Meet and Greet with Dr. Ioana Cismas

Thursday, February 23, 2023
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. EST
Location: Berkley Center Third Floor Conference Room Map

Interested in the role of religious leaders in generating respect for humanitarian law and human rights in armed conflict? Join us for a Meet and Greet with Dr. Ioana Cismas, co-director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights and a reader at the York Law School. An international law scholar, Cismas shared about her work researching and providing legal and policy advice in public international law, human rights law, international humanitarian law, law and religion, and transitional justice.

Cismas leads the funded research Generating Respect for Humanitarian Norms: The Influence of Religious Leaders on Parties to Armed Conflict (Generating Respect Project) and is currently a distinguished fellow with Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute. She was a research fellow at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from 2009 to 2013, and in 2013, she served as a consultant to the UN special rapporteur on transitional justice at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. From 2009 to 2012, Cismas was legal advisor to a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council.

Ice cream and cookies were provided. Questions? Contact Ryann Craig, director of student programs.

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About Ioana Cismas

Dr. Ioana Cismas is the co-director of the Centre for Applied Human Rights and a reader at the York Law School. Cismas leads the funded research Generating Respect for Humanitarian Norms: The Influence of Religious Leaders on Parties to Armed Conflict and is currently a distinguished fellow with Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute.

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About Ryann Craig

Ryann Craig is special assistant to the vice president for mission and ministry and director of academic initiatives in Georgetown University's Office of Mission and Ministry. From October 2019 through December 2023 she was the director of student programs and an assistant research professor at the Berkley Center, as well as a faculty fellow at the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service at Georgetown University. Before joining the Berkley Center, she worked in academic support and student advising as assistant director of academic support at the Catholic University of America. She recently served as a copy editor for the International Qurʾānic Studies Association’s journal and monograph series (2016-2018) and has been involved in a number of religious minority cultural heritage preservation initiatives in the United States, Germany, and Israel/Palestine. Craig completed her Ph.D. (Catholic University of America) on the use of Quranic proof texts by medieval Christian Arabic and Syriac authors while in residence as a doctoral fellow at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute in Jerusalem. She is co-editor with Vasile-Octavian Mihoc of A Contested Coexistence: Insights in Arabic Christianity from Theology to Migration (Harrassowitz, 2020).

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