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Carla De Ycaza is the editor of the Dialogues on Historical Justice and Memory Network at Columbia University. She received her M.A. in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University and her B.A. in Political Science and Classics from Vassar College. She is currently finishing her Ph.D. in International Human Rights Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights. Her research has focused on traditional and modern approaches to post-conflict transitional justice in Africa in response to genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. She is a lecturer at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, and was a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University. She has worked with civil society organizations in Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and currently serves as Assistant Program Director of Conflict Resolution at the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding.