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Daniel Rothenberg
CitizenshipUnited States of America
EducationBrown University, University of Chicago
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Irvine, University of Michigan, Yale Law School, DePaul University, Arizona State University

Daniel Rothenberg is a Professor of Practice at the School of Politics and Global Studies and co-director with Peter Bergen of the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University.[1][2] He is also a senior fellow at New America.[3]

Rothenberg studies terrorism, human rights and transitional justice and has worked with human rights projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Central Africa and Latin America. He has helped to collect and analyze first-person narratives from thousands of people affected by war and violence, including torture and rape.[4][5] Rothenberg examines the lived experience of moral injury, using this as a framework for addressing the ethical and emotional impacts of intense and systematic political violence on both individuals and society.[6][2]

Rothenberg was instrumental in developing The Chicago principles on post-conflict justice (2007). He has also published With these hands : the hidden world of migrant farmworkers today (1998), Testimonies : Iraq History Project (2007), Memory of silence : the Guatemalan Truth Commission Report (2012) and Drone wars : transforming conflict, law, and policy (2014).

Early life and education

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Rothenberg earned his B.A. at Brown University[3] and studied sociocultural anthropology at the University of Chicago for his Ph.D.[7] His dissertation, The Panic of the Robaniños: Gringo Organ Stealers, Narratives of Mistrust, and the Guatemalan Political Imagination,[8] addresses the ways in which uncertainties and anxieties in Guatemala in the 1990s coalesced around unsubstantiated narratives of child abduction and organ-stealing.[9]

Career

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Rothenberg worked with farm workers as a federally funded outreach worker and paralegal. He collected over 250 interviews with people throughout the United States and Mexico, forming the basis for his book, With these hands : the hidden world of migrant farmworkers today (1998).[10][11]

Rothenberg was a visiting professor in the Criminology, Law and Society Program at the University of California, Irvine in 1998-1999,[7][12] and a professor in Anthropology at the University of Michigan from 1999-2002.[13][12] He was a Senior Fellow at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School from 2002-2003.[14][12]

Rothenberg held multiple positions including Director of the Jeanne and Joseph Sullivan Program for Human Rights in the Americas and Managing Director of International Projects at the International Human Rights Law Institute (IHRLI) at DePaul University College of Law between 2003 and 2010.[15][16][12] While at DePaul, Rothenberg has been involved in projects focusing on human rights and the rule of law in areas such as Latin America, Afghanistan and Iraq.[17][18] He directed the Current Violations in Iraq Project, in which Iraqi interviewers and analysts collected testimony relating to human rights violations in Iraq. These became the basis of the book Testimonies (2007).[19][20]

In 2010 Rothenberg became the founding executive director of the Center for Law and Global Affairs in the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.[17][21]

Research

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External videos
video icon What are the Laws of War?, Daniel Rothenberg, April 7, 2021
video icon “What Is Post-Conflict Justice?”, Daniel Rothenberg, 2009
video icon “Human Trafficking”, Interview with Daniel Rothenberg, March 31, 2011

Rothenberg has designed and managed rule of law and human rights projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Central Africa and throughout Latin America. In Iraq, this involved training local interviewers and human rights workers.[22] Rothenberg's work addresses issues of gender, including the use of rape as a weapon of war[23][4] and human trafficking.[24][25][26] From his own experiences as an interviewer, dealing with extremely graphic and distressing testimony including murder, torture and rape, Rothenberg has developed personal guidelines for interviewing:[4]

'Start with an open question: Tell me about your experience. Look them in the eye. Don't look at your notepad. If they say, "No, I don't want to talk," then leave. If they say, "Yes," and tell you horrible things, wipe the emotion from your face. Get over being surprised they would tell a stranger, you, such intimate violations. Know they are telling you because they need to tell someone, for whatever reason. And bearing that in mind, make no promises... Tell them that you can only listen, and do only that.' Daniel Rothenberg, 2011.[4]

