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Janine di Giovanni



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VANITY FAIR SENT ME TO UKRAINE TO CHRONICLE MY PROJECT’S CAMPAIGN TO COLLECT
EVIDENCE OF RUSSIAN ATROCITIES THAT MIGHT STAND UP IN COURT AGAINST PUTIN, HIS
COMMANDERS, AND THEIR TROOPS.
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ABOUT JANINE

Janine di Giovanni is a multi-award winning journalist and author, and
co-founder and co-director of The Reckoning Project. Janine was a war reporter
for nearly three decades, from the first Palestinian intifada in the early 1990s
to the siege of Sarajevo; the Rwandan genocide; the brutal wars in Sierra Leone,
Somalia, Ivory Coast and Liberia to Chechnya, Afghanistan, Pakistan. She
reported extensively in  Iraq pre and post invasion, the Arab Spring, and
finally Syria.  Her field work for her most recent book took her to Gaza, Iraq,
Egypt and Syria.  In 2020, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her
their highest non fiction prize, the Blake Dodd. Janine served as a Senior
Fellow and Professor at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs
from 2018-2022 where she taught two human rights courses which looked at eight
different conflicts in depth:  Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Yemen,
Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan. She also taught a course at Yale in Reporting War
for Humanitarians. In 2016, CNN made a short video about her life and work when
the International Women’s’ Media Foundation gave her their prestigious Courage
in Journalism Prize, which you can watch HERE. You can also read a compelling
article in the New Yorker written about her in 2011 HERE.

 


For her most recent project, Janine founded and directs The Reckoning Project:
Ukraine Testifies, a transitional justice organization that trains researchers
in Ukraine to collect testimonies that can be used in court. Through her work as
a conflict journalist, Janine has experienced firsthand the frustration when
testimonies collected directly from victims are inadmissible in courts. So, in
partnership with Peter Pomerantsev, she’s created a team of legal experts and
journalists to bridge the gap between journalism and justice.



Janine’s latest book, The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle
East, was published in 2022 and shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human
Rights, as well as being presented to His Holiness, Pope Francis, in Rome in
March 2022. Her previous book, The Morning they Came for Us: Dispatches from
Syria  was translated into 28 languages and was a finalist for the Helen
Bernstein New York Public Library Award for Excellence in Journalism. Click
here to read more about it. She has published eight other books. You can read
more about them and support her work by buying them HERE. 

Di Giovanni was a war reporter for nearly three decades, from the first
Palestinian intifada in the early 1990s to the siege of Sarajevo; the Rwandan
genocide; the brutal wars in Sierra Leone, Somalia, Ivory Coast and Liberia to
Chechnya, Afghanistan, Pakistan. She reported extensively in  Iraq pre and post
invasion, and the Arab Spring and finally Syria.  Her field work for her current
book takes her to Gaza, Iraq, Egypt and Syria.    

Her focus is on war crimes; global terrorism; refugee issues and sexual violence
during war time.   Her goal is to document evidence on the ground that can later
be cited in war crimes tribunals.  She works alone; often undercover and in
closed and difficult countries.

She is the former Edward R. Murrow Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations
and has won more than a dozen awards, including the National Magazine Award, two
Amnesty International Prizes and the prestigious  Courage in Journalism, and
many others. You can see the full list HERE. 

As an analyst,  Janine has written governmental white papers and been a Senior
Consultant for projects for the UN Refugee Agency; the UN Democracy Fund; the
The Shattuck Center on Conflict, Negotiation and Recover; the International
Refugee Commission.  She is an International Board Member of the Institute for
War and Peace Reporting, and she is also an advisor on strategic communications.
 

Di Giovanni was a long-time Senior Foreign Correspondent for The Times of London
and a Contributing Editor for Vanity Fair. She now writes for the New York
Times; the Washington Posts; The Guardian; The New York Review of Books;
Harpers; The Atlantic; Foreign Affairs and many other publications. She
currently has a twice monthly column ion Global Affairs in The Nation Newspaper,
in Abu Dhabi which you can follow HERE. 

As a speaker, her TED Talk “What I saw in the War” has over 1 million views. She
has been a Delegate to the World Economic Forum, Davos;  The UK Governments’
Conference on Sexual Violence during War Time; a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy
School; Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Government; the London School of
Economics, She has moderated events at The World Bank, The United Nations, the
US State Department; and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy where she was
a Pakis Fellow in 2016. 

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the British Governments
Stabilization Unit for Fragile States. She is a non-resident Fellow at New
America Foundation and the Geneva Center for Security Policy. 

A multi-national, Janine lives in Manhattan with her son, Luca, but she also
considers London and Paris home.  

Janine has written thousands of essays, reportage and Op Eds over her thirty
year career, and you can see all of them HERE.

But to make life simpler, here are her favorite…

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…RECENT PIECES


SCENES FROM HELL: A DISTURBING VIDEO OUT OF UKRAINE EVOKES SIMILAR SCENES FROM
SREBRENICA, FOREIGN POLICY, AUGUST 2022


HOLDING RUSSIA TO ACCOUNT FOR WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE, VANITY FAIR, AUGUST 2022


PUTIN’S GRUESOME PLAYBOOK, FOREIGN POLICY, APRIL 2022


WHEN JUSTICE IS OUT OF REACH, THE ATLANTIC, MAY 2021


THE FIRST DRAFT OF HISTORY, FP, JANUARY 2021


ON MORAL INJURY, HARPER’S MAGAZINE, AUGUST 2020


SIERRA LEONE, 2000: A CASE HISTORY IN SUCCESSFUL INTERVENTIONISM, THE NEW YORK
REVIEW, JUNE 2019

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…PODCAST APPEARANCES









 



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…STORIES


 1.  HOLDING RUSSIA TO ACCOUNT FOR WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE, VANITY FAIR, AUGUST
     2022


 2.  SCENES FROM HELL: A DISTURBING VIDEO OUT OF UKRAINE EVOKES SIMILAR IMAGES
     FROM SREBRENICA, FOREIGN POLICY, AUGUST 2022


 3.  MADNESS VISIBLE VANITY FAIR (WINNER OF THE NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD, 2000)


 4.  7 DAYS IN SYRIA


 5.  IN SYRIA, EVEN THE HOSPITALS AREN’T SAFE (THE NEW YORK TIMES)


 6.  FROZEN TIME IN WAR TIME SYRIA (THE NEW YORK TIMES)


 7.  AFTER ZERO HOUR


 8.  THE VANISHING (HARPER’S MAGAZINE)


 9.  WHY ASSAD AND RUSSIA TARGETS THE WHITE HELMETS (THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF
     BOOKS)


 10. MOUNTAINTOP TOWN IS A DIVERSE HAVEN FROM SYRIA’S HORRORS (THE NEW YORK
     TIMES)

… and for something a bit lighter, Janine’s travels with her Yugoslavian mentor
and “Godmother” the late Dessa Trevisan:


UP AT TITO’S VILLA (THE NEW YORK TIMES)

 

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…FILMS/TV AND TALKS

here some are some recent TV clips of her as a foreign policy analysis:


MSNBC: NYT: CUSTODY OF ISIS FIGHTERS IN DOUBT


CNN: "WE NEED TO PROTECT THE CIVILIANS" IN SYRIA


MNSBC: ANALYSIS


LISTEN TO JANINE WITH BRIAN LEHRER ON NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

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