Faculty — International Relations

Lionel Fatton is assistant professor and Program Head of the BA in International Relations at the Webster Geneva Campus. He is also research collaborator at the Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, Meiji University, Tokyo. His research interest lies in security dynamics in the Indo-Pacific, China-Japan-U.S.-Taiwan relations, Japan and China’s foreign security policies and Neoclassical realism. He holds a PhD in Political Science, specialization International Relations, from Sciences Po Paris and two MA in International Relations from Waseda University in Tokyo and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.

Books

Fatton, L.P. (2023). “Japan’s Rush to the Pacific War: The Institutional Roots of Overbalancing” (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan), 313pp.

Fatton, L.P., Foppiani, O. (2019).  “Japan's Awakening: Moving Toward an Autonomous Security Policy” (Bern and New York: Peter Lang), 375pp. Winner of the Otto Hieronymi Prize 2019 and finalist at the Asian Studies Book Fair, 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 11), Leiden, July 2019.

Publications

Fatton, L.P. (2024). Vers une nouvelle ère de militarisation (et d’instabilité ?) en Indo-Pacifique. In J. Fernandez, J-B. Jeangène Vilmer and J. Massie (eds), “Indo-Pacifique, région stratégique.” pp. 1-19. Édition des équateurs.

Fatton, L.P. (2024). Departing from isolationism: Japan’s emergence as a regional security actor. 9DashLine, May 2024.

Fatton, L.P. (2024). Sailing close to the wind: Japan’s forward deterrence posture toward the Taiwan Strait. Asian Security, Vol. 20, Issue 1, 2024.

Fatton, L.P. (2022). Vers une nouvelle ère de militarisation (et d’instabilité?) en Indo-Pacifique. Le Rubicon, July 2022.

Fatton, L.P. (2020). New Japanese Strike Weapons Could Spark an Asian Arms Race. The National Interest, September 2020.

Fatton, L.P. (2020). Japan’s Space Program: Shifting Away from ‘Non-Offensive’ Purposes? Asie.Visions, Institut français de relations internationales (Ifri), July 2020.

Fatton, L.P. (2020). Is Japan entering the new space race? East Asia Forum, Feb. 2020.

Fatton L.P. (2019). All eyes on Washington. Policy Forum, October 2019.

Fatton L.P. (2019). Japan’s awakening to a multipolar world. East Asia Forum, June 2019.

Fatton L.P. (2019). A new spear in Asia: why is Japan moving toward autonomous defense? International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, Vol. 19, Issue 2, pp. 297-325.

Fatton L.P. (2018). ‘Japan is back’: Autonomy and balancing amidst an unstable China-U.S.-Japan triangle. Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies, Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp. 264-78.

Fatton L.P. (2018). ‘Japan is Back’: but which Japan? Policy Forum, May 2018.

Fatton L.P. (2017). A US-China Entente Cordiale to Relieve the North Korean Headache. IPI Global Observatory, September 2017.

Fatton L.P. (2017). Institutional Dynamics, Civil-Military Relations and Japan’s 1936 Withdrawal from the Washington System. The Journal of the Research Institute for the History of Global Arms Transfer, No. 4, pp. 25-39.

Fatton L.P. (2017). Could China’s Diplomatic Proposal Break the North Korean Deadlock? IPI Global Observatory, June 2017.

Fatton L.P. (2017). Stabilising East Asia by striking Syria. Policy Forum, April 2017.

Editorial/peer reviewing activities

Member of the Advisory Board, “Conflict Barometer,” Heidelberg Institute for International Conflict Research, University of Heidelberg.

Peer reviews: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/471579

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7036-4318

Email: lionelfatton62@webster.edu

 

Jubin M. Goodarzi is Associate Professor and Acting Director of the International Relations Department at Webster Geneva Campus. He was previously a consultant and political adviser on Middle Eastern affairs for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva. He has also worked with a number of U.S. and U.K. research institutes and foundations, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London, and the Ford Foundation in New York. Dr. Goodarzi is author of Syria and Iran: Diplomatic Alliance and Power Politics in the Middle East (London: I.B. Tauris, 2009), and numerous articles and book reviews on the international relations of the Middle East.

