About AAN
Background and vision
Co-directors
Martine van Bijlert
Sari Kouvo
Thomas Ruttig
Advisory Board
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Sari Kouvo

Sari Kouvo is a Human Rights Lawyer with extensive knowledge of the Afghan justice system and human rights situation.

Sari holds a doctorate in International Law from Gothenberg University (Sweden), and has held visiting fellowships at the NATO Defence College (Italy), Kent University (UK), Abo Academy (Finland) and the Australian National University.

She has worked as Human Rights and Rule of Law Adviser to the EU Special Representative for Afghanistan in Kabul (2004-2006) and as researcher at Amnesty International. She currently heads the Afghanistan Program of the International Centre for Transitional Justice (ICTJ).

Selected publications include:

State-Building and Rule of Law: Lessons from Afghanistan?
NATO Defense College

Security Sector Reform in Afghanistan
Initiative for Peacebuilding and International Centre for Transitional Justice

Addressing Gender-Specific Violations in Afghanistan
International Centre for Transitional Justice

Righting the Course? Humanitarian Intervention, the War on Terror and the Future of Afghanistan
International Affairs Vol 84, No 4 (2008), pp. 641-657

A ‘Quick and Dirty’ Approach to Women’s Rights – A Case Study of Afghanistan
Feminist Legal Studies No. 16 (2008), pp. 37-46