Native name Johannes Bax Residence Vilnius, Lithuania | Role Human rights activists Name Robert Voren | |
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Born July 25, 1959 (age 64)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada ( 1959-07-25 ) Citizenship Canada, Netherlands, Lithuania Institutions Global Initiative on Psychiatry, Hilversum, Netherlands;
Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia;
Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania;
Royal College of Psychiatrists, London, Britain;
Ukrainian Psychiatric Association, Kiev, Ukraine Known for his Russian studies, human rights activism and participation in struggle against political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union Notable awards from Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands for his work as a human rights activist Fields Political Science, Psychiatry Books Cold War in Psychiatr, Undigested Past: The Holocaus, On Dissidents and Mad, On the Boundary of Two W | ||
Alma mater University of Amsterdam | ||
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Robert van Voren (publishing pseudonym of Johannes Baks, Dutch: Johannes Bax, born 7 July 1959, Montreal, Canada) is a Dutch human rights activist and political scientist.
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He is a professor of Soviet and post-Soviet studies in the Ilia State University in Tbilisi (Georgia) and in the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas (Lithuania) as well as Chief Executive of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry.
Biography
He was born on 7 July 1959, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and graduated from Amsterdam University in 1986. In the 1980s, he worked at the Bukovsky Foundation based in Amsterdam and since 1989 was the director of its successor, the Second World Center. Since 1980, he had regularly visited the Soviet Union including Ukraine and collected information on repression of dissidents, as well as smuggling Samizdat publications to the west. In 1986, he became Chief Executive of the Global Initiative on Psychiatry. He is also a Honorary Fellow of the British Royal College of Psychiatrists and Honorary Member of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association. In 2005, he was knighted by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands for his work as a human rights activist. He has a Lithuanian citizenship since 11 February 2003 and lives in Vilnius.
Robert van Voren has published over a dozen books. His works cover political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union and China and reforms of mental health in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Ukraine, Georgia. Robert van Voren's contribution to reform of forensic psychiatry in states of the former Soviet Union is widely recognized.
In 2015, he commented the Ukrainian crisis and the Russian military intervention in the Syrian Civil War.