Books

Goodarzi, J.M. (2006). “Syria and Iran: Diplomatic Alliance & Power Politics in the Middle East” (London: I.B. Tauris), pp. 368 (Original Hardback Edition).

Goodarzi, J.M. (2009). “Syria and Iran: Diplomatic Alliance & Power Politics in the Middle East” (London: I.B. Tauris), pp. 376 (Paperback Edition with a new and updated preface).

Publications

Goodarzi J.M. (2013). Syria and Iran: Alliance Politics in an Evolving Regional Environment, Middle Eastern Studies: Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 31-54.

Goodarzi J.M. (2012). Syria and Iran: Alliance Politics in a Changing Regional Environment, Orient: German Journal for Politics, Economics and Culture of the Middle East, Vol. 53, No. 3, 2012, pp. 38-44.

Goodarzi, J.M. (2010). Radicalism or Realpolitik? The Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Babylon: The Nordic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 80-91.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Goodarzi, J.M. (2013). Iran and Syria: An Enduring Alliance, in Iran and the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, edited by Chehabi, H.E., Farhad K. and Therme, C. (Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers), pp. 266-284.

Goodarzi, J.M. (2013). Iran: Syria as the First Line of Defence, in The Regional Struggle for Syria, edited by Barnes-Dacey, J., and Levy, D. (London: European Council on Foreign Relations), pp. 25-31.

Goodarzi, J.M. (2010). Iran and the Region: Iran and Syria, in The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and US Policy, edited by Wright, R. (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace) pp. 175-177.

Email: jubingoodarzi71@webster.edu

 

Christophe Germann received his PhD from the University of Bern where he also served as Law Faculty in International Relations and International Law related to Artificial Intelligence.

 

Email: cgermann80@webster.edu

Ivana Machonova Schellongova has more than 20 years of experience in international human rights law, litigations, negotiations, and diplomacy, including in the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the End Human Trafficking Now (EHTN) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. She works in the Human Rights Treaties Branch of OHCHR and manages the Special Fund on Torture Prevention (OPCAT Special Fund). She collaborates with the Research Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Charles University where she serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the Human Rights Bulletin and is a visiting lecturer at the Prague Economic University on business and human rights. She holds a PhD and JD in International Law, the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague, and Master in International Relations, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and Master in Law, the Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Brno.

Neuroscience and Human Rights, Human Rights Bulletin, Charles University, 2024.

Death Penalty and Prohibition of Torture, Human Rights Bulletin, Charles University, 2023.

Draft Legally Binding Instrument on Business and Human Rights, Azem Gealfow and Ivana Machonova Schellongova, International and Comparative Law Review, Issue 1, 2022.

Reservations to International Human Rights Treaties and the Practice of the Czech Republic, Czech Law Journal, Vol. 1, 2022.

The Practice of the European Court and the Human Rights Committee – convergence or divergence? in “70th Anniversary of the European Convention on Human Rights” (Pavel Sturma and Alla Tymofeyeva, eds.), Science & New Media Passau-Berlin-Prague, 2021.

Right to a Peaceful Assembly, General Comment of the Human Rights Committee, Human Rights Bulletin, Charles University, Vol. 2, 2020.

Are Human Rights Universal? The Legacy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in “70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (Pavel Sturma and Milan Lipovsky, eds.), Science & New Media, Passau-Berlin-Prague, 2019.

United Nations Human Rights Treaty Bodies’ Approach to States’ Obligations in the Context of Business Activities, in “Business and Human Rights,” (Pavel Sturman and Vinicius Almada Mozetic, eds.), Science & New Media Passau-Berlin-Prague, 2018.

Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, Human Rights Bulletin, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, Vol. 3, 2016.

What Regulations for Corporations and Business Enterprises with respect to Human Rights? Acta Oeconomica Pragensis, Economic University, Prague, Vol. 5, 2015.

A New International Instrument on Business and Human Rights, Human Rights Bulletin, Faculty of Law, Charles University, Prague, Vol. 2, 2015.

The United Nations Treaty Bodies Interim Measures: An Effective Instrument of Human Rights Protection? Czech Law Journal, Vol. 8, 2015.

