Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative

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The Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative (PCRes) is a research initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley.

PCRes undertakes critical and formative research in response to urgent questions of social transformation. Interdisciplinary in practice and rooted in local knowledge, PCRes contends with quotidian and systemic conditions of oppression at the contested intersections of political conflict, gendered and attendant sexualized violences, and people’s rights. PCRes seeks to work in solidarity with those who live with and intervene on institutionalized and collective social suffering, and with decolonial responses and movements. PCRes inquires into the capillaries and relations of power--temporal and spatial--that are prohibitive and productive, constituting, securitizing, and circumscribing forms of knowledge-power, subjectivity, and governance. Its programs bear witness to how those affected/those “Othered” live with social suffering, assimilation, elimination, and dispossession, and death-bound conditions, and ameliorate their effects.

About PCRes

ENABLING CRITICAL THOUGHT AND INQUIRY

The Armed Conflict Resolution and People’s Rights Project, instituted in April 2012 at the Center for Social Sector Leadership, Haas School of Business, was precursor to the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Research Initiative. After completion of its first and successful phase, the project movedto the Center for Race and Gender (CRG) in January 2016, to further enabl interdisciplinary commitments in the next phase of its work. A pioneering, interdisciplinary research center, CRG houses research initiatives and working groups concerned with race and gender (as well as coloniality and other relations of power), allowing them to develop freely and flourish.

PCRes investigates structures of dominance and their (trans)national apparatus, using violence as a category of analysis. It works to enable methods and mechanisms for social justice and accountability, and psychosocial healing. PCRes undertakes the work of archiving and memorialization drawing on diverse imaginaries and situated and comparative contexts. PCRes focuses on issues of majoritarianism and minoritism (in particular, casteism and Islamomisia), “homeland” and unbelonging, and cultural nationalism as they interact with nation-making, states of siege and emergency, militarism and exception, political conflict and transformation, and the racialization of difference. The Initiative works with collaborative networks of victimized-survivor-subjects, scholars, and academic and civil society leaders and institutions. PCRes focuses on the centrality of political and foundational violence in the contested regions and nation-states of the post/colony, with particular emphasis on cultures, areas, and regions of South Asia.

Conflict-based and upheaval-ridden political economies witness the dramatic amplification of social inequities under neoliberal, majoritarian states. State and deep state violences in conflict and upheaval are disbursed through “extrajudicial” means and those authorized by law and politics. Targeted communities and decolonial movements, too, use violence as response. Death and social death are memorialized via language and iconography.

How are archaeologies of violence illustrative of the gendered, racialized and religionized dynamics of minoritization? How are the conditions and events of violence gendered, heteronormative, and sexualized? How do assemblages of racialization and gendering constitute death-bound subjects? How is violence used to sustain and re-work the minoritization of an Other? What critical practices of mourning, counter-memory, and the sacred emerge in response to a politics of violence that agentizes multiple relations to justice, struggle, difference, and accountability?

Students: PCRes provides internship opportunities for exceptional graduate students and select undergraduate students from UC Berkeley and other institutions, and from local communities. The Research Initiative engages age-appropriate youth from affected communities in the work of documenting remembrance, and creating an archive and curated presentations.

People of PCRes

Angana P. Chatterji

Chair, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Research Initiative
Research Anthropologist, UC Berkeley

Angana P. Chatterji is Research Anthropologist and Chair of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender, University of California, Berkeley (and Founding Co-chair of the precursor, Armed Conflict Resolution and People’s Rights Project at the Center for Social Sector Leadership, Haas School of Business, 2012-2015). Chatterji leads the creation of the Archive on Legacies of Conflict in South Asia. Since April 2017, she has been a Research Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford University. She is also a Global Fellow at the Center for Law and Transformation, Chr. Michelsen Institute and the University of Bergen, and a Distinguished Fellowat theRafto Foundation for Human Rights, in Bergen, Norway. Dr. Chatterji’s scholarship is witness to conditions of grief, dispossession and agency and her recent work is focused on political violence and coloniality in Kashmir and prejudicial citizenship in India and the delimits of absolute nationalism. Her research also focuses on questions of majoritarianism, belonging and legacies of conflict across South Asia. In Kashmir, Chatterji co-founded (2008), and was co-convener of (2008-2012), the People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice. She was a Member of the Drafting Committee on Minimum Standards, Second World Congress on Psychosocial Restitution in 2010. Publications include: BREAKING WORLDS: Religion, Law, and Nationalism in Majoritarian India; The Story of Assam (2021); Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India (2019); Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence: The Right to Heal (2016); Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia; Notes on the Postcolonial Present (2012); Kashmir: The Case for Freedom(2011);Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India’s Present (2009); and the report, BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked and Mass Graves in Kashmir(2009).

