Jill is a Social Anthropologist with 20 years of experience connecting research and practice in humanitarian action, transitional justice and community development. She has been working with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) over the last 10 years on issues related with separated, missing and deceased persons in a variety of contexts including Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Greece and Lebanon as well as at ICRC Headquarters in Geneva where she designed and lead a transformation programme of the Central Tracing Agency (CTA) and designed and established the RCRC Missing Persons Centre to innovate the global response to Missing Persons and their families. She currently leads Research and Structural Support with the CTA`s RCRC Missing Persons Centre with a particular focus on developing high-impact research projects to strengthen advocacy and the operational response to Missing Persons and co-designing new approaches to long-term missing persons cases with authorities in chosen contexts.
Relevant publications:
Stockwell, Jill. Forthcoming. “Addressing missing persons arising from armed conflict as driver of peace: Towards a research agenda.” International Humanitarian Review of the Red Cross: IHL and Peace.
Stockwell, Jill. 2019. “Does Individual and Collective Remembrance of a Troubled Past Impede Reconciliation? From Argentina to Sri Lanka.” International Humanitarian Review of the Red Cross, No. 910 Memory and War. https://international-review.icrc.org/articles/does-individual-and-collective-remembrance-past-violence-impede-or-foster-reconciliation
Baraybar, Jose Pablo, Inés Caridi, and Jill Stockwell. 2020. “A Forensic Perspective on the New Disappeared: Migration Revisited.” In Forensic Science and Humanitarian Action: Interacting with the Dead and the Living, edited by R. Parra, S. Zapico, and D. Ubelaker, 101-115. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119482062.ch7.
Crettol, Monique, Lina Milner, Anne-Marie La Rosa, and Jill Stockwell. 2018. “Establishing mechanisms to clarify the fate and whereabouts of missing persons: A proposed humanitarian approach.” International Humanitarian Review of the Red Cross, No. 905 The Missing. https://international-review.icrc.org/articles/establishing-mechanisms-clarify-fate-and-whereabouts-missing-persons-proposed-humanitarian.
Stockwell, Jill. 2014. Reframing the Transitional Justice Paradigm. Springer Series in Transitional Justice. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-03853-7.
Stockwell, Jill. 2014. “‘The Country that doesn’t want to heal itself’: The Burden of History, Affect and Women’s Memories in Post-Dictatorial Argentina.” International Journal of Conflict and Violence focus section 8(1): 30-44. https://www.ijcv.org/index.php/ijcv/article/view/3043
