Guide Authors

Political Researcher focusing on public policy studies and democratic transitions in the Arab world. Author of many expert articles concerning the political and social developments in Egypt.

Published posts: The Egyptian Experience

Historian and Graduate in Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of General San Martín (UNSAM). Professor of Introduction to the Human Rights and Constitutional Law in the Basic Common Cycle of the University of Buenos Aires. Professor of History of the Law in the University of Managerial and Social Sciences, Buenos Aires. Visiting Professor at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, México. Adviser to the Subsecretary of Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

Published posts: The Argentine Experience

Former Executive Director of the Office of the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic (BStU) (2001–2014).

Published posts: The German Experience

Historian and Programs Director and Co-founder of the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI), Tbilisi. Researcher of Soviet Studies and author of several research papers on Soviet history.

Published posts: The Georgian Experience

Research Fellow at the Historical Archives of Hungarian State Security (since 2011). His field of research covers the activities of Romanian-Hungarian Secret Service against churches in the second part of the 20th century and the history of Romanian Secret Services in the 20th century.

Published posts: The Romanian Experience

Member of the Section for Research on the Resistance Movement against the Communist Regime of the Ministry of Defence in the Czech Republic (since 2014). Head of the Section for Research on the Resistance Movement against the Communist Regime of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (2012–2013).

Published posts: The Czech Experience

Transitional Justice Researcher, Lawyer and Social Activist focusing on election monitoring and defense of voting rights in election commissions and courts in Russia. Co-creator of the “Churov list” (black list of election commissions’ members allegedly involved in election fraud in the course of State Duma elections of 2011).

Published posts: The Russian Experience

Senior Researcher at the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romanian Exile (IICCMER) (since 2010) and Associate Researcher at the Romanian Institute for Recent History (IRIR) (since 2012).

Published posts: The Romanian Experience

Senior Fellow at the Research Center for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Hungary). His main research fields are the communist nationality policy in Eastern Europe and the social impact of state security on the Soviet Bloc countries. He has been a Consultant Member of the Vladimir Tismăneanu-led Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (2006).

Published posts: The Romanian Experience

South African independent researcher specialising in the field of policing, public security, corruption, violence and crime in South and Southern Africa. From 1996 to 2011 worked at the South African Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR). He is a visiting research fellow at the School of Governance at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Published posts: The South African Experience

Historian and Graduate in Political Science at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of General San Martín (UNSAM). Professor of Introduction to the Human Rights and Constitutional Law in the Basic Common Cycle of the University of Buenos Aires. Professor of History of the Law in the University of Managerial and Social Sciences, Buenos Aires. Visiting Professor at the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, México. Adviser to the Subsecretary of Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

Published posts: The Argentine Experience

Lawyer, Professor and Policy Analyst specializing in governance and rule of law. Senior Adviser at the Undersecretariat of Political Reform of the Buenos Aires City Government. Visiting Professor of constitutional law at the Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina. Lecturer in international affairs and coordinator of the Parliamentary Diplomacy program at the Austral University, Argentina.

Published posts: The Argentine Experience

Professor of Transitional Justice at Ulster University’s Transitional Justice Institute since March 2013. Previously, Associate Professor of Politics at the Universidad Diego Portales, Chile, where she founded and still directs the Transitional Justice Observatory. Currently, she is involved in research and exchange between Northern Ireland and Latin America about the search for victims of disappearance. She teaches and supervises in Northern Ireland and Chile on Latin American politics, international criminal justice, human rights, and transitional justice.

Published posts: The Chilean Experience

Main Specialist in the Digital Resources’ Branch of the Archive of the Institute of National Remembrance in Warsaw (since 2006). Lecturer at the Academy of Warfare in Warsaw.

Published posts: The Polish Experience

Professor of History at the University of Chile.

Published posts: The Chilean Experience

Associate Law Lecturer at San Pablo – CEU University (Madrid, Spain), an Associate Researcher at the Institute CEU of Historical Studies and a practicing lawyer. His specialization is Criminal and International Law. Among others, his work is focused on Nazism and communism, antisemitism and Holocaust denial, hate crime and hate speech. As well, he teaches law on hate crime, hate speech and discrimination at the Madrid Bar Association for the lawyers serving at the legal aid for victims of hate crime.

Published posts: The Spanish Experience

Visiting researcher in the University of Notre Dame and the University of Geneva. His research focuses on European History, International Relations and Spanish Intellectual History. Currently he is finishing his PhD at the University of Navarra.

Published posts: The Spanish Experience

Adjunct Professor of Political Science for the Bachelor’s Degree in Public Policy at the Fluminense Federal University IEAR-UFF. He is vice coordinator of the “lato sensu” post-graduate course, Management of Territories and Knowledge TERESA/UFF, coordinator of the Centre for Studies on State, Institutions and Public Policy (NEEIPP) at UFF, and coordinator of the research group, Judicial Power in Latin America of the Latin American Association of Political Science (ALACIP). He is a collaborating member of the Commission on Human Rights and Legal Assistance of the Brazilian Bar Association – CDHAJ/OAB-RJ.

Published posts: The Brazilian Experience

Research fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Navarra, as well as an Associate Professor lecturing Modern World History in the degree program of International Relations and Law. Visiting scholar in Malta and Germany (Universität Hamburg). Before becoming a fulltime scholar, she combined her academic research with professional activity in international corporations.

Professor of Political Science, Public Policies and Security Issues at the University of National Defense, Buenos Aires and at the University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires.

Published posts: The Argentine Experience

Psychoanalyst, associate professor and researcher at the University of São Paulo (USP). Researcher supported by the São Paulo State Research Support Foundation (FAPESP). Coordinator of the Research Group on Human Rights, Democracy and Memory at the USP Institute for Advanced Studies. Member of the Memory Studies Association (MSA) and member of the Memory Studies Association Latin America (MSA/LA). Researcher at the Research Unit on Dreams, Memories and Imagination Studies (Poland/Gdansk) and advisor to the Clinical Territories of Memory (Argentina).

Published posts: The Brazilian Experience

Cooperates with the research group Grupo de Investigación en Historia Reciente (GIHRE) from the University of Navarra. His research focuses on the study of francoism. Currently he is writing his PhD. thesis at the University of Navarra.

Published posts: The Spanish Experience

Lawyer, Head of the Department of the Use of Stasi-Documents at the Federal Commissioner for the Records of the State Security Service of the former German Democratic Republic (BStU) (since 2003).

Published posts: The German Experience