Guide to Specialists

Pierre Hazan
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 2005 – July 2006

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Project Focus
A Framework for Evaluating Transitional Justice

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Languages: French

Pierre Hazan comes to USIP from a fellowship at Harvard Law School. He is the UN correspondent in Geneva for the French newspaper Libération and the Swiss daily Le Temps, positions he has held since 1992. In this position, he has covered many international crises including those in Afghanistan, the Balkans, the Great Lakes region of Africa, the Ingushetia–Chechen border, the Middle East, Somalia, and the Sudan. Hazan is also an academic researcher for the Swiss National Scientific Foundation on International Criminal Justice at Geneva University (2003–present).

He has produced four television documentaries with the Franco-German channel ARTE and Swiss Public Broadcasting TV; these documentaries explored such subjects as the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (Rwanda: Justice Taken Hostage, 2003) and universal jurisdiction (The Hunt for Dictators, nominated for the Pierre-Alain Donnier prize for TV documentary at the 18th North–South Film Festival, 2001). Hazan is also one of the founding members of the International Film Festival on Human Rights in Geneva, for which he was a special adviser in 2003 and 2004. He has also organized international conferences on “International Justice, A Reality Check” (Geneva, 2001) and “Reparations: Reconciliation or Political Confrontation?” (Geneva, 2002) in collaboration with UNESCO.

Hazan holds a master’s in strategic studies from Aberdeen University (UK).

Available on usip.org:

• A Framework for Evaluating Transitional Justice
  Senior Fellow Project Report Summary, June 1, 2006

Publications:

• Morocco: Betting on a Truth and Reconciliation Commission
  Special Report, July 2006
• Justice in a Time of War, The True Story Behind the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia (2004).
• Victim's Guide to the International Criminal Court, in English, Spanish, and French (June 2003).
• Le Mal Suisse, The Swiss Malaise, in French (1998).