Pardis Shafafi is an anthropologist specialising in political violence, legal anthropology and peoples´ tribunals, having completed her doctoral degree from the University of St Andrews in 2015 on these and other related themes. She has special expertise and interest on enduring victim-survivor pursuits for accountability and justice in contexts of impunity for powerful perpetuators. Dr Shafafi is the co-editor of the 2015 ‘States of impunity’ series for OpenDemocracy and co-editor and contributor to the upcoming 2019 special edition ’The Ethnography of Peoples’ Tribunals’ for PoLAR journal, writing on violation documentation efforts in the Syrian conflict. She is currently researching and writing on state practices of ‘enforced forgetting’ in the wake of systematic violence for a forthcoming Routledge Volume on these wider themes and acts as an elected convenor of the European Association of Anthropologists' Applied Anthropology Network, alongside her role as senior researcher at Designit Oslo.

Anthropology, Iran, conflict, trauma, peoples’ tribunals, legal anthropology, anthropology of violence, political movements

Researcher and Advisor, ERC Off-Site project