Daniel Rothenberg

Dr. Daniel Rothenberg is founding co-director of the Future Security Initiative, Professor of Practice at ASU and a Senior Fellow at New America. Previously, Dr. Rothenberg was the founding executive director of the Center for Law and Global Affairs at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Managing Director of International Projects at the International Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul University College of Law, Senior Fellow at the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan, and a Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows. Dr. Rothenberg works on international human rights, global security, genocide, and transitional justice. He has designed and managed rule of law and human rights projects in Afghanistan, Iraq, Central Africa and throughout Latin America, including programs to train human rights NGOs, aid indigenous peoples in using international legal remedies, support gender justice, and collect and analyze thousands of first-person narratives from victims of atrocities. His books include With These Hands, Memory of Silence: The Guatemalan Truth Commission Report, Drone Wars: Transforming Conflict, Law, and Policy, and Understanding the New Proxy Wars. He has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and a PhD in international law from the University of Nottingham.