Braema Mathi
Braema Mathi (Mathiaparanam) is currently the Global Fellow on the Keene State College-Auschwitz
Institute for Prevention and Reconciliation Programme on Genocide and Atrocity Crimes.
She is also a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at Penang Institute in Malaysia.
Braema has been directly involved in issues related to women, migrant workers, HIV,
social protection and human rights. She has: led a women’s group, AWARE, where the
key initiative was CEDAW; founded a migrant worker’s rights group called Transient
Workers Count Too, where the work was organizational development and evidence-based
research and advocacy; was the Vice-President of Action for Aids, focusing on access
to health for women; and also founded and led MARUAH (Singapore Working Group for
ASEAN Human Rights Mechanism) whereby played key role on human rights as a civil society
organization. She was also the Regional President (Southeast Asia and Pacific) of
the International Council of Social Welfare where the work was on social protection.
Braema has worked as a teacher, a journalist, a researcher, programme coordinator
on Gender Studies at a think-tank, a Research and Advocacy Director, Head of Corporate
Communications in Healthcare, a Programme Director at a regional organization and
now works as a consultant. Braema was a two-term Nominated Member of Parliament and
has been on Ministerial Committees on specific issues to be part of the process of
putting up recommendations to the Singapore Government.
Braema has received training on many of these issues including Responsibility to Protect,
Business and Human Rights, Migrant Workers’ Rights, Human Rights, Role of Parliamentarians
and human rights. She has published book chapters, articles and also written reports
to and for organisations that include think-tanks in Southeast Asia and to the United
Nations.
Braema Mathi was at the Institute from October 16 until October 20. She presented
on Thursday, October 19. Consult with our Calendar page for more details.
Dr. Vigny Sixte Nimuraba
Vigny Nimuraba
Dr. Vigny Sixte Nimuraba is Chair of the Burundian Independent National Commission
on Human Rights (CNIDH). He earned his Ph.D from George Mason University's School
for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, and has been a consultant to the United Nations
and the U.S. Congress. Dr. Nimuraba, born and raised in Burundi, has more than 10
years of experience working with different ethnic groups and community stakeholders
and has established local contacts with the University of Ngozi, the National University
of Burundi, and several civil society organizations as well as nongovernment organizations
like Burundi Peacebuilding and Nonviolence Network, the United Nations High Commission
for Refugees. He has been a lecturer at the University of Burundi, Bujumbura International
university and Universite Espoir d'Afrique. In the past he taught at George Mason
University (Virginia) and the Aushwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation (New
York).
Dr. Nirumaba was on campus the week of October 21-25. He presented "Burundi: Preventing
mass atrocities and genocide through mechanisms of social identity" on Thursday, October
24, 4:30 – 6:00 pm in Fine Arts Building, room 212. Follow our calendar to keep up-to-date with our events.
Rachel Brown
Rachel Brown
Rachel Brown is the Executive Director of Project Over Zero and former CEO of Sisi
ni Amani. She has extensively examined the effects of mobile phones and related technologies
on political violence. Rachel moved to Kenya in 2010 to research the causes of the
country’s frequently violent election process, revealing the extent to which cell
phones were changing how violence was organized and how misinformation was spread.
Local peacebuilders themselves were struggling to keep up, and needed their own tools
to counteract the intensity and scope of these waves of violence that were being facilitated
by technology. Sisi ni Amani was born as a result.
Rachel Brown was at the Institute from November 4 to 8. She gave her public presentation
on Thursday, November 7. Please consult our Calendar page for more details.
Andrew Boyle
Andrew Boyle
Andrew Boyle is an American attorney and currently Counsel in the Liberty and National Security Program of the Brennan Center for Justice
at NYU School of Law, where among other matters he focuses on emergency powers. Prior to joining the Brennan
Center, he served as a United Nations prosecutor for seven years at the Extraordinary
Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia--more commonly known as the Khmer Rouge Trials--where
he prosecuted senior Khmer Rouge leaders for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against
humanity. He also previously served as an attorney in the trial chambers of the UN
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and was a law clerk to a US federal appellate
judge. He has held fellowships with the Truman National Security Project, the National
Endowment for Democracy, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs,
and he is also co-chair of the American Society for International Law’s International
Criminal Law Interest Group. He graduated from UCLA School of Law and its Epstein
Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, where he was an articles editor for the
Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs.
Andrew Boyle was at Binghamton University for the week of February 10-14, 2020.
This program is made possible through the generous support of the Charles E. Scheidt
Family Foundation.
