The project was designed and implemented by the Irish
Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) in collaboration with the Open Society Justice
Initiative (OSJI). The project management team consisted of Liam Herrick and
Stephen O’Hare (ICCL), Zaza Namoradze and Irmina Pacho (OSJI), and the
research consultant to the project, Emeritus Professor Ed Cape (University of
the West of England, Bristol). The research in the nine countries included in the
study was carried out by staff of the partner organisations: the Ludwig Boltzmann
Institute of Human Rights, Austria; the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Bulgaria;
the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, Hungary; Associazione Antigone, Italy; the
Human Rights Monitoring Institute, Lithuania; the Helsinki Foundation for Human
Rights, Poland; the Association for the Defence of Human Rights in
Romania – the Helsinki Committee, Romania; the Peace Institute,
Slovenia; and Rights International, Spain