Mariana Karkoutly

2021: M.A in Social and Political Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin. 

2017: M.A in Social Work as a Human Rights Profession, Alice- Salomon- Hochschule Berlin.

2014: B.A. in Law, Damascus University.

2019: Legal training, European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), Berlin.

2019: Legal training, The Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) in partnership with the Institute for International Criminal Investigations (IICI), Sarajevo.

Since 2023: PhD candidate and researcher in the MeDiMi project “Human Rights Crimes, Norm Entrepreneurs, and the Implementation of the Principle of Universal Jurisdiction in Germany” (Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel), Center for Conflict Studies, University of Marburg

Since 2023: Trainer on legal investigations in relation to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Lawyers for Justice in Libya, United Kingdom

Since 2023: Author and researcher, Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights, United Kingdom

2023: Trainer on documenting witness testimonies in research practices, Goldsmiths University, London

Since 2022: Legal investigator, Huquqyat, Berlin

2022: Legal investigator, Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Research, Berlin

2020–2022: Legal investigator, Center for Justice and Accountability

2018–2022: Board member and co-founder, Gemeinsamer Horizont e.V., Berlin

2019–2021: Project manager, Adopt A Revolution, Berlin

2016–2019: Project manager, StadtRand gGmbH, Berlin

Board member at GEM (Guardians of Equality Movement), Canada

Chair of BoD Huquqyat, United Kingdom

Speaker at the UN Security Council Open Debate on Sexual Violence in Conflict (13 April 2022)

Speaker at various events discussing topics of “justice and accountability” related to Syria

2019: Third prizewinner with El Salem, Humboldt University – Berlin Bosphorus Initiative “Bosphorus Prize”

(2023) Kneel or Starve. The Use of Siege and Starvation as a Method of Warfare in South Damascus, Huquqyat and SCLSR, https://sl-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Kneel-or-starve-3.pdf (with Leila Sibai).

(2023) Syrian state torture on trial. “Aktenzeichen 1St 9/19 Syrisches Rechtsempfinden versus deutsches Gerichtsverfahren”, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. https://www.bpb.de/system/files/dokument_pdf/SR_10952_Syrian_State_Torture_on_Trial.pdf

(2021) Selbsthilfe und Flucht. Eine Handreichung zum Aufbau von Selbsthilfegruppen für Menschen mit Fluchterfahrung [Self-help and Flight. Handbook on Establishing Self-help Groups for People with Refugee Experience], Berlin: StadtRand gGmbH, https://www.stadtrand-berlin.de/user-files/pdf/LouLou-Broschuere-web.pdf (co-edited with Peter Zweigler, Sandy Albhari, and Birgit Sowade).

(2019) EU‐Turkey Relations. Turkish Membership in the EU at Arm’s Length, Humboldt University – Berlin Bosphorus Initiative, https://www.bbi-de.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/KarkoutlySalem-final.pdf (with El Salem).