Paola Bacchetta

Principal Advisor, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Research Initiative
Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies

Paola Bachetta is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Principal Advisor Advisor (and Co-chair January 2016 - April 2024) of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at University of California, Berkeley. Her books include: Co-Motion: Situated Planetarities, Co-Formations and Co-Productions in Feminist and Queer Alliances, forthcoming, Duke University Press;Femminismi Queer Postcoloniali: critiche transnazionali all’omofobia, all’islamofobia e all’omonazionalismo(Queer Postcolonial Feminisms: Transnational Critiques of Homophobia, Islamophobia and Homonationalism), contributing co-editor with Laura Fantone, Verona, Italy: Ombre Corte, 2015; Gender in the Hindu Nation: RSS Women as Ideologues, India: Women Ink, 2004; Right-Wing Women: From Conservatives to Extremists around the World, contributing co-editor with Margaret Power, New York: Routledge, 2002; Textes du Mouvement Lesbien en France, 1970-2000(Texts from the French Lesbian Movement, 1970-2000), co-editor with Claudie Lesselier, on DVD, self-published, 2011; and Global Racialities: Empire, Decoloniality and Post-Coloniality, co-edited with Sunaina Maira, forthcoming with Routledge. Professor Bacchetta has published about fifty academic journal articles and book chapters in many languages, on questions of gender, race, queer subjects, (de)colonialities, capitalism, political conflict, Islamophobia and social movements.

PCRes Distinguished Scholars

(Bios reflect scholars’ status at the time of their appointment at the Center for Race and Gender.)

Zuleikha Chaudhari

Zuleikha Chaudhari is Director of the Alkazi Theatre Archives at the Alkazi Foundation for the Arts in New Delhi, and has been Visiting Faculty at the Dramatic Art and Design Academy, New Delhi; National School of Drama, New Delhi; and Ashoka University, Haryana. Through installation and performance, her research and expression frame the structures and codes of performance and the function of the actor and viewer as intervention and resistance. Chaudhari majored in Theatre Directing and Light Design from Bennington College, Vermont. Her awards include: The India Today Art Award (2018) for Landscape as Evidence: Artist as Witness (Best Artistic Collaboration) and Sangeet Natak Academy (National Award) Yuva Puruskar (2007). She has participated in residency programs at DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program-Berliner Künstlerprogramm (2019); School of Law, Birkbeck, University of London (2017); and Nirox Residency in South Africa (2013). Her work in theater direction includes: “The Ideal Spectator: Open auditions at Tate Modern,” 2018, and “Rehearsing the Witness: The Bhawal Court Case,” Mumbai Art Room (2015), Kochi Biennale (2016), and Dhaka Art Summit (2018). Selected articles by Chaudhari include: ‘Rehearsing the Witness: The Bhawal Court Case [Testimony and Evidence]’, Portable Gray 2, No. 2 (2019): 196-214; and on her work include: Sheikh, Shela. “More-than-Human Cosmopolitics,” in Propositions for Non-Fascist Living: Tentative and Urgent, edited by Maria Hlavajova and Wietske Maas (BAK and MIT Press, 2019), 125-140.

Mihir Desai

Mihir Desai is Senior Counsel, Supreme Court of India, and the Mumbai High Court. Desai is co-founder of the Indian People’s Tribunal and the Human Rights Law Network, and the former Director of the India Center for Human Rights and Law. Desai is co-editor of Combat Law, a magazine focusing on human rights, law, and political analysis. He is co-editor of the book, Women and Law (1999). He has worked on issues of fake encounter and custodial killing, police brutality, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the rights of activists and prisoners of conscience, state excesses, mass disappearances, mass murders, torture, and genocide probes, security legislation, sexual assault and rape, and cases of survivors of Gujarat 2002. Together with Angana Chatterji, he co-convened the Indian People’s Tribunal on Communalism in Orissa, which investigated religionized violence in the state in 2005-2006, and was legal counsel to the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir, founded in 2008. Since 2019, Desai has been a defense lawyer in the Bhima Koregaon case, and for various other civil society leaders and public intellectuals.

