Experts and Consultants
David Cortright is Senior Fellow and chair of the Board of Directors of the Fourth Freedom Forum. He is also Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and codirector of the Sanctions and Security Research Program. He has served as consultant or advisor to various agencies of the United Nations, the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, the International Peace Academy, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Along with George A. Lopez he has provided research and consulting services to the Foreign Ministry of Sweden, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, and the Foreign Ministry of Germany. He has written widely on nuclear disarmament, nonviolent social change, and the use of incentives and sanctions as tools of international peacemaking.
Contact dcortrig@nd.edu
George A. Lopez holds the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C. Chair in Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Lopez's research interests focus primarily on the problems of state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions, gross violations of human rights, and ethics and the use of force. Lopez serves as the Senior Fellow at the Sanctions and Security Research Program.
Contact at glopez@nd.edu
Linda M. Gerber-Stellingwerf is Chief Operating Officer of the Fourth Freedom Forum and codirector of the Sanctions and Security Research Program. She received her Master of Library Science degree from the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. She plans events associated with the Forum and the Center, and has helped write and edit various reports and books produced by the Fourth Freedom Forum. She is a member of the Special Libraries Association.
Contact at lgerber-stellingwerf@fourthfreedom.org
Prof. Dr. Erika de Wet is Professor of International Constitutional Law at the Amsterdam Center for International Law since 2004. In the same year she was also appointed as Extraordinary Professor at the Faculty of Law, North West University (Potchefstroom campus) and since 2008 also at the Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria (both in South Africa). She further lectures in international law at the University of Zurich (Switzerland) on a regular basis. Since 2007 she serves as a member of the Advisory Committee on Issues of Public International Law of the Netherlands (CAVV).