Programme advisory board: Recording Casualties of Armed Conflict
Elizabeth Minor
Elizabeth Minor is the Recording Casualties of Armed Conflict programme’s Researcher. She first joined Oxford Research Group as an intern in 2009 during which time she oversaw the inauguration of the practitioner network. She has since worked as a Researcher for Iraq Body Count. She holds an MSc in Comparative Politics, Conflict Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science; her dissertation examined the transitional justice goals attached to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She also holds a first class degree in History from University College London. Elizabeth also works at a homeless women’s hostel and voluntarily with asylum seekers.
Hamit Dardagan
Hamit Dardagan became ORG’s Consultant on Civilian Casualties in War in March 2007. He is co-founder and principal researcher at Iraq Body Count (IBC), where he has taken the lead on the development of IBC's analytic tools and ouputs.. He has written for Counterpunch, and has undertaken research for a number of organisations, including Greenpeace. He has been chair of Kalayaan a human rights campaign for overseas domestic workers in the UK, which led to significant enhancement in their legal rights.
John Sloboda
John Sloboda is Consultant and Director of Oxford Research Group's Recording Casualties in Armed Conflict programme and chairs its International Advisory Group. From 2004 to 2009 he was Executive Director of ORG. Some concluding remarks on his six years in this role may be downloaded here. He is also Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Keele, and an Honorary Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. Since 2003, he has been co-director of the Iraq Body Count project, which remains the only continuously updated source of event-based information about civilian casualties in the ongoing Iraq conflict. He undertakes regular speaking engagements, and is an occasional author for openDemocracy. In July 2004, John was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy.
Rachel Joyce
Rachel Joyce joined the Oxford Research Group as an intern in April, working largely within the legal project of the Recording Casualties of Armed Conflict programme. Rachel graduated with distinction from King's College, London, in January 2010 with an MA in Criminology and Criminal Justice. She received the ICPR Prize for Best Dissertation 2008/2009 for her paper "The Causational Factors of Detainee Abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison." Her main interests are state crime, mass atrocity, human rights and dehumanisation. Concurrently to her work at ORG, she is involved as a researcher, online communications officer and advocacy project coordinator with the Tamil Information Centre and its sister branch, the Tamil Women's Development Forum. Rachel will begin an MPhil in King's College in September 2010. She also holds a Bachelor's degree in Civil Law from the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Dr Susan Breau
Susan Breau is Legal consultant to ORG's Recording Casualties in Armed Conflict Programme. Currently Reader in the School of Law at the University of Surrey, she will take up a new position as Professor of International Law at Flinders University, Australia from July 2010. Her research interests are concentrated in public international law and the international protection of human rights, particularly those issues relating to the use of force. She was awarded her Ph.D. in 2003 at LSE for her research into Humanitarian Intervention under the supervision of Professor Christopher Greenwood. She was the Dorset Fellow in Public International Law at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law for three years. Prior to that appointment she was a lecturer in international law and human rights at Queen's University Belfast where she assisted in the administration of their LLM in Human Rights Programmes and she has also lectured on the law of armed conflict in the LLM programme at the London School of Economics.