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflicts, Czech Law Journal, Vol. 6, 2002.

Email: ivanam73@webster.edu

Carlo Maria Marenghi is a civil servant of the Secretariat of State of the Holy See. Marenghi is a Doctor summa cum laude in International Law with the Pontifical Lateran University . His doctoral thesis analysed the TRIPS provisions in the LDCs and their impact on the national juridical systems. Mr. Marenghi has written extensively and published on health, trade, IP, labor and human rights including from the perspective of the social doctrine of the Catholic Church. Since 2020 he has held the position of adjunct professor with the Pontifical Lateran University in the Peace Sciences Department. Marenghi was born in Avellino, Italy and spent 15 years working as legal advisor for the Permanent Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva and the World Trade Organization.

Books

Marenghi, C.M. (Ed.) (2020). “A Common Journey for Social Justice, 1919–2019. The Holy See and the International Labor Organization&rduo; (Rome: Lateran University Press), 56 pp.

Email: cmarenghi29@webster.edu

Joseph Marques is specialized in global governance, cities migration and climate change, and Latin American politics. He holds a PhD from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva (Switzerland). He is a visiting research scholar at the Latin American Centre of the University of Oxford and at the Brazil Institute of King's College in London. Marques is also chair of the economics and politics section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and a member of the editorial board of Conjuntura Austral - Journal of the Global South. He hosts the podcast “Econopolitics” and is a former senior international banking executive.

 

Email: josephmarques41@webster.edu

Heikki Mattila earned an MA in Economics and Sociology from the University of Helsinki and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Geneva. With expertise in migration, he has built a diverse career spanning government roles, international organizations, and academia, including positions with Finland's Ministry of Labor and the International Organization for Migration (IOM). As a consultant for the IOM, Mattila advised on migration policy development in Nigeria and Turkey, assessed migrants' humanitarian needs in Chad and coordinated research on internal displacement in Iraq. Mattila’s publications cover topics like human trafficking, irregular migration and human rights, and he has a strong interest in areas such as migrants' health, reproductive rights and comparative health systems.

Mattila has written or co-edited works like "You Want a Multicultural Immigration Country, but We Don’t Want It," "Ideologies, Interests, and Discursive Strategies in German Parliamentary Debate on the 2004 Migration Law," "Between Sanctions and Rights: Addressing the Irregular Employment of Immigrants in the European Union," "Permanent or Circular Migration? Policy Choices to Address Demographic Decline and Labor Shortages in Europe" and "Between Demand and Supply: Regional Analysis of the Supply and Demand for Sexual Services and Trafficking in Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia."

Email: heikkimattila50@webster.edu

Dr. Johanna Möhring is Visiting Fellow at the Global Governance Centre (GGC), IHEID-Graduate Institute, Geneva, Chercheuse associée at the Centre interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux stratégiques (CIENS), École Normale Supérieure, Paris and associate fellow at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS), University of Bonn. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Paris-Panthéon-Assas, an MA in International Relations (Strategic Studies/ Russian and Eastern European Area Studies) from SAIS, Johns Hopkins, and an MA in Public Policy/ Public Administration from the University of Konstanz. Her research focuses on European defense and security, and military power in the 21st century. She serves as ambassador for Women In International Security (WIIS) France.

EUDIS, HEDI, DIANA: What’s Behind Three Defence Innovation Acronyms?, Ifri Memos, Ifri, September 2024.

Russia’s strategy in the Ukraine war: Restoring Russian greatness by any means, in S. Hansen, K. Frankenthal and O. Husieva (dirs.), “Russia's War of Aggression against Ukraine. ‘Zeitenwende’ for German Security Policy,” Nomos Verlag, Baden-Baden, 2023. 

Troubled Twins: The FCAS and MGCS Weapon Systems and Franco-German Co-operation, Étude de l’Ifri, Ifri, December 2023.

