Leslie Vinjamuri

Dr. Leslie Vinjamuri is Convenor of General Diplomatic Studies and Practice at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy and a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Politics and International Studies.

Dr. Vinjamuri's research includes projects on the role of Justice and Accountability in War and Peace Negotiations, Faith-Based Humanitarianism, Secularism and Religion in Transitional Justice, and the effects of Counterterrorism in Democracies. Dr. Vinjamuri speaks and writes widely on the politics of transitional justice. She has delivered presentations at Wilton Park, Chatham House, the LSE, OSI, Oxford University, the Social Science Research Council, the German Marshall Fund's Transatlantic Program, and at numerous conferences and workshops in the United States, Europe, and Africa. Dr. Vinjamuri has served as a consultant to the Ford Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the International Law Institute, and the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue. Currently, she holds a research grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation for a project that looks at strategies for addressing the problem of accountability during war and postconflict reconstruction. As part of this research, she is completing a manuscript, Justice, Accountability, and War Since 1945.

Prior to joining SOAS, Dr. Vinjamuri was on the Faculty of the School of Foreign Service and Department of Government at Georgetown University. She has previously held visiting fellowships at Harvard University's John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, and at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, and the Centre for International Studies of the London School of Economics. In addition to this, her research has been supported by the Smith Richardson Foundation, the Institute for the Study of World Politics, the Eisenhower Institute, the Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, and Georgetown University. Dr. Vinjamuri previous worked at Congressional Research Service and at the U.S. Agency for International Development. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Links to podcasts

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Judging the International Criminal Court: Bringing War Criminals to Justice, April 2009

Selected Publications

"Duty, Democracy, and Deterrence in the Pursuit of International Justice" (Forthcoming, Ethics and International Affairs 2010)

Leslie Vinjamuri and Aaron Boesenecker. 'Religious Actors in Transitional Justice',The New Religious Pluralism, Thomas Banchoff (ed) (Oxford University Press, 2008)

Jack Snyder and Leslie Vinjamuri, 'Unipolar empire and principled multilateralism as strategies for international change', in Multilateralism and Security Institutions in an Era of Globalization (Routledge Press, 2008)

Jack Snyder and Leslie Vinjamuri, 'Preconditions of International Normative Change: Implications for Order and Violence', Order, Conflict, and Violence, Kalyvas, Masoud, and Shapiro (eds) (Cambridge University Press, 2008)

Leslie Vinjamuri and Aaron Boesenecker, "Peace Agreements and Accountability Since 1980" (Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007)

Jack Snyder and Leslie Vinjamuri, 'A midwife for peace', International Herald Tribune 27 September 2006

"Advocacy and Scholarship in the study of Transitional Justice and International War Crimes Tribunals" (with Jack Snyder), Annual Review of Political Science, 2004.

"Trials and Errors: Principles and Pragmatism in Strategies of International Justice" (with Jack Snyder), International Security, Winter 2003/2004

"Order and Justice in Postwar Iraq", Survival, Winter 2003

"Prosecuting War Criminals: An Argument for Decentralization" (with Michelle Sieff), Conflict, Security and Development, Fall 2002

Book Review of Howard Ball, Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide: The Twentieth Century Experience (University Press of Kansas, 1999) in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 115, Number 2, Summer 2000

"Reconciling Order and Justice? New Institutional Solutions in Post-Conflict States" (with Michelle Sieff). Journal of International Affairs, Special Edition on International Institutions and Justice, spring 1999, 52, no.2

Professional Memberships and Service

Academic Advisory Board, America Abroad Media, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), Associate of the Human Rights Consortium, Associate Fellow of the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, Women in International Security (WIIS), American Political Science Association (APSA), International Studies Association (ISA), British International Studies Association (BISA), Editorial Board of the International Journal of Transitional Justice, Editorial Board of the SSRN-Transitional Justice.

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Email: lv@soas.ac.uk

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