Special Focus: Reparations, Turkey, Canada

Virginie Ladisch holds an MA from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and a BA in Political Science from Haverford College. In 2000, Virginie was awarded a year-long Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for independent research, during which she studied truth commissions and reconciliation in South Africa and Guatemala. Over the course of the next three years, she continued to carry out extensive in-country interviews and focus groups in Guatemala as the research assistant for a forthcoming book about transitional justice in Guatemala by Anita Isaacs, PhD, Professor of Political Science, Haverford College. In addition to her fieldwork, Virginie was the Project Coordinator at the Crimes of War Education Project, has served as an election monitor in Guatemala, and has conducted research on reconciliation in Cyprus. The results of her research on the challenges of peacebuilding in Cyprus have been published in the Journal of Public and International Affairs and the Cyprus Review.