Rimona Afana is a Romanian–Palestinian researcher, lecturer, activist, and multimedia artist working on war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against nature, and crimes against nonhuman animals.
Shamikh Badra is a PhD candidate at the University of Wollongong, researching Palestinian Diplomatic Resistance: A Political-Historical Study. He holds a Master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Sydney. His academic work examines the history of Palestinian resistance, diplomacy, and political movements, focusing on Indigenous responses to settler colonialism and their interaction with global solidarity networks. Badra has contributed to significant publications, including the chapter “Palestine: Restricted Movement under Blockade Conditions” in State Responses to COVID-19: A Global Snapshot, which explores how the pandemic exacerbated existing conditions under Israeli occupation.
His analysis, “Labor Denies Its Own Foreign Policy by Refusing to Condemn Atrocities in Gaza”, was published in Green Left Weekly (November 2023), critiquing Australian foreign policy toward Gaza. Several of his articles have also been translated into Arabic and published in local Palestinian media, including Donia Al-Watan. His theoretical framework for nonviolent resistance, outlined in the article “The Future of Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine”, inspired youth-led initiatives in Gaza. These efforts culminated in the Great March of Return, a series of nonviolent protests beginning in 2018. In 2015, Badra’s reconciliation initiative was the focus of a major conference in Gaza, which urged the Palestinian parties to acknowledge and apologize for the harm caused by their division, marking a significant step toward national unity. Badra has participated in international conferences on peacebuilding, settler colonialism, and Indigenous rights, bridging academic theory and activism. His work emphasizes the importance of empowering local communities and fostering global solidarity to achieve justice and self-determination. Badra’s contributions underscore the transformative potential of nonviolent resistance as a strategy for achieving justice within the context of ongoing settler colonialism in Palestine.
Natalie Hodgson is an Assistant Professor in Law at the University of Nottingham, Head of the Forced Migration Unit in the Human Rights Law Centre, and a Visiting Fellow at the Kaldor Centre for International Refugee Law, Faculty of Law and Justice, University of New South Wales. Natalie’s research interests include how law is used to challenge and resist state crime.
Samira Homerang Saunders is a researcher at the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice at Queen Mary University of London. She holds a BA degree in Peace and Conflict Studies, and a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Politics. She was a co-organiser of the 53rd session of the Permanent People’s Tribunal on State and Environmental Violence in West Papua. She is also the co-founder of Archive Ples, a project which aims to dismantle the afterlives of colonialism in Papua New Guinea and to renegotiate the prevalent visual narratives of the island through archival photographs.
Paul Kinyua is currently working as a Senior Legal Researcher at the Environment and Land Court in the Judiciary in Kenya and was admitted to the bar in Kenya in April, 2007. He holds a Master of Laws (LLM) degree in International Trade Law from Stellenbosch University, South Africa (2009); and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB-Honours) degree from Moi University, Kenya (2004). Between May 2012 and February 2018, he served as a lecturer at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa where he taught the following course units: “International Economic Law; Socio-Economic Rights” and “International Trade Law”. His work has appeared in the New Journal of European Criminal Law (NJECL) on diverse subjects such as: globalization and crime; victimology; and, civil asset forfeiture. Paul also published a book chapter titled: “‘The Developmental State’ in Africa: A Case-Study of Kenya and South Africa” (2016). Current research interests include: the political economy of Africa; the foundations of global inequality; and, reforming the international taxation framework.
Kristian Lasslett is Professor of Criminology at Ulster University. He also sits on the Executive Board of the International State Crime Initiative, is joint Editor-in-Chief of the State Crime Journal and Co-Director of UzInvestigations. He has published two books, State Crime on the Margins of Empire (Pluto Press 2014) and Uncovering the Crimes of Urbanisation (Routledge 2018). Kristian’s investigative work has featured in The Guardian, BBC, Open Democracy, Radio Free Europe, Tages-Anzeiger, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and Al Jazeera.
Robert Phillipson worked for the British Council in Algeria, Yugoslavia, and London, before emigrating to Denmark in 1973. Among his books are Linguistic Imperialism (Oxford University Press 1992), English-Only Europe? Challenging Language Policy (Routledge 2003), Handbook of Linguistic Human Rights (edited with Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Wiley-Blackwell 2022). He has lectured in over 40 countries, and given postgraduate courses on language policy and language rights in India and Shanghai. He was awarded the UNESCO Linguapax Prize in 2010, and the TESOL International President’s award in 2024. For publications and CV see www.cbs.dk/en/staff/rpmsc.
Scott Poynting is Adjunct Professor at the Queensland University of Technology and Charles Sturt University.
Angela Sherwood is Lecturer in Climate Justice at Queen Mary University of London, and co-director of the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Refugee Studies and in several edited volumes on themes of state crime, displacement, and international migration.
David Whyte is Professor of Climate Justice in the School of Law, Queen Mary University of London, where he is Director of the Centre for Climate Crime and Climate Justice. His research explores the relationship between capitalism, law and corporate power, with a particular interest in climate and environmental breakdown. His books include Corporate Human Rights Violations: Global Prospects for Legal Action (with Stephanie Khoury, Routledge 2017) and Ecocide: kill the corporation before it kills us (Manchester University Press 2021). He has written for The Guardian, The Independent, The Age and The Herald. His latest publication is Working for Climate Justice: Trade Unions in the Front Line against Climate Change (with Ben Crawford, Institute of Employment Rights 2023).