Sévane Garibian is an SNF Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and an Associate Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Neuchâtel. She is also an Associate Researcher at the Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux (EHESS / CNRS, Paris). She was co-beneficiary of an ERC Consolidator Grant (2012-2016) for the European research project "Corpses of Mass Violence and Genocide" led by Elisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus. She is currently leading the SNF research programme “Right to Truth, Truth(s) Through Rights: Mass Crimes Impunity and Transitional Justice” (2016-2020) at UNIGE.

Recent publications include: S. Garibian ed., La mort du bourreau. Réflexions interdisciplinaires sur le cadavre des criminels de masse (Pétra, 2016), also published in Spanish (Miño y Dávila, 2016) and in English as a special issue of the Journal of Genocide Research (Taylor & Francis Online, 2018) ; S. Garibian, E. Anstett, J.-M. Dreyfus eds., Restos humanos e Identificación : violencia de masa, genocidio y el “giro forense” (Miño y Dávila) 2017 ; and the special issue (co-edited with C. Kress) “Laying the Foundations for a Convention on Crimes Against Humanity” in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford University Press, 2018).
 

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Photo: Euphrates basin (Syria), 1920s. Remains of victims thrown into the Euphrates waters, in the Syrian Desert, during the Armenian Genocide. © Norwegian Royal Archive