Haley Duschinski

Haley Duschinski is a Distinguished Scholar (non-resident), Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Duschinski is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for International Studies at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. A Critical Kashmir Studies scholar, her research focuses on law, violence, war, power, human rights and international justice in Kashmir. Her recent publications include the Palgrave Handbook of New Directions in Kashmir Studies (co-edited; Palgrave 2023), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Kashmir Studies (co-edited; Routledge 2022), and Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (co-edited; U Penn Press 2018). She has also co-edited special issues of the Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law on comparative studies of occupation (2018), Critique of Anthropology on occupation and settler colonialism (2020), and Himalaya on war and suffering in Kashmir (2020). Her current book project is titled Terror Legalities: Law, Legitimacy, and Sovereignty in Kashmir. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University.

Parvez Imroz

Parvez Imroz is a Distinguished Scholar (non-resident), Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Imroz is a Member of the Bar (Advocate) at the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and Founding President, Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society (JKCCS). Imroz has been working to secure human rights and equality before the law in Kashmir since the late 1980s. He has initiated and led formative campaigns for human rights in a context of impunity and grave rights violations: including gendered and sexualized violence, torture, rapes, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial executions. Imroz has filed thousands of habeas corpus actions on behalf of families whose relatives have disappeared while in state custody. In 1994, he founded the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), which brings together hundreds of Kashmiri families whose members have been subjected to enforced disappearances. In 2008, Imroz and Angana Chatterji co-convened the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir (IPTK) and its formative report is entitled: BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves in Kashmir(link is external) (2009). He is a contributing author of numerous reports, including: Structures of Violence (2012); Terrorized: Impact of Violence on the Children of Jammu and Kashmir (2018); and Torture: Indian State’s Instrument of Control in Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir (2019). Imroz is a recipient of the Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize by Human Rights Institute of The Bar of Bordeaux, France and the European Bar Human Rights Institute. In 2017, Imroz was awarded the Rafto Prize.

Christophe Jaffrelot

Christophe Jaffrelot is a Distinguished Scholar (non-resident), Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Jaffrelot is a Senior Research Fellow at Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales at Sciences Po, Paris; Research Director at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and Professor of Indian Politics and Sociology at the India Institute, King’s College, London.

Khurram Parvez*

Khurram Parvez is a Distinguished Scholar (non-resident), Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Parvez is Chairperson of the Asian Federation against Involuntary Disappearances(link is external) and Program Coordinator, Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society and a human rights defender. Parvez was gravely injured in April 2004, when the vehicle he was travelling in during a fieldwork trip was hit in an IED explosion, leading to the death of two colleagues and the eventual amputation of his right leg. In 2007, his pioneering work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) led to the signing of the Unilateral Declaration of Mine Ban by the United Jehad Council, an amalgam of various militant organizations operating in India-Administered Kashmir. In 2006, Khurram received the Reebok Human Rights Award. From December 2005 to April 2006, Parvez was a Chevening Fellow at University of Glasgow, UK. In 2009, he participated in the United States Government’s International Visitors’ Leadership Program. In 2008, with Angana Chatterji and Parvez Imroz, Khurram Parvez was a founding member of the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir (IPTK). He is a contributing author of numerous reports, including: BURIED EVIDENCE: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves in Kashmir(link is external) (2009); Structures of Violence (2012); Terrorized: Impact of Violence on the Children of Jammu and Kashmir (2018); and Torture: Indian State’s Instrument of Control in Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir (2019).

*Since November 2021, Parvez has been unable to continue his work as a Distinguished Scholar as he remains in the custody of the State of India.

PCRes Research Fellows

(Bios reflect fellows’ status at the time of their appointment at the Center for Race and Gender.)

Yashica Dutt

Yashica Dutt, Research Fellow (non-resident), Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. A Dalit feminist writer and journalist, Dutt’s work focuses on making visible Dalit realities, struggles, and rights globally and understanding the materiality and disproportionate power of caste within India and the diaspora in the United States. Dutt’s work has been carried in The Atlantic, the New York Times, and Foreign Policy, and featured in The Guardian, BBC, and PBS Newshour. Her writing is part of Pen America’s “India at 75” anthology looking at India in its 75th year of independence. Dutt is the author of Coming Out As Dalit, published in South Asia in 2019. The book won the Indian Arts and Letters Award for young writers in 2020, among the first books written by a Dalit author in English to achieve this distinction. A revised and updated version was published in February 2024 from Beacon Press. She is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School.