Rothenberg sees the documentation and analysis of human rights violations through projects, like the Current Violations in Iraq Project, as an essential step toward transitional justice and the addressing of human rights abuses. The International Human Rights Law Institute is a non-governmental organization (NGO). It plays an important role in documenting humanitarian crises, but it is not a formal truth commission and does not have the authority to enact policy reforms or reconciliation.[27]

Rothenberg is concerned with the lived experience of moral injury, using this as a framework for addressing the ethical and emotional impacts of intense and systematic political violence on both individuals and society.[6][2] He seeks to identify human rights indicators, measurable rubrics for the analysis and comparison of conditions in different countries. Such indicators could also be used to measure changes over time and the impact of interventions.[28]

Awards and honors

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  • 1999-2001, Michigan Society of Fellows[7]

Books

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  • Bergen, Peter L.; Rothenberg, Daniel, eds. (2014). Drone wars : transforming conflict, law, and policy. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-66338-1.[29][30][31]
  • Rothenberg, Daniel, ed. (2012). Memory of silence : the Guatemalan Truth Commission Report (1st ed.). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230340244.[32]
  • Bassiouni, M. Cherif; Rothenberg, Daniel; Hanna, Michael; Higonnet, Etelle, eds. (2007). The Chicago principles on post-conflict justice. Chicago, Illinois: International Human Rights Law Institute. ISBN 9781889001159.[33][34][35]
  • Rothenberg, Daniel, ed. (2007). Testimonies : Iraq History Project (PDF). Chicago, Illinois: International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University. College of Law. ISBN 978-1-889001-16-6.
  • Rothenberg, Daniel (1998). With these hands : the hidden world of migrant farmworkers today. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co. ISBN 9780151002054.[36][37][38]

