Stephanie Frease of the Coalition of International Justice to speak at UNCW
1/31/2005 3:06:29 PM
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Jan. 31, 2004
By Ruthie Seeley, PR Intern
Wilmington, N.C. – University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Department of Political Science Department will present Stephanie Frease, the director of programs at the Coalition for International Justice (CIJ), as part of the Great Decision Discussion Program at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 22 in Cameron Hall auditorium, Room 105.
CIJ is an international, non-profit organization that supports the international war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. It also supports justice initiatives in East Timor, Sierra Leone and Cambodia. CIJ initiates and conducts advocacy and public education campaigns.
In 2004, Frease directed a project in which a multinational team of interviewers collected over 1,200 statements of refugees from Darfur. The program was conducted in cooperation with the U.S. State Department and USAID over a six-week period in July and August 2004. The study was commissioned by Secretary of State Colin Powell, who said he wanted to “collect a large body of unbiased data in order to come to his own conclusion” about what was happening in the western region of Sudan. In September 2004, after reviewing the team’s findings, Powell went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and declared the actions of the Sudanese government to be genocide.
Before joining CIJ in September 2000, Frease worked for the Investigation Section in the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. From 1992-94 she worked in Croatia and Bosnia assisting war relief efforts for the International Rescue Committee.
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