Tarek Maassarani's Page

What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?

It is essential to our growth and potential as a global community and as individuals.

Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)

I am currently program director of a small non-profit legal clinic and mediation center in southwest DC. I am also adjunct professor teaching peacebuilding and human rights at the George Washinton University Elliot School. I was recently a practicing attorney with the international human rights litigation team of Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, which pursues high-profile cases on behalf of victims of human rights abuses in such countries as Nigeria, Iraq, Colombia, and Indonesia. Prior to this, I practiced poverty law at a DC legal services organization and led an extensive investigation into the suppression of information amongst government research agencies, which resulted in several reports and testimony before a congressional committee.

I come from a multi-cultural background, and have lived in Africa and the Middle East, working on peace-building, community development, HIV/AIDS and environmental education, and documentary film-making projects. I am also a trained and practicing peace educator and community mediator in the DC area.

Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise

Israel/Palestine, USA

What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?

USA

What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?

International Human Rights Fellow at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll

Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?

Alternative Dispute Resolution, Conflict Resolution, Human Rights

Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?

Advocacy, Curriculum Development

If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications

Speaking Truth to Power: A Corporate Whistleblower Survival Guide (lead author), Government Accountability Project (GAP) (forthcoming Summer 2009)

Freedom to Speak? Report Card on Federal Agency Media Policies (co-author), Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) (Oct. 2008)
Running the Gauntlet: The Campaign for Credible Corporate Whistleblower Rights (co-author), GAP (September 2008)

Getting Human Rights Right (co-author), STANFORD SOCIAL INNOVATION REVIEW (Winter 2008)

Redacting the Science of Climate Change: An Investigative and Synthesis Report, published by GAP and testified to before the U.S. House Science Oversight Subcommittee (March 2007)

Atmosphere of Pressure (co-author), joint investigative report by GAP and UCS (February 2007)

Extracting Corporate Responsibility: Towards a Human Rights Impact Assessment (lead author), 40 CORNELL INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 1 (Winter 2007), presented at the Aim for Human Rights Conference on Human Rights Impact Assessment (as a keynote), November 29 and 30, 2007; the University of Colorado Graduate School of International Studies Center for
Rights Development Spring Symposium, April 7, 2006; and the YALE JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Fourth Annual Young Scholars conference, March 4, 2006

Four Counts of Corporate Complicity: Alternative Forms of Accomplice Liability under ATCA, 38 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLITICS 1&2 (Fall & Winter 2005-06)

WTO-GATT, Economic Growth, and the Human Rights Trade-Off, 28 ENVIRONS LAW AND POLICY JOURNAL 2 (Spring 2005)

Gendered Occupation and Resistance in Palestine (lead author), 19 MIDDLE EASTERN WOMEN’S STUDIES REVIEW 1&2 (2004)