Fred Abrahams
USA
MA in International Affairs
Columbia University
Fred Abrahams is Associate Program Director at Human Rights Watch in Berlin, responsible for training HRW's research staff, developing research methodology, and supervising work by the Crisis & Conflict and Technology & Human Rights divisions. He has documented human rights and laws-of-war violations in places such as Albania, Bangladesh, Iraq, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Sri Lanka, Syria and Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. He has authored numerous reports, articles and opinion pieces on human rights and co-authored A Village Destroyed: War Crimes in Kosovo (University of California Press, 2002). His book, Modern Albania: From Dictatorship to Democracy in Europe (NYU Press, 2015), describes the fall of communism and turbulent transition in Albania. Abrahams has a bachelor's degree in German and International Studies from Washington University and a master's in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He previously taught at Columbia University and The New School in New York.MA in International Affairs
Columbia University
Courses offered at Bard College Berlin:
Making the Case: Human Rights Research and Reporting (Spring 2022)
Contact:
Fred Abrahams
International Affairs
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