Kirsten Ainley is Professor of International Relations at the Australian National University and the Principal Investigator of the Hybrid Justice project. Her research focuses on international policy and practice in military, legal, and development-focused interventions, and the impacts of these interventions, with an increasing focus on their gendered impacts. She has published on international criminal law, transitional justice, and the International Criminal Court, and her current work traces funding streams for international courts and transitional justice programmes. She co-authored, with Mark Kersten, the Dakar Guidelines on the Establishment of Hybrid Courts, which develop good practice on setting up hybrid tribunals.
Mark Kersten is Assistant Professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, and a Senior Consultant at the Wayamo Foundation in Berlin, Germany. Mark is the founder of the blog Justice in Conflict and author of the book, published by Oxford University Press, by the same name. His research on the pursuit of justice and accountability for mass atrocities, peace processes and conflict resolution has appeared in numerous academic fora as well as media publications such as Al Jazeera, BBC, Foreign Policy, Toronto Star, and The Washington Post.