 

Susanne Peters is currently lecturer at the International Relations Department of Webster Geneva Campus. She has worked at several European and North American universities in the positions of researcher, assistant and visiting professor, including at Harvard University, the European University Institute in Florence, at the Universities of Frankfurt, Jena and Giessen and York University in Toronto. Before joining Webster in 2013 she has been managing Kent State University’s Geneva program as well as teaching the program’s political science classes. She has published widely on energy security, climate change and security, and European security policy. In Spring 2016 she was invited as a research fellow at Tongji University, Shanghai. Her PhD in political science is from the European University Institute, Florence.

Book (single-authored)

“The Germans and the INF Missiles: Getting Their Way in NATO's Strategy of Flexible Response,” (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 1990).

Edited book and Edited Special Issue

Editor of a Special Issue of “New Political Science, Critical Approaches in International Politics,” (Vol.18, No.1, Spring 1996), (together with Micheline Ishay).

“The Changing European Security Environment,” (Weimar-Jena: Böhlau Verlag, 1996), (edited together with Christoph Lotter).

Articles (peer reviewed)

The ‘tight oil revolution’ and its consequences for the European Union: a ‘wake up call’ for its neglected energy security, Security and Peace, (Vol.32, No.3, Fall 2014), pp. 170-175.

Coercive Western Energy Security Strategies: New ‘Resource Wars’ as a Threat to Global Security, Geopolitics, (9/1, Spring 2004), pp. 187-212.

• Reprinted in Benjamin K. Sovacool (ed.), “Energy Security,” (SAGE Library of International Relations, 2014).
• Reprinted in Phillipe Le Billon (ed.), “The Geopolitics of Resource Wars. Resource Dependence, Governance and Violence” (London, New York: Frank Cass, 2005), pp. 187-212.

The New Spirit of German Geopolitics, Geopolitics, (7/3 Winter 2002), pp. 1-18 (together with Jonathan Bach).

The ‘West’ Against the ‘Rest’: Geopolitics after the End of the Cold War, Geopolitics, (4/3 December 1999), pp. 29-46.

Articles

The Shift of EU Energy Policy and its Implications for China (together with Maximilian Mayer), China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies, (Vol.3. No.1, 2017), pp. 137-158.

Crises and no end? The EU’s constitutional debacle, its external relations, and its unwavering path to a Common Foreign and Security Policy, International Almanach “Europe,” No. 6, Tyumen State University Press, Tyumen, 2006 (together with Kirsten Westphal, translated into Russian).

Vneshnaia politika i politika bezopasnosti ES: Ot regionalogo k global’nomu aktoru? (The CFSP of the EU: A regional or a global role?), v: Rossijko-evrpoejskoe partnerstvo v kontekste meshdunarodnych otnoshenij. (together with Kirsten Westphal). Collected Volume, (State University of Economy and Social Science, Saratov, Russia, 2005), pp. 99-121.

Courting Future Resource Conflict: the Shortcoming of Western Response Strategies to New Energy Vulnerabilities, Energy Exploration and Exploitation, (21/1, 2003), pp. 29-60.

Germany’s Security Policy after Unification: Taking the Wrong Models, European Security, (6/2, Spring 1997), pp. 18-47.

Multilateralidad: Una mascara para la militarizacion de la seguridad?, Papeles, Centro de Investigacion para la Paz, (No.59/60, 1996/1997), pp. 101-113.

Multilateralism: A Mask for the Militarization of Western European Security Policy, in Lotter/Peters, pp. 128-156.

Deutschland’s neue Ostpolitik, in Paul Létournau (ed.), Revue d’Allemagne, Strasbourg, (27/3, September 1995), pp. 419-432.

La reestructuración del sistema de defensa alemán, Mariano Aguirre (ed.), “Ruptura de hegemonías, Anuario CIP 1994-1995” (Icaria: Madrid, Barcelona, 1995), pp. 41-60.

GASP und WEU: Wegbereiter einer Supermacht Europa? in Elfriede Regelsberger (ed.), “Die Gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der Europäischen Union.” Analysen 9, (Bonn: Europa Union Verlag, 1993), pp. 139-154.

Germany's Future Defense Policy: Opening Up the Option for German Power Politics, German Politics and Society (No.26, Spring 1992), pp. 54-74.