Niha Masih

Niha Masih, Research Fellow (non-resident), Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Masih is a Staff Writer with The Washington Post based in Seoul covering urgent stories unfolding across the world. Previously, she was the India Correspondent for The Post in New Delhi. She specializes on issues of political and cultural life at the intersections of political conflict, race, gender and nationalism. Her formative and in-depth reporting from South Asia has featured on the front page of the newspaper, helping shape American and international understandings of a crucial region. She has an M.A. in Politics and Global Affairs from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, an M.A. in Convergent Journalism from Jamia University, and a B.A. from Lady Shriram College, University of Delhi. She has reported from a dozen countries, and in her work with The Post since 2019, she has written over 400 stories. She is the recipient of various significant awards, including the George Polk Award for technology reporting as part of The Post’s Pegasus Project team and the South Asia Journalists Association’s Daniel Pearl Award.

Raqib Hameed Naik

Raqib Hameed Naik is a Research Fellow (non-resident), Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Naik is Executive Director, Center for the Study of Organized Hate, a research and policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Previously, he founded HindutvaWatch.org, a research and documentation project that investigates the rise of Hindu nationalism and its targeting of religious minorities in India A multimedia journalist with nearly a decade of reporting experience in India, Indian-administered Kashmir, China, and the United States, his work focuses on political conflict, human rights, religious minorities, refugees, press freedom, the environment, and Hindu nationalism. His words, photographs, and documentaries have appeared or been quoted or used by The New York Times, Al Jazeera, The Nation Magazine, The Wire, Caravan, Time Magazine, Washington Post, and The Guardian. He holds an M.A. in Multimedia Journalism from the University of Bolton; Greater Manchester, and an M.A. from Jamia Millia University in New Delhi.

PCRes Research Affiliates

(Bios reflect status at the time of their appointment at the Center for Race and Gender.)

Pei-hsuan Wu

Pei-hsuan Wu is a Senior Research Associate, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. Her work focuses on critical and intersectional issues relating to Hindu nationalism and its influence on California textbooks, historical revisionism, and nationalism. She has worked and assisted on research and advocacy related to issues in South Asia and its Diasporas, including political and gendered violence, Hindu nationalism, the weaponization of security and citizenship laws against minorities and dissidents in
India, and human rights, law, and justice in Indian-administered Kashmir. She has an EdD from the University of San Francisco, an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, and a B.A. in Environmental Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Moosa Izzat

Moosa Izzat is a Research Associate, Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at the Center for Race and Gender at the University of California, Berkeley. He is enrolled in the LLM (Master of Law) Program in Human Rights at the University of Edinburgh and holds a B.A. LLB (Honors) from the West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata. His work focuses on the intersections of citizenship, states, the law.

PCRes Publications

Title	Author	Year	Publication type
BREAKING WORLDS: Religion, Law and Citizenship in Majoritarian India; The Story of Assam	Angana P. Chatterji; Mihir Desai; Harsh Mander; Abdul Kalam Azad	2021	Monograph, 2021
Gendered and Sexual Violence in and beyond South Asia	Angana P. Chatterji	2016	Journal Article, 2016

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RESEARCH ASSOCIATES & INTERNS

PCRes is generously assisted by:

Researchers, Student Interns and Externs from UC Berkeley, Stanford University, South Asia, and elsewhere
Research Associate: Pei Wu, Independent Scholar

PARTNERS

Academic Institutions:

Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley
Stanford University Libraries
Center for Human Rights and International Justice, Stanford University
Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research, Columbia University (Between 2013 – 2017)
Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University (Between 2013 – 2017)
International Human Rights Law Clinic, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (Between 2013 – 2015)
International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic, Stanford University Law School (Between 2012-2014)

International and Diaspora Civil Society Organizations:

Rafto Foundation for Human Rights
Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, Philippines
Asian Legal Resource Center, Hong Kong (holding general consultative status with the Economic and Social Council, United Nations) (Between 2012 – 2015)
Indian American Muslim Council (Between 2012 – 2015)

South Asia Civil Society Organizations:

Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, Jammu & Kashmir
Citizens for Justice and Peace, Mumbai
Khalra Mission Organization, Punjab (Between 2013-2015)
Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network (Between 2012-2013)
Prashant: Center for Human Rights, Justice, and Peace, Gujarat (Between 2013-2015)

INITIATORY ADVISORY GROUP (2012-2017)

