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Staff Profile: Anthony Dworkin

Recent Commentary

• The International Criminal Court: A Time for Consolidation
  28 May 10
• EE UU-UE: más allá de la ‘guerra contra el terrorismo’
  17 Jul 09
• Europe must help close Guantánamo
  04 Jun 09
• End of the “war on terror”: what next?
  27 May 09
• Sri Lanka - dealing with the legacy of a brutal war
  20 May 09
• Human rights - a time for reflection
  10 Dec 08
• A new partnership in support of international law
  05 Nov 08
• Europe should support the ICC over Darfur
  14 Jul 08
• EU governments should welcome today's ECHR ruling on torture
  28 Feb 08
• Is the EU living up to its rhetoric on human rights?
  08 Feb 08

Anthony Dworkin joined ECFR in January 2008 as a Senior Policy Fellow working on human rights, international justice and international humanitarian law. 

He is also executive director of the Crimes of War Project (http://www.crimesofwar.org/), a non-governmental organisation that promotes understanding of international humanitarian law and its application in contemporary armed conflict.  Before taking over as executive director in 2005, he was in charge of the Crimes of War Project's editorial direction.  He co-edited the recent revised and updated edition of Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (Norton, 2007).

Anthony is a contributing editor of the British journal Prospect and has also written for the Times Literary Supplement, the Guardian, the International Herald Tribune, the New Statesman, OpenDemocracy, the Lebanon Daily Star and other publications.  He is a member of the Terrorism/Counter-Terrorism Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch. 

He is frequently interviewed in the media about war crimes and international justice and has spoken widely on these subjects at conferences and other public events.  Before joining the Crimes of War Project he was a senior producer and reporter for BBC Current Affairs, working primarily for the Radio 4 programme Analysis.

Languages: English, French (conversational).

Areas of Expertise: International humanitarian law, human rights, international justice, U.S. foreign policy.

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ECFR publications:

Beyond the "War on Terror": Towards a New Transatlantic Framework for Counterterrorism, policy brief, published 27 May 2009.

Other recent publications include:

Terrorism and Humanitarian Intervention (co-author) in Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (revised and updated edition), edited by Roy Gutman, David Rieff and Anthony Dworkin (Norton, 2007)

The Case for Minor Utopias, Prospect, July 2007

Bosnia vs Serbia: Law Matters, OpenDemocracy, March 2, 2007

Israel's High Court on Targeted Killing: A Model for the War on Terror? Crimes of War Project, December 15, 2006

Saddam's Trial: Questions of Justice, OpenDemocracy, November 20, 2006

"The Laws of War in the Age of Asymmetric Conflict", in The Barbarisation of Conflict, edited by George Kassimeris (Hurst, 2006)

"Chastened Hegemon", Prospect, May 2006