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Kjell Anderson
He/Him
Associate Professor
Dr. Kjell Anderson is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Manitoba, specializing in genocide, perpetrator studies, international criminal law, and transitional justice. He is the author of Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account (2017) and co-editor of Researching Perpetrators of Genocide (2020). His fieldwork spans Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Bosnia, Cambodia, Bangladesh, and northern Iraq, where he has investigated atrocity crimes, victim experiences, and perpetrator narratives. He has held academic positions at the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, the University of the Fraser Valley, and the National University of Rwanda, and worked with NGOs, think tanks, and international organizations. His current projects include books on Dominic Ongwen, the Rohingya genocide, and epistemic justice and transitional justice, as well as a graphic novel on the Yezidi Genocide. His interdisciplinary research integrates legal, criminological, and social science approaches to mass violence and post-conflict accountability.
Publications/Papers
Anderson, Kjell. 2022. “Genocide against the Êzidîs in Iraq: The Sinjār Massacre and Its Aftermath.” In The Oxford Handbook of Atrocity Crimes, edited by Barbora Holá, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, and Maartje Weerdesteijn, 0. Oxford University Press.
Anderson, Kjell. 2021. The Dilemma of Dominic Ongwen: A Child Soldier on Trial. Genocide, Political Violence, and Human Rights Series. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.,
Anderson, Kjell Follingstad, and Erin Jessee, eds. 2020. Researching Perpetrators of Genocide. Critical Human Rights. University of Wisconsin Pres.
Anderson, Kjell. 2018. Perpetrating Genocide: A Criminological Account. London: Routledge.
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