Roxanna Altholz, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law & Associate Director, International Human Rights Law Clinic, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Betsy Apple, Advocacy Director, Open Society Justice Initiative, New York
Rajvinder Singh Bains, Counsel, Punjab High Court and Haryana High Court
Patrick Ball, Executive Director, Human Rights Data Analysis Group, San Francisco
Elazar Barkan, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Director of SIPA’s Human Rights Concentration & Director of the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, Columbia University
Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the Department of English & Director of the Humanities Center, Harvard University
Jacqueline Bhabha, Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, School of Public Health & Director of Research, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University
Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and Professor, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University
Wendy Brown, Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Shashi Buluswar, Development and Human Rights Specialist and Founding Co-chair, Armed Conflict Resolution and People’s Rights Project, Center for Social Sector Leadership, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, from 2012-2015
Urvashi Butalia, Author, Co-founder of Kali for Women, and Director of Zubaan, Delhi
Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature & Co-director of the Program of Critical Theory, University of California, Berkeley
Richard M. Buxbaum, Jackson H. Ralston Professor Emeritus of International Law, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Andrik Cardenas, Former Associate Director, Center for Social Sector Leadership, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University
Charlie Clements, Faculty, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative and Former Executive Director (2009-2015), Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Kennedy School, Harvard University
David Cohen, Director, WSD Handa Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford Global Studies, Stanford University, & Visiting Professor in the Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley; and Professor, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai`i
Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Malathi de Alwis, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Colombo
Mihir Desai, Senior Counsel, Mumbai High Court and Supreme Court of India
Laurel E. Fletcher, Clinical Professor of Law & Director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Bijo Francis, Executive Director, Asia Legal Resource Center, Hong Kong
Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia Director, Human Rights Watch
Pamela M. Graham, Director, Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research and Director of Global Studies, Lehman Social Sciences Library, Columbia University
Sam Gregory, Program Director, WITNESS, New York
Inderpal Grewal, Professor, Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Yale University
Thomas Bolm Hansen, Reliance-Dhirubhai Ambani Professor in South Asian Studies, Professor in Anthropology, and Director of Center for South Asia, Stanford University
Parvez Imroz, Counsel, Jammu & Kashmir High Court and President, Jammu & Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, Srinagar
Abdul R. JanMohamed, Professor, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Isfundiar Kasuri, Program Director, Justice Project Pakistan
Mallika Kaur, Human Rights and Gender Specialist and Director of Programs, Armed Conflict Resolution and People’s Rights Project, Center for Social Sector Leadership, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, from 2012-2015
Amitava Kumar, Helen D. Lockwood Professor of English, Vassar College
Vinay Lal, Associate Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
Harsh Mander, Director, Center for Equity Studies, Delhi
Jaykumar Menon, Legal Expert and Professor of Practice, McGill University
Ritu Menon, Writer, Co-founder of Kali for Women, and Publisher of Women Unlimited, Delhi
Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Sociology, and the Cultural Foundations of Education & Dean’s Professor of the Humanities, Syracuse University
Binalakshmi Nepram, Founder, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network, Delhi and Manipur
Khurram Parvez, Program Coordinator, Jammu & Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, Srinagar
Sudhir Pattnaik, Civil Society Leader and Editor of Samadrusti, a human rights news magazine, Bhubaneswar
C. Ryan Perkins, South Asian Studies Librarian, Stanford University
Jyoti Puri, Professor of Sociology, Simmons College
Paul Rabinow, Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Laura Ring, Cataloger and Southern Asia Librarian, University of Chicago
Kathy Roberts, Legal Director, Center for Justice and Accountability
Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
Richard Rudd, Sutter East Bay Medical Foundation, Berkeley
Jeremy Sarkin, Professor of Law, University of South Africa and Distinguished Visiting Professor, Nova University Law School, Lisbon, Portugal & Former Chairperson of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances
Stefan Schmitt, Director, International Forensic Program, Physicians for Human Rights
Kim Thuy Seelinger, Director, Sexual Violence Program, Human Rights Center, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley
Shuddhabrata Sengupta, Artist, Curator, Raqs Media Collective, New Delhi
Teesta Setalvad, Secretary, Citizens for Justice and Peace, Mumbai
Dina Siddiqi, Professor, Anthropology Collective and Economics and Social Sciences Department, BRAC University, Dhaka
Nora Silver, Faculty Director, Center for Social Sector Leadership, Haas School of Business, University of California, BerkeleyKhatharya Um, Associate Professor and Coordinator, Asian American and Asian Diaspora Studies, Chair, Peace and Conflict Studies & Faculty Academic Director, Berkeley Study Abroad, University of California, Berkeley

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