Janet McKnight

Africa Conflict Coder

Janet McKnight is a human rights lawyer and PhD Candidate in Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Kent. Her research explores the intersection of social theory and post-conflict transition, with a focus on traditional justice practices. She previously worked with Human Rights Watch in Beirut, and has published on refugee rights in South Africa, child soldiering in Liberia, and armed conflict and accountability in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. She also recently published a fiction short story set in the 2006 July War in Lebanon. Janet holds an LLM from the School of Oriental and African Studies, a JD from Tulane University Law School, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

You can follow Janet’s research at http://sociolegalocean.blogspot.co.uk/.