Pablo de Greiff

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Who is Pablo de Greiff?

Pablo de Greiff is a Colombian human rights activist, currently serving as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion of truth, justice, reparation and guarantees of non-recurrence.

Born in Bogotá on 20 June 1963, de Greiff graduated from Yale University in 1986, and completed his PhD. at Northwestern University in 1992. He was Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the State University of New York from 1992 to 2002, and Associate Professor there in 2000-2003. He was a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University, in 2000-2001. In 2001 he joined the International Center for Transitional Justice, a human rights INGO based in New York, becoming its Director of Research.

While at the ICTJ de Greiff provided advice on transitional justice to the World Bank, other UN agencies, governments, truth and reconciliation commissions and other bodies, including the National Reparations Commission in Guatemala, the Colombian National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation, the Equity and Reconciliation Commission in Morocco and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He has also worked in the Philippines and Palestine, and has prepared for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Rule of Law Tools for Post-Conflict States on Reparations Programmes, as well as advising OHCHR projects on reparations, Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration, and economic, social and cultural rights in post-conflict situations.

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