Tine Destrooper is the director of Justice Visions and a professor at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University. She is also a member of the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University.
She won 3 ERC grants (Starting, Consolidator, Proof of Concept) for her research focusing on victim engagement in transitional justice. She currently carries out a cross-case analysis of the role of documentation in transitional justice. She is also the coordinator of a cross-institutional project on future-proofing human rights accountability, and is engaged in various case studies regarding transitional justice in aparadigmatic contexts.
In 2023 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to undertake research at Columbia University’s Law School, and in 2024-2025 she was a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow at the Institut d’Etudes Avancées in Paris.
She is a member of the Research Council (Ghent University) and the co-chair of the Human Rights Research Network (Ghent University).
Previously, she held positions at various European and American institutions, including New York University, the European University Institute, Leiden University, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin and the Universities of Antwerp and Leuven. Here she conducted research on the consequences of violent conflict and the role of the international community in dealing with the aftermath of violent conflict. She was previously also the director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice in New York, where she gained experience in managing and publishing policy-oriented research, and where she worked together with researchers, civil society organisations and policymakers across various levels.
University Degrees
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