PGEF ADVISORY BOARD
Reva N. Adler • Shyaka Anastase • Elizabeth Brill • Eugene Bushayija • Gerald Caplan • Smail Cekic • Francois Gurambe • Robert K. Hitchcock • Carole Hodge • Linda R. Melvern • Martin Mennecke • Esther Mujawayo • Cecile Mukarubuga • Leon Saur • Gregory H. Stanton • Ervin Staub • Scott Straus • Samuel Totten • Rafiki Ubaldo • Alexander Zahar
Reva N. Adler • Shyaka Anastase • Elizabeth Brill • Eugene Bushayija • Gerald Caplan • Smail Cekic • Francois Gurambe • Robert K. Hitchcock • Carole Hodge • Linda R. Melvern • Martin Mennecke • Esther Mujawayo • Cecile Mukarubuga • Leon Saur • Gregory H. Stanton • Ervin Staub • Scott Straus • Samuel Totten • Rafiki Ubaldo • Alexander Zahar
Linda R. Melvern
Honorary Professor in the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Second Vice-President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars
Linda Melvern is an investigative journalist. She has worked on many UK newspapers such as The London Evening News, The Evening Standard, and The Sunday Times. She has written for The Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Irish Times, The Scotsman and the London Review of Books. She is the author of six books of nonfiction.
She was a consultant to the Military One prosecution team at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR),and part of her archive of documents on the planning and preparation of the genocide form a substantial part of the documentary evidence used by the prosecution at the ICTR.
Much of her work over the past decade and a half has focused on the circumstances of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.
Select List of Publications
- Melvern, Linda (2000). A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda's Genocide. London: Zed Books.
- Melvern, Linda (2004). Conspiracy to Murder: The Rwandan Genocide. London: Verso.
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