References

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  1. ^ "People". Center on the Future of War. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Sommer, Constance (18 July 2022). "The lasting anguish of moral injury". Knowable Magazine. doi:10.1146/knowable-071522-2. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  3. ^ a b "Daniel Rothenberg". search.asu.edu. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  4. ^ a b c d Fantz, Ashley (June 24, 2011). "Rape in wartime: Listening to the victims". CNN. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Daniel Rothenberg". Arizona State University. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  6. ^ a b Rothenberg, Daniel (2022). "Moral Injury and the Lived Experience of Political Violence". Ethics & International Affairs. 36 (1): 15–25. doi:10.1017/S0892679422000028. ISSN 0892-6794. S2CID 247328094.
  7. ^ a b c "Michigan Society of Fellows selects five new members for inerdisciplinary work". The University Record. University of Michigan. April 19, 1999. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  8. ^ Rothenberg, Daniel Marc (2017). The Panic of the Robaniños: Gringo Organ Stealers, Narratives of Mistrust, and the Guatemalan Political Imagination (Thesis). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago.
  9. ^ Way, John T. (2021). Agrotropolis : youth, street, and nation in the new urban Guatemala. Oakland, California: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520291850. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  10. ^ "Review - With these hands". Kirkus Reviews. 15 August 1998 [Published online 20 May 2010].
  11. ^ Plec, Emily (21 January 2007). "The rhetoric of migrant farmworkers". In DeGenaro, William (ed.). Who Says?: Working-Class Rhetoric, Class Consciousness, and Community. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-7310-2. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  12. ^ a b c d "Daniel Rothenberg". Arizona State University. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  13. ^ Rothenberg, Daniel (October 2000). With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22734-7. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  14. ^ Rothenberg, Daniel, ed. (2012). Memory of Silence. Springer. doi:10.1057/9781137011145. ISBN 978-0-230-34024-4. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  15. ^ "Latin America and the Caribbean | Projects". College of Law, DePaul University. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  16. ^ "Daniel Rothenberg Archives". Nieman Reports. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  17. ^ a b Magruder, Jane (29 June 2010). "Global human rights scholar to join College of Law". ASU News. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  18. ^ "DePaul Helps Mexican Indigenous Communities Defend Their Rights". DePaul Newsroom Archives. April 19, 2005. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  19. ^ Rothenberg, Daniel (1 February 2009). "God Is My Shelter". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  20. ^ Allam, Hannah; Razzaq al-Saiedi, Abdul; Rothenberg, Daniel (15 December 2009). "Reporting the Iraq War: Whose Truth Is Being Told?". Nieman Foundation.
  21. ^ "Daniel Rothenberg". New America. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  22. ^ "DePaul's International Human Rights Law Institute Awarded $1.8 Million To Document Past Atrocities And Provide Training In Iraq". DePaul Newsroom Archives. May 31, 2005. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  23. ^ Hearing: Rape as a Weapon of War: Accountability for Sexual Violence in Conflict. Washington, DC: United States Congress Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Human Rights and the Law, One Hundred Tenth Congress, Second Session. 1 April 2008. pp. 123–124. ISBN 978-0-16-082119-6.
  24. ^ Mont, Joe (June 16, 2014). "Human Trafficking Prevention Disclosures May Be in the Offing". Compliance Week. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  25. ^ Hilton, Elise (3 June 2014). "Fortune 100 Companies Begin To Tackle Human Trafficking". Acton Institute PowerBlog. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  26. ^ Bassiouni, Cherif; Rothenberg, Daniel; Higonnet, Ethel; Farenga, Cynthia; Invictus, Augustus Sol (2010). "Addressing International Human Trafficking in Women and Children for Commercial Sexual Exploitation in the 21st century". Revue internationale de droit pénal. 81 (3): 417. doi:10.3917/ridp.813.0417.
  27. ^ Parameswaran, Prashanth (March 23, 2009). "Documenting Violations Key to Transitional Justice in Iraq, Rothenberg Says". University of Virginia School of Law. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  28. ^ Simons, Ted (August 26, 2010). "ASU Human Rights Scholar". Arizona PBS. Retrieved 3 August 2022.
  29. ^ Boyle, Michael J. (January 2016). "Drone wars: transforming conflict, law, and policy. Edited by Peter L. Bergen and Daniel Rothenberg; Drone theory. By Grégoire Chamayou". International Affairs. 92 (1): 210–211. doi:10.1111/1468-2346.12521. ISSN 0020-5850. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  30. ^ Crawford, Neta C. (March 2016). "Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law and Policy. Edited by Peter L. Bergen and Daniel Rothenberg. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 496p. 34.99 paper". Perspectives on Politics. 14 (1): 263–265. doi:10.1017/S1537592715004120. ISSN 1537-5927. S2CID 147313560. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  31. ^ Walsh, James I. (August 2015). "Review of Bergen, Peter L.; Rothenberg, Daniel, Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, And Policy". H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews. H-Diplo, H-Review. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  32. ^ Bellino, Michelle J. (30 June 2017). Youth in Postwar Guatemala: Education and Civic Identity in Transition. Camden, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-8802-5.
  33. ^ Ottley, Bruce L.; Kleinhaus, Theresa (2010). "Confronting the past: The elusive search for post-conflict justice". Irish Jurist. 45: 107–145. ISSN 0021-1273. JSTOR 44027114.
  34. ^ "The Chicago Principles on Post-Conflict Justice (2001 - 2008)". Chicago: College of Law, DePaul University. Retrieved 24 December 2022.
  35. ^ Matwijkiw, Anja (2007). "The reverse revenge norm in international law". Revue internationale de droit penal. 78 (3): 565–599. doi:10.3917/ridp.783.0565. ISSN 0223-5404. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  36. ^ Dawson, Gloria (2014). "The Hands that Feed Us". Gastronomica. 14 (2): 95–97. doi:10.1525/gfc.2014.14.2.95. ISSN 1529-3262. JSTOR 10.1525/gfc.2014.14.2.95. S2CID 146181868. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  37. ^ "With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today by Daniel Rothenberg". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  38. ^ Kusnet, David (November 1, 1998). "Bitter Harvest". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
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