Local Action/Global Change: A Handbook on Women's Human Rights

Julie Mertus is an Associate Professor and Codirector of the MA program in Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs at American University. A graduate of Yale Law School, Professor Mertus has twenty years of experience working for a wide range of nongovernmental and governmental human rights organizations. Her prior appointments include: Senior Fellow, U.S. Institute of Peace; Human Rights Fellow, Harvard Law School; Writing Fellow, MacArthur Foundation; Fulbright Fellow (Romania 1995; Denmark 2006); and Counsel, Human Rights Watch. Her book Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy (2004) was named –œhuman rights book of the year– by the American Political Science Association Human Rights Section. Her other books include: Human Rights and Conflict (2006)(editor, with Jeffrey Helsing); The United Nations and Human Rights (2005); Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War (1999); and The Suitcase: Refugees’ Voices from Bosnia and Croatia (1999). Professor Mertus has won several awards for her innovative curriculum design and teaching. In 2005, she was named the School of International Service Scholar/Teacher of the Year.,
Nancy Flowers serves as a consultant to governments, nongovernmental organizations, and UN agencies on human rights education. She has trained activists, educators, lawyers, police, journalists, and parliamentarians in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Her publications include articles, books, and manuals on human rights education, most recently Compasito, a manual for children’s rights education (2007); Enabling Rights, a manual on the human rights of people with disabilities (2007); and The Human Rights Education Series (2007). She is the editor of the Human Rights Education Series for the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Center. She makes her home in Menlo Park, California.