Pablo de Greiff | |
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| Education | PhD,Northwestern University, 1993 |
| Alma mater | Yale University, BA, 1986 |
| Occupation | Political activist, university teacher  |
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| Works | Transitional Justice Program and the Prevention Project,School of Law,New York University, 2014–pres. |
| Office | Member,Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine, 2022–present |
Pablo de Greiff (born June 20, 1963) is aColombian academic and human rights activist, who served as the firstUnited NationsSpecial Rapporteur on the promotion oftruth, justice,reparation andguarantees of non-recurrence.[3]
In January 2015 he was also asked to be part of UNIIB, a United Nations mission of Independent Experts to address the situation in Burundi. From 2019 to 2020 he was part of a group of experts advising theUN Human Rights Council on its preventive functions. In April 2022 he was appointed as one of the three commissioners in theIndependent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine established by theUNHRC.[4] Since 2014 he is a Senior Fellow at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice of the School of Law atNew York University, where he directs both the Transitional Justice Program and the Prevention Project.
Born inBogotá on 20 June 1963, de Greiff graduated fromYale University in 1986, and completed his PhD atNorthwestern University in 1993.
De Greiff was assistant professor of philosophy in theState University of New York from 1992 to 2002, and associate professor there in 2000–2003. He was aLaurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Human Values,Princeton University, in 2000–2001.[5] In 2001 he joined theInternational Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), a human rightsINGO based inNew York City, becoming its director of research.
While at the ICTJ de Greiff provided advice ontransitional justice to theWorld Bank, other UN agencies, governments,truth and reconciliation commissions and other bodies, including the National Reparations Commission (Comisión Nacional de Resarcimiento) inGuatemala, the Colombian National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation (Comisión Nacional de Reparación y Reconciliación), theEquity and Reconciliation Commission inMorocco and theTruth and Reconciliation Commission (Peru). He has also worked in thePhilippines andPalestine, and has prepared for the UNOffice of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Rule of Law Tools for Post-Conflict States on Reparations Programmes, as well as advising OHCHR projects onreparations,Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, andeconomic, social and cultural rights in post-conflict situations.[3] He is widely considered as one of the intellectual shapers of the field of transitional justice.
In 2011 the UNHuman Rights Council established a mandate for a Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantee of non-recurrence.[6] De Greiff was one of 15 applicants for the three-year part-time post,[7] and was one of three shortlisted.[8] De Greiff's selection was announced at the conclusion of the 19th HRC session on 23 March 2012.[9]As Special Rapporteur he presented thematic reports to the Human Rights Council and to the General Assembly. Additionally, he presented country visit reports on Tunisia, Spain, Uruguay, Burundi and the United Kingdom (specifically on Northern Ireland), and Sri Lanka.[a] He also benefited from the support of theNew York University which received to this end a grant from theOpen Society Foundations.[10]
De Greiff has lectured at Yale,Harvard,Columbia,Cornell, NYU, the European University Institute and other universities across Europe and Latin America. He has edited 10 books on justice and human rights and many articles on transitions to democracy, democratic theory, and the relationship between morality, politics, and law. A member of the board of editors of theInternational Journal of Transitional Justice, he holds dual Colombian and US citizenship.[3][5]