The Euromissiles Debate in Retrospect, Review article on Jeffrey Herf, “War by other Means: Soviet Power, West German Resistance, and the Battle of the Euromissiles.” Telos, (No.88, Summer 1991), pp. 205-210.

The Germans and the INF Treaty: Ostrich Policy Towards an Unresolvable Strategic Dilemma, Arms Control, (10/1, May 1989), pp. 21-42.

Book Chapters

Energy Technology, Climate Change, and Security in the Anthropocene, in Maria Julia Trombetta (ed.), “Handbook of Climate Change and International Security,” Edward Elgar Publisher, (Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA, US: Edward Elgar Publisher, 2023), pp. 238-256, (together with Maximilian Mayer).

The ‘Tight Oil Revolution’ and the Misinterpretation of the Power of Technology, in Maximilian Mayer et. al. (eds.), “The Global Politics of Science and Technology. Perspectives, Cases and Methods, Vol.2,” (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2014), pp. 83-100 (together with Werner Zittel).

Energy Supply Issues: Scale, Perception and the Return of Geopolitics, in Hugh Dyer and Julia Trombetta, “International Handbook of Energy Security,” (Cheltenham, UK and Northhampton, MA, US: Edward Elgar publishers 2013), pp. 92-113 (together with Kirsten Westphal).

Providing Security in a Changing World? The Old Continent’s Security Strategy Revisited, in Christoph Schuck et.al., (Hg.) “Nachdenken über Europa. Probleme und Perspektiven eines Ordnungsmodells,” Nomos, 2009 (together with Kirsten Westphal).

Other Publications

The Future Energy Security Environment: No alternative to a radical energy shift, in “Energy Security and Security Policy: NATO and the Role of International Security Actor,” NATO School Research Department, Fall 2007.

“The CFSP/ESDP: from the Tail Light to the Future Motor of European Integration?” Special Policy Paper, AIP 776 Course material, August 2004, Deakin University, Australia, (together with Kirsten Westphal).

“Building Up the Potential for Resource Wars: The Shortcoming of Western Response Strategies to New Energy Vulnerabilities,” EUI Working Paper, Transatlantic Series (refereed), RSC No.2003/9.

“Germany’s Security Policy after Unification: Taking the Wrong Models,” Working Paper, Center for German and European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 1996.

“Germany after the end of the Cold War: Arriving at a New Raison d’état?” Working Paper, No.14, May 1994, Center for International and Strategic Studies, York University.

Short articles “Rapid Deployment Force” and “National Security Council” in Lexikon USA, Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin/Bielefeld/München, 1994, pp.507-508 and pp. 630-631.

“Bibliography” in Uwe Holtz (ed.), Entwicklung und Rüstung, Vol. 32, Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag, 1984.

Email: susannepeters94@webster.edu

Marcello Puca is an assistant professor at the University of Bergamo and research fellow at the Center for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF) and Webster Geneva Campus. He obtained two master's degrees in quantitative economics from the Toulouse School of Economics and a PhD in Economics from the University of Naples Federico II. He has been visiting scholar at the Northwestern University School of Law and the Catholic University of Sacred Heart. His research focuses on law and economics and applied microeconomics, with a focus on group decision-making. His has expertise in theoretical modelling, traditional empirical methods and laboratory experiments, and has taught at the undergraduate, graduate and MBA level.

Publications

Buonanno, P., S. Galletta, and M. Puca. The role of civic capital on vaccination. Forthcoming on Health Economics (2023). Open access link.

Buonanno, P., G. Plevani, and M. Puca. Earthquake hazard and civic capital. Forthcoming on European Journal of Political Economy (2023).

Puca, M. and Pignatti, C.. (2022). “Le misure a supporto di lavoratori e imprese durante la pandemia di COVID-19 in Italia.” International Labour Organization, Rome 2022. ISBN: 978-92-2-036590-8

Puca, M. and Gavrilova-Zoutman E. (2022).Peer Effects in Crime, forthcoming in “A Modern Guide to the Economics of Crime,” Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.

Buonanno, P. and Puca, M. (2021). Using newspaper obituaries to ‘nowcast’ daily mortality: Evidence from the Italian COVID-19 hot-spots. Health Policy.

