Executive Director: John Sifton
John Sifton is an attorney and investigator with experience in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the United States. He worked at Human Rights Watch from 2001 until 2007, from 2005 to 2007 as the senior researcher on terrorism and counterterrorism, focusing on Asia, Europe, and the Middle East and South Asia, and from 2001 to 2004 as a researcher in Asia Division, focusing on Afghanistan, as well as India and Pakistan. He worked in 2000 and 2001 for a humanitarian organization, primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and in 1999 for a refugee advocacy organization in Albania and Kosovo. He has written extensively on terrorism and counterterrorism issues and on security and human rights issues in Afghanistan and Iraq, publishing articles in the International Herald Tribune, Slate, Salon, and the New York Times Magazine and New York Times Book Review. He has testified in the U.S. Congress on security issues in Afghanistan, and in European Parliament and Council of Europe committees on abuses by intelligence agencies in Europe. Mr. Sifton is a graduate of New York University School of Law (JD) and St. John’s College, Annapolis (BA).
Research Director: Jonathan Horowitz
Jonathan Horowitz is an investigator and research coordinator. From 2005 to 2007, he worked for the United Nations documenting human rights and laws of war violations in Darfur, Sudan, and drafted public reports and briefing papers for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. He also worked at the NYU Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and at Human Rights Watch from 2000 to 2003 as the program associate and coordinator, where he conducted research on post-September 11, 2001 hate crimes and assisted in the logistical and strategic coordination of Human Rights Watch researchers in Iraq in 2003. In 1998 and 1999, he researched truth commissions in South Africa and Chile. Jonathan Horowitz was published in the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, the Human Rights Brief, and the National Black Law Journal. He is a graduate of the University of Essex, U.K. (LLM) and Bates College, USA (BA).
Investigators
One World Research works with a network of investigators and researchers, both on a full-time and case-by-case basis. Investigators include:
Gavin Simpson is a human rights lawyer and investigator. He worked for over four years in West Africa (based in Freetown and Monrovia), leading investigations for the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Previously he was based in Banja Luka and Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina), documenting the legacies of inter-ethnic conflict in the former Yugoslavia. From 2005 to 2007, he worked with Council of Europe Rapporteur Dick Marty, investigating issues related to terrorism, counter-terrorism and global security, including the operations of military and civilian intelligence agencies. Simpson speaks German, French, Serbo-Croat and Krio. He holds an LLB from Glasgow University and an LLM from Columbia University, New York.
Bridget Prince is an investigator and researcher based in London. She has experience conducting investigations and research on criminal defense, capital litigation, domestic terrorism cases and on human rights and health issues. She has worked in Europe, the United States and South East Asia. From 2003-2006 she worked in the United States as an investigator for criminal defense and habeas capital cases. From 2000-2003 she worked as an ethnographer for the University of California, carrying out research on human rights and health issues in San Francisco and Vietnam. She is a graduate of the Center for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics (MSc) and Kings College, London (BA).
Melanie Carr is a veteran investigator and mitigation specialist based in the United States, with over a decade of experience with litigation in criminal defense and civil rights cases, particularly in the Deep South. In 2002, she was awarded an Echoing Green fellowship to launch a nonprofit organization, A Fighting Chance, based in New Orleans. A Fighting Chance, which raises standards for investigation and mitigation development in death penalty cases, was named a Social Capitalist Award winner in 2006 by Fast Company Magazine and Monitor Group as “an exceptional model of entrepreneurship in the not-for-profit service sector.” Melanie previously served as Director of Investigation and Mitigation at the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center. She has led training workshops and developed training curricula for criminal defense seminars and public defender offices across the United States. Melanie is a graduate of Harvard University with a BA in social anthropology.
Established local networks
One World Research also utilizes a broad network of local contacts in several countries around the world, including local journalists, attorneys, investigators, and human rights and humanitarian workers. One World Research is also affiliated with several private investigation firms in the United States, including Public Interest Investigations,
www.piila.com, based in Los Angeles.
