About the Author

Alexander Mayer-Rieckh manages the ICTJ's Security System Reform Program and heads its office in Geneva. Formerly the chief of the Human Rights Office of the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, he has worked for the UN in Rwanda, Ethiopia and Eritrea, and Timor Leste, and has published articles on post-conflict institutional reform and peacebuilding. Pablo de Greiff is director of research at the ICTJ. Formerly associate professor of philosophy at SUNY Buffalo and Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University, he is the editor of seven books, most recently The Handbook of Reparations.