Patricia Gossman is senior researcher on Afghanistan. Prior to joining HRW, she was Director of the Afghanistan Program at the International Center for Transitional Justice on Afghanistan, and was the founder and director of the Afghanistan Justice Project, an OSI-funded project to document war crimes committed during the Afghan conflict, 1978-2001. She was Senior Researcher for South Asia at Human Rights Watch in the 1990s, covering not only Afghanistan, but India, Pakistan and Nepal. She received her doctorate in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and is widely published on human rights issues in the region. https://www.newsdeeply.com/peacebuilding/contributor/patricia-gossman/rss en Truth, Accountability & Reconciliation Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:20:00 +0000 Patricia Gossman https://www.newsdeeply.com/peacebuilding/articles/2018/06/22/australias-possible-role-in-providing-justice-for-afghanistan-war-crimes https://www.newsdeeply.com/peacebuilding/articles/2018/06/22/australias-possible-role-in-providing-justice-for-afghanistan-war-crimes Australia must protect witnesses and remain transparent while it investigates members of its elite special forces for allegedly committing crimes against civilians in Afghanistan, writes Human Rights Watch senior researcher Patricia Gossman.