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Staff Profile: Anthony Dworkin

Recent Commentary

• Assessing the EU’s new human rights strategy
  27 Jun 12
• Obama’s Drone Attacks: How the EU Should Respond
  19 Jun 12
• Bin Laden’s Death – The End of the Global War on Terror?
  03 May 11
• Scoring Europe's Southern neighbourhood
  01 Apr 11
• Don't abandon Tunisia
  25 Feb 11

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Recent Blogs

• A conversation with Egypt’s new planning minister
  08 May 13
• Does Obama’s latest promise on Guantanamo mean anything?
  02 May 13
• An Assassination in Tunisia
  07 Feb 13
• Pluralism & Democracy in the MENA region
  04 Feb 13
• The European Union is getting stronger on Egypt
  04 Feb 11

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recent press

• EU Inside
  15 Jan 13
• Postimees
  07 Jan 13
• To Vima
  18 Dec 12
• PenzaNews
  14 Nov 12

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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.

Contact: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), Mob: +44 78 7963 6701

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