Tine Destrooper

Short Bio

Tine Destrooper is the director of Justice Visions and a professor at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of Ghent University. She is also a member of the Human Rights Centre at Ghent University.

Her research focuses on victim engagement in transitional justice. She currently oversees a cross-case analysis of the role of documentation in transitional justice, as well as various other research projects regarding grassroots transitional justice initiatives across a diverse range of contexts.

Her research has been supported by three European Research Council grants (Starting Grant 804515, Consolidator Grant 101171170, Proof of Concept 101212937), as well as several other major grants by the Flemish Foundation for Scientific Research and the Special Research Fund of Ghent University.

In 2023 she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to undertake research at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and a year later a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship to carry out research at the Institut d’Études Avancées in Paris.

Prior to this, she held academic positions at various European and American institutions, including Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (2016-2017), New York University’s Law School (2015-2016), the Universities of Antwerp and Leuven (2013-2015), Leiden University (2012-2013), and the European University Institute (2008-2012). Here she conducted research on the consequences of violent conflict and the role of civil society in dealing with the aftermath of violent conflict.

She is currently a member of the Research Council  of Ghent University and the co-chair of the Human Rights Research Network  at that same university.

Before joining Ghent University, she was the managing director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice in at New York University, where she gained experience in managing and publishing policy-oriented research, and where she worked together with researchers, civil society organisations and policymakers at various levels; and the director of the Flemish Peace Institute – an independent research centre with the Flemish Parliament.

Education

University Degrees

• PhD Social and Political Science (European University Institute)
• MRes Social and Political Sciences (European University Institute)
• MA Politics, Security and Integration (University College London)
• BA Political Science (Leuven University)

Past and current professional positions

• Associate Professor Transitional Justice, Human Rights Centre, Ghent University (since October 2018)
• Director Flemish Peace Institute (Jan 2018 – March 2019)
• Research Fellow, Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice, Law School, New York University, United States (Jan 2015 – Aug 2017)
• Research Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany (Sep 2016 – Jul 2017)
• Director, Centre for Human Rights and Global Justice, Law School, New York University, United States (Jul 2015 – Jun 2016)
• University Lecturer, Antwerp Centre for Institutions and Multilevel Politics, Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium (Sep 2013 – Jun 2015, part time)
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, Law and Development Research Group, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, Belgium (2014)
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, School for Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University, the Netherlands (Dec 2012 – Dec 2013).