Footprints to Freedom: Journeys of State-Driven Torture, Liberation and Justice
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2010-12-01
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EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
Christine Gervais is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Ottawa. She obtained her Ph.D. in Sociology at Carleton University. Her teaching and research areas include children’s and women’s human rights, crimes against humanity, international development and education in Latin America, social justice, peace building, human trafficking, as well as women’s rights and roles in religious institutions. She has contributed to educational programming for children, youth and adults in prisons in Bolivia, Canada, Honduras and Nicaragua. She is a member of both the Laboratory for Justice Studies and Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Rights of the Child in the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa.
Maritza Felices-Luna is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at the University of Ottawa. She came to Canada from Peru to study Criminology at Université de Montréal where she conducted her master’s and doctoral research on internal armed conflict. Her research and teaching areas of interest are political violence, armed conflict and qualitative methodology. She has conducted extensive qualitative fieldwork in Peru, Belfast and Lubumbashi (Democratic Republic of Congo). She is a member of the Laboratory for Justice Studies and Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa.