Tine Destrooper

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 carries out a cross-case analysis of the role of documentation in transitional justice. She is also the coordinator of a cross-institutional project on future-proofing human rights accountability, and is engaged in various case studies regarding transitional justice in aparadigmatic 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 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 she was a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellow at the Institut d’Études Avancées in Paris the following year.

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.

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.