Documenting Atrocity: Civil Society and the Fight Against Impunity in Sudan

Mutasim A. Ali

Legal Advisor at the Raoul Wallenberg Center for Human Rights

Mutasim A. Ali is a legal advisor at the RWCHR and co-authors the independent legal analysis into breaches of the Genocide Convention in Sudan. His current practice focuses on international criminal law, international human rights and humanitarian law, transitional justice, and targeted human rights and anti-corruption sanctions. Mr. Ali is a Doctor of Juridical Science Candidate at the American University Washington College of Law. His research is focused on public law, conflict resolution, and the duality of peace-making and constitution-making processes in post-conflict states.

Quscondy Abdulshafi

Independent Research Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide

Abdulshafi leads research on international support for Civilian Self-Protection initiatives and has over a decade of experience advancing democracy, human rights, and inclusive governance across Africa and the United States. A former Senior Regional Advisor for Africa at Freedom House, he previously directed programs at the Sudan Democracy First Group and the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies.

Jehanne Henry

Sudan Director, The Reckoning Project

Jehanne is an independent consultant on human rights and international justice. She previously served as an adviser in Sudan's transitional government and as Director of Human Rights Watch's Africa Division, leading work on Sudan, South Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania.

Henry has authored numerous reports and articles on East Africa, lectured at Columbia Law School and Hunter College, and is an associate scholar at the Middle East Institute. Earlier in her career, she held roles with the UN in Darfur and Kosovo, USAID in Cambodia, and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

Janine di Giovanni

CEO, The Reckoning Project (Moderator)

Janine di Giovanni is the founder and CEO of TRP. An award-winning author, human rights investigator, and academic, she is also a Senior Fellow at Yale University's Jackson School of Global Affairs and a former UN consultant on human rights and transitional justice.

Over more than three decades, she has documented conflicts across the Balkans, the Middle East, and Africa, and is the author of eight acclaimed books, including The Morning They Came for Us and The Vanishing.