Helen Scanlon

Helen Scanlon, Director, Gender Justice Program of the International Center for Transitional Justice.

"Helen holds a Ph.D in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Helen worked at the University of Cape Town, South Africa between 2002 and 2007 in both a teaching and research capacity. Prior to joining the ICTJ she was a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution. Between 2002 and 2004 she was a research fellow in UCT's Department of Historical Studies and after this was based at the university's African Gender Institute. She is author of "Representation & Reality: Portraits of Women's Lives in the Western Cape 1948 – 1976" (Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2007) and is co-editor with Adekeye Adebajo of "A Dialogue of the Deaf: Essays on Africa and the United Nations" (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2006)."