Nathan Hale Foreign Policy Society

 

 

 

Zachary Kaufman

Co-director of the Africa Program

 

zachary.kaufman@foreignpolicysociety.org

 

 

Interests

International Relations history and theory; United States foreign policy; transitional justice (particularly the prevention and cessation of and recovery from genocide and other atrocities, and domestic, hybrid, and international war crimes tribunals); international humanitarian and criminal law; the international relations of Africa; Rwandan history, politics, and culture; and social entrepreneurship.

 

 

Current Projects

Research on international, hybrid, and domestic war crimes tribunals (including the International Criminal Court, the ad hoc UN International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the Iraqi Special Tribunal, and the International Military Tribunals for Germany at Nuremberg and for the Far East at Tokyo); building Rwanda’s first public library, the Kigali Public Library.

 

 

Education

D.Phil (PhD) candidate in International Relations, Magdalen College, University of Oxford (2004-present); M.Phil (Master’s degree) in International Relations, Magdalen College, University of Oxford (2004); B.A. (Bachelor’s degree) in Political Science, Yale University (2000).

 

 

Background

Mr. Kaufman is currently a Fellow at Stanford University, in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL).  While at Stanford University, Mr. Kaufman is completing his D.Phil (PhD) degree in International Relations from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar from 2002-05.  Starting in fall 2006, Mr. Kaufman will attend Yale Law School.

 

Mr. Kaufman’s professional experience has focused on the investigation, apprehension, and prosecution of suspected perpetrators of atrocities, including genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and terrorism.  He has served at the United States Department of State, the United States Department of Justice, the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.  Mr. Kaufman also was the first American to serve at the International Criminal Court, where he was policy clerk to the first Chief Prosecutor.

 

 

Ongoing Activities

 

Mr. Kaufman is the founder, president, and chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Kigali Public Library; co-founder and Executive Director of Marshall Scholars for the Kigali Public Library; and an Honorary Member of the Rotary Club of Kigali-Virunga, Rwanda.  Together, these three non-profit organizations are fundraising and collecting books for, raising public awareness about, and building Rwanda’s first public library, the Kigali Public Library.  Mr. Kaufman is also a Board Member and Senior Fellow of Humanity in Action, which, in order to engage student leaders in the study and work of human rights, sponsors an integrated set of education programs and internships for university students in Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United States.

 

Selected Publications

§              “What Does a Terrorist Look Like?”  Letter to the Editor.  New York Times.  31 July 2005: Section 4 (“Week in Review”), 11.

§              “A Genocide by Any Other Name: Debating Genocide in Rwanda and Sudan.”  Opinion Editorial.  Broward Times (South Florida newspaper).  15 July 2005: 6.  (co-authored with Jared A. Cohen).

§               “The Future of Transitional Justice.”  St. Antony’s International Review (University of Oxford Journal of International Relations).  Volume 1, Number 1 (March 2005): 58-81.

§              “Darfur, Now That We Know….”  Letter to the Editor.  New York Times.  24 February 2005: A22.

§              “An African Tragedy.”  Letter to the Editor.  New York Times.  27 March 2004: A14.

§              “Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century.”  Humanity in Action Foundation.  16 Dec. 2003.

§              “American Students Launch ‘Marshall Plan’ for Rwanda’s First Public Library.”  The Bulletin (publication of the Association of Commonwealth Universities).  No. 156.  Aug. 2003.  26.  (co-authored with Lauren Baer).

§              “Hunting War Criminals.”  Letter to the Editor.  New York Times.  26 April 2003: A28.

§              “U.S. and Iraq: The Ground Shifts.”  Letter to the Editor.  New York Times 19 Sept. 2002: A30.

§              “The Competing Values of Retribution and Forgiveness.”  Rwanda and South Africa in Dialogue: Addressing the Legacies of Genocide and a Crime Against Humanity.  Eds.  Charles Villa-Vicencio and Tyrone Savage.  South Africa: Institute of Justice and Reconciliation, 2001.  (co-authored with Pierre-Richard St. Hilaire).

§              “Building Rwanda’s First Public Library.”  Central African Magazine 40 (2001): 31-2.

§              “Band Aid for HIV in Africa?”  Pharma Pricing & Reimbursement (UK pharmaceutical journal) July 2001: 10.  (co-authored with Brendon Graeber).

§              “Other Forms of Justice.”  Letter to the Editor.  New York Times 19 Dec. 2000: A30.

§              “Ballots Were Absent: System of Absentee Voting is Flawed and Should be Fixed.”  Op. Ed.  Dominion Post (West Virginia newspaper) 18 Nov. 2000: 10-A.

§       “Pre-trial Detention in Denmark.”  The Humanity-in-Action Reports of the 1999 Fellows. Vol. 1, Aug. 1999.  (co-authored with Søren Thestrup).

§       “Is Integration an Abandoned Dream?”  The Voice: A Forum on Race for the Yale and New Haven Communities Mar. 1999: 5-12.

§       “Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Israel.”  Maccabean (Jewish newspaper of Western Australia) 15 May 1998: 1.