Dr Leslie Vinjamuri
BA (Wesleyan), MSc (Econ), PhD (Columbia)
Overview
- Name:
- Dr Leslie Vinjamuri
- Email address:
- lv@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4758
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 213
- Office Hours:
- 3-5pm Mondays
Biography
Leslie Vinjamuri is Co-director of the Centre for the International Politics of Conflict, Rights and Justice and a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. She founded and Co-Chairs the London Transitional Justice Network. Prior to joining SOAS, Leslie was on the faculty of the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and worked at the United States Agency for International Development, and Congressional Research Service. She has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics, and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. Leslie is the author of several articles and a contributor to many edited volumes on the international politics of conflict, norms, and rights related topics. Her publications have appeared in journals such as International Security, Ethics and International Affairs, Survival, the International Journal of Transitional Justice and the Annual Review of Political Science. Her current research projects include the politics and impact of international criminal justice and accountability, competition and change in the international humanitarian market, and the role of transitional justice in democratic transitions, religion and human rights, and UN Security Council Diplomacy. She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Transitional Justice and a member of the Advisory Group of the Institute for Integrated Transitions. She is also an Associate of the Human Rights Consortium at the School of Advanced Study and a Research Associate at IDEAS at the London School of Economics. She has a BA from Wesleyan University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Leslie Vinjamuri on the ICC and Conflict Zones: Peace v. Justice: The ICC and its Alternatives: http://www.opencanada.org/features/leslie-vinjamuri/
Teaching
Programmes Convened
Courses Taught
- Conflict, rights and justice
- General Diplomatic Studies & Practice
- The international organisation of world politics
PhD Students supervised
- Julie Broome, The impact of international and domestic prosecutions in post-conflict or post-authoritarian countries on the establishment of the rule of law
Dr Leslie Vinjamuri is the Convenor of General Diplomatic Studies and Practice at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
Research
Politics and impact of international criminal justice and accountability
The politics of transitional justice in the Middle East and North Africa
Human rights advocacy and religion in transitional states
Secular and faith-based Humanitarian NGOs
International Organisation (especially UN Security Council Diplomacy)
Publications
Book Chapters
Hopgood, Stephen and Vinjamuri, Leslie (2012) 'Faith in Markets.' In: Barnett, Michael and Stein, Janice, (eds.), Sacred Aid: Faith and Humanitarianism. Oxford University Press.
Snyder, Jack L. and Vinjamuri, Leslie (2008) 'Preconditions of international normative change: implications for order and violence.' In: Kalyvas, Stathis N. and Shapiro, Ian and Masoud, Tarek, (eds.), Order, conflict, and violence. Cambridge University Press.
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Boesenecker, Aaron (2008) 'Religious Actors in Transitional Justice.' In: Banchoff, Thomas, (ed.), The New Religious Pluralism. Oxford University Press.
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Snyder, Jack (2008) 'Unipolar empire and principled multilateralism as strategies for international change.' In: Bourantonis, Dimitris and Ifantis, Kostas and Tsakonas, Panayotis, (eds.), Multilateralism and Security Institutions in an Era of Globalization. London: Routledge Press.
Articles
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Snyder, Jack (2012) 'Principled pragmatism and the logic of consequences.' International Theory, 4 (3). pp. 434-448.
Vinjamuri, Leslie (2012) '"Review Symposium of Kathryn Sikkink's The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics".' Journal of Human Rights, 11 (2).
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Boesenecker, Aaron (2011) 'Lost in Translation? Civil Society and the Negotiation of International Norms.' International Journal of Transitional Justice (Special Issue on Civil Society) .
Vinjamuri, Leslie (2011) 'A Review of International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans.' Journal of Human Rights, 10 (3). pp. 427-431.
Vinjamuri, Leslie (2010) 'Deterrence, Democracy, and the Pursuit of International Justice During Conflict.' Ethics and International Affairs, 24 (2). pp. 191-211.
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Snyder, J. (2004) 'Advocacy and Scholarship in the Study of Transitional Justice and International War Crimes Tribunals.' Annual Review of Political Science, 7 (1). pp. 345-362.
Vinjamuri, Leslie (2003) 'Order and Justice in Iraq.' Survival, 45 (4). pp. 135-52.
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Snyder, Jack (2003) 'Trials and Errors: Principles and Pragmatism in Strategies of International Justice.' International Security, 28 (3). pp. 5-44.
Sieff, Michelle and Vinjamuri, Leslie (2002) 'Prosecuting War Criminals: An Argument for Decentralization.' Conflict, Security and Development, 2 (2). pp. 103-113.
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Sieff, Michelle (1999) 'Reconciling Order and Justice? New Institutional Solutions in Post-Conflict States.' Journal of International Affairs, Special Edition on International Institutions and Justice, 52 (2). pp. 757-782.
Book Reviews
Vinjamuri, Leslie (2012) 'Review of 'Humanity's Law' by Ruti G. Teitel.' International Affairs, 88 (3). pp. 628-629.
Vinjamuri, Leslie (2000) 'Review of Howard Ball, 'Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide: The Twentieth Century Experience' (University Press of Kansas, 1999).' Political Science Quarterly, 115 (2). pp. 303-305.
Audios
Vinjamuri, Leslie (2009) Radio Interview with Dr Vinjamuri: Judging the International Criminal Court: Bringing War Criminals to Justice, April 2009. America Abroad Media. [Audio]
Other
Vinjamuri, Leslie (2013) 'Is the International Criminal Court follow the flag in Mali?' Political Violence @ a Glance.
Vinjamuri, Leslie (2012) 'Peace versus Justice and its Alternatives: The ICC and Conflict Zones.' Canadian International Council.
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Boesenecker, Aaron (2011) 'Religious Actors and Transitional Justice.' In: Global civil society yearbook 2010: global justice and civil society. Sage.
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Snyder, Jack (2011) 'ICC Sheriff too quick on the Draw.' Duck of Minerva Blog .
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Boesenecker, Aaron (2007) 'Peace Agreements and Accountability: mapping trends from 1980 to 2006.' Geneva, Switzerland: Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue.
Vinjamuri, Leslie and Snyder, Jack (2006) 'A midwife for peace.' The International Herald Tribune 27 Sep 2006.
Vinjamuri, Leslie 'War and Justice and accountability since 1945 [Database].' CISD-SOAS.
