjian Email: og01@aub.edu.lb Dr Ohannes Geukjian is a Lebanese citizen of Armenian descent. He received his PhD in 2005 from the Department of Peace Studies in Bradford University UK and wrote his dissertation on the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict and Ethno-Territorial Conflict in the South Caucasus. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Political Studies and …

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Cambodia – COI

Karen Coates Email: karencoatesauthor@gmail.com Karen Coates is an author, journalist and media trainer with more than 20 years of reporting experience in Southeast Asia. She is co-editor/producer on the forthcoming film, ETERNAL HARVEST, which documents the lasting effects of the US bombing campaign in Laos. The film is a follow-up to the book Eternal Harvest: The Legacy …

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Brunei – COI

Click here to see the host countries of refugees originating from Brunei. In 2014, Brunei’s government adopted a penal code provision that allows for stoning to death as the punishment for being in a same sex relationship. Previously, Brunei had punished those involved in same sex relationships with prison sentences.  The new provision is part of …

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Uzbekistan – COI

Anyone struggling for an Uzbek interpreter should contact Nafisa O’Brien on +44 7974 257 859. Bill Bowring Email: b.bowring@bbk.ac.uk Prof Bowring has experience in Uzbekistan dating back to the 1990s when he first travelled to the country to undertake training of advocates in international human rights standards on behalf of the OSCE. In 2000, he devised …

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Kyrgyzstan – COI

Click here to see the host countries of refugees originating from Kyrgyzstan. Bill Bowring Email: b.bowring@bbk.ac.uk Prof Bowring has experience in Kyrgyzstan dating back to 1999 when he first travelled to the country to train advocates, prosecutors and judges. In 2000, he participated as an expert in a round table conference on ways to ensure compliance …

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Kazakhstan – COI

Click here to see the host countries of refugees originating from Kazakhstan. Bill Bowring Email: b.bowring@bbk.ac.uk Prof Bowring has experience in Kazakhstan dating back to 1996 when he first travelled to the country. He has taught human rights at a Summer University at KIMEP University on multiple occasions, allowing him to develop close contacts within human rights …

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Afghanistan – COI

Syed Mohammed Ali Email: ali@policy.hu Syed Mohammad Ali is an anthropologist with twenty years of experience working on international development, governance, human rights, and human security challenges within the South Asian context. Besides his academic writings, which include a book, several book chapters and academic articles, Dr Ali writes a weekly newspaper op-ed since 2004. …

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Republic of Korea – COI

Leonid Petrov leonid.petrov@anu.edu.au Leonid Petrov wrote his doctoral thesis “Socio-economic School and the Formation of North Korean Official Historiography” at the Australian National University in Canberra. Between 2003 and 2005, Dr Petrov conducted post-doctoral research at the Academy of Korean Studies in Seongnam and taught Korean History at the Intercultural Institute of California (San Francisco) …

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