Buonanno P., Galletta S., Puca M. (2020) Estimating the severity of COVID-19: Evidence from the Italian epicenter. PLoS ONE 15(10): e0239569.

Email: marcellopuca01@webster.edu

       

Gervais Rufyikiri has diversified experience both in the academic and political fields. During his position as Vice President of Burundi (2010-2015) and previously as President of the Senate of Burundi (2005-2010), he contributed to building post-conflict institutions, initiating and implementing reforms for good governance, political stability and economic growth. Rufyikiri has been involved in teaching and research in diverse fields and universities. Since 2017, he carries out research and teaches courses at the Geneva Center for Security Policy on the topics of leadership, security, governance and development in fragile states. He also teaches courses on ‘Climate, Water and Food Security’ at Webster University Geneva, and on ‘Sustainable Development’ at SWISS-UMEF University of Applied Sciences. Rufyikiri was educated in Burundi and Belgium. He holds a doctoral degree in biological, agronomic and environmental engineering from UCL (2000).

Agriculture and Environment Fields

Irakoze, H. Prodjinoto, S. Nijimbere, J.B. Bizimana, J. Bigirimana, G. Rufyikiri, S. Lutts. 2021. NaCl- and Na₂SO₄-Induced Salinity Differentially Affect Clay Soil Chemical Properties and Yield Components of Two Rice Cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) in Burundi, Agronomy, 11, 571.

Irakoze, H. Prodjinoto, S. Nijimbere, G. Rufyikiri and S. Lutts. 2020.NaCl and Na₂SO₄ Salinities Have Different Impact on Photosynthesis and Yield-Related Parameters in Rice (Oryza sativa L.), Agronomy, Vol. 10, no. 6, 1-12.

Irakoze, B. Vanpee, G. Rufyikiri, et al. 2019. Comparative effects of chloride and sulfate salinities on two contrasting rice cultivars (Oryza sativa L.) at the seedling stage, Journal of Plant Nutrition, 2019, Vol. 42(9), 1001-1015.

Political Field

Rufyikiri. 2021. Resilience in Post-civil War, Authoritarian Burundi: What Has Worked and What Has Not? Geneva Paper 28/21, Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

Rufyikiri. 2020. Reshaping approaches to sustainable peacebuilding and development in fragile states. Part I: Nexus between unethical leadership and state fragility, Geneva Papers 26/20, Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

Rufyikiri. 2020. Reshaping approaches to sustainable peacebuilding and development in fragile states. Part II. A Comprehensive Educational Programme on Ethics, Geneva Papers 27/20, Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

Investing in ethical education to solve Burundi’s domestic governance, Strategic Security Analysis, 2019. Geneva Centre for Security Policy.

The Post-wartime Trajectory of CNDD-FDD Party in Burundi: A Facade Transformation of Rebel Movement to Political Party, Civil Wars, 2017, vol. 19(2), 220-248.

Burundi and its development partners: navigating the turbulent tides of governance setbacks, Working Paper, 2017.

Corruption au Burundi: problème d’action collective et défi majeur pour la gouvernance, in “L’Afrique des Grands Lacs, Annuaire 2015-2016,” 2016, p.69-91.

Email: gervaisrufyikiri@webster.edu

Jeanette Tantillo has two master’s degrees, one from the Bloustein School of City and Regional Planning at Rutgers University and the other from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. She has worked at various non-governmental organizations in Geneva organizing and moderating dialogues, acting as liaison, and providing documentation, presentations and training on sustainable development in the areas of digital technologies, trade and ethics. She began working at Webster Geneva Campus in 2007, where for over 15 years she has engaged students in exploring the complicated mandates of international organizations, including the contributions and impacts of civil society, corporations and digital technologies. She is otherwise a private consultant for lectures, research and editing; a Model United Nations trainer; a poet and fiction author; hostess of the Geneva Open Mic Poetry Readings; and an optimistic gardener with moderate success.

 

Email: jtantillo84@webster.edu

Kristina Touzenis is an internationally recognized expert in international cooperation, negotiation, advocacy and international law and global policy development with over 20 years of experience working across government, private and NGO sectors, particularly in the area of international migration. Proven track record of leading multi-stakeholder initiatives, shaping global strategies and advising on human rights integration in high-stakes environments. She is an advocate and leader on promoting effective implementation of international standards, with experience in multilateral negotiations, support to field operations worldwide, specifically in migration and displacement contexts.

