Research associate
Chowra Makaremi
Principal investigator (PI)
Natalia Pashkeeva
Postdoctoral researcher
Yasmin Nadir
Postdoctoral researcher
Pardis Shafafi
Research associate
Omid Montazeri
Research associate
Bahar Majdzadeh
Research associate
Shokoufeh Sakhi
Research associate
Leila Ghalebani
Research associate
Arpita Das
Publishing advisor
Marie Ladier-Fouladi
Member of the scientific committee
Shahla Talebi
Member of the scientific committee
Kamran Matin
Member of the scientific committee
Florence Clavaud
Member of the scientific committee
Estelle Car
Project coordinator
Dr Pardis Shafafi is an anthropologist specialising in political violence, legal anthropology and peoples´ tribunals, having completed her doctoral degree from the University of St Andrews in 2015 on these and other related themes. She has special expertise and interest on enduring victim-survivor pursuits for accountability and justice in contexts of impunity for powerful perpetuators. Dr Shafafi is the co-editor of the 2015 ‘States of impunity’ series for OpenDemocracy and co-editor and contributor to the 2019 special edition ’The Ethnography of Peoples’ Tribunals’ for PoLAR journal. She is currently researching and writing on state practices of ‘enforced forgetting’ in the wake of systematic violence. She acts as an elected convenor of the European Association of Anthropologists’ Applied Anthropology Network, alongside her role as senior researcher at Designit Oslo.
« Desire for Justice, Desire for Law: An Ethnography of Peoples’ Tribunals » – Symposium edited by Chowra Makaremi and Pardis Shafafi in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review in N°42 Issue 2 – November 2019
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