Panelist
Douglas A. Johnson
Executive Director, Center for Victims of Torture
Douglas A. Johnson has been executive director of the Center for Victims of Torture since 1988. CVT provides comprehensive care for victims of government-sponsored torture, conducts research and training, and undertakes policy efforts to commit the U.S. and other institutions to work against torture and aid torture survivors. Mr. Johnson has led CVT through an important period of growth, when offices and treatment centers were established in St. Paul, Washington D.C. and Africa.
Mr. Johnson pioneered the New Tactics in Human Rights project to promote tactical innovation and strategic thinking within the international human rights community. The New Tactics project works to enhance the effectiveness of practitioners and organizations worldwide by developing tools and networks to share creative ideas and foster tactical innovation. Mr. Johnson also serves as an original member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Advisory Panel on the Prevention of Torture (established in 1998).
A committed human rights advocate since the 1970s, Mr. Johnson chaired the Infant Formula Action Coalition (INFACT). INFACT launched a boycott against the world’s largest food corporation, Nestlé, to force it to change its marketing of breast milk substitutes.
Mr. Johnson holds a Masters in Public and Private Management (MPPM), School of Organization and Management, Yale University. He received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Macalester College in 2001. He has been an associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, and at the Albert Einstein Institute for Non-Violent Sanctions in Cambridge, MA. He has received the David W. Preus Leadership Award (2003), the Pax Christi Award from St. John’s University (2001), the Twin Cities International Citizen Award (1999), and the Archbishop John Ireland Award for Distinguished Service to Justice (1981) In 1982, he accepted the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award on behalf of INFACT.
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Keynote
Harry Debes
Panelists
Stephen B. Young
Sara Criger
Bonnie Holub
Douglas A. Johnson
Mark Stutrud
Peter Vaill |