Touzenis holds an LLB and LLM from the University of Copenhagen and has worked on practically promoting respect for international law  since her graduation.

 

Email: kristinatouzenis@webster.edu

Michel Veuthey holds a doctorate in law from the University of Geneva (1976). He has delivered numerous lectures and courses on international humanitarian law and is the author of a book and nearly fifty articles on humanitarian law and action. He has been a Member of the Swiss Association of the Order of Malta since 1986, and has served as a Member of the Council for nine years.

 Veuthey served with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for 33 years, from 1967 to 2000. During his tenure, he held several key positions: member of the Legal Division during the preparatory work and sessions of the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts (1974-1977), head of the International Organizations Division, general delegate for Europe and North America, assistant to the president of the ICRC, regional head of delegation for Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean (based in Pretoria), and legal adviser for the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. He also completed several short-term operational missions in Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Books

“Guérilla et droit humanitaire, Genève, Institut Henry-Dunant, 1976.” Deuxième édition augmentée : Genève, CICR, 1983, 451 p.

Articles

Veuthey, M. (2020). Refonder la coopération internationale. In M. Feix, M.-J. Tiel, P.H. Dembinski (Eds.), “Peuple et populisme, identité et nation.” Quelle contribution à la paix? Quelles perspectives européennes? (pp. 267-289). Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg.

L’Union Européenne et l’obligation de faire respecter le droit international humanitaire, in : Anne-Sophie Millet-Devalle (Ed.). “L’Union Européenne et le Droit International Humanitaire.” Colloque. Nice, 18-19 juin 2009. Paris, Pedone, 2010, pp. 189-216.

Challenges and Opportunities in Applying International Humanitarian Law in Urban Warfare, in Alexandre Vautravers and Nicholas Burtscher (Eds.) “Military and Political Incidents. Webster University Geneva Security Forum 2009.” Geneva, Webster University, 2010, pp. 32-41.

Le rôle des acteurs non-étatiques dans le respect du droit international humanitaire. Annuaire Français des Relations Internationales (AFRI), Paris, Vol. X, 2009, pp. 993-1020.

De l’applicabilité du droit humanitaire aux opérations de paix: pour des approches juridiques, militaires et éthiques, in Beruto, Gian Luca (Ed.) “International Humanitarian Law, Human Rights and Peace Operations.” SanRemo, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, 2009, pp. 56-62.

Religions et droit international humanitaire: histoire et actualité d’un dialogue nécessaire, in Anne-Sophie Millet-Devalle (Ed.) “Religions et Droit International Humanitaire.” Paris, Pedone, 2008, pp. 9-45.

Genève, carrefour de la diplomatie multilatérale, formelle et informelle, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 26, Issue 4, 2007, pp. 155-162.

From Confrontation to Cooperation: From Criminal Justice towards Reconciliation – The Needs for Complementary Approaches, in Beruto, Gian Luca (Ed.) “Justice and Reconciliation. An Integrated Approach.” SanRemo, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, 2007, pp. 113-119.

Protecting Human Dignity in All Circumstances: Towards a Continuum of Protection, Refugee Survey Quarterly, Vol. 25, Issue 4, 2006, pp. 162-167.

Implementing International Humanitarian Law: Old and New Ways, in : Ramcharan, Bertrand G. (Ed.) “Human Rights Protection in the Field.” Leiden/Boston, Martinus Nijhoff, 2006, pp. 87-117.

The need for a universal humanitarian order. Foresight, Vol. 7, No 1 2005, pp. 26-46.

Public Conscience in International Humanitarian Law Today, in Fischer, Horst, Froissart, Ulrike, Heintschell von Heinegg, Wolff, Raap (Editors) “Krisensicherung und Humanitärer Schutz – Crisis Management and Humanitarian Protection.” Festschrift für Dieter Fleck, Berlin, Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag (BWV), 2004, pp. 611-642.

Email: michelveuthey42@webster.edu