The project benefits from the guidance of an International Scientific Committee composed of 20 members, half of whom are renewed every two years. These members are appointed by the Director General in respect of the representation of different regions, disciplines and gender.
The role of this advisory body is to advise UNESCO on the implementation of the project, in particular with regard to the development of educational material and programmes, research into various aspects of the slave trade and slavery and the formation of new partnerships to promote its objectives.
Members of the Committee
New members
- Myriam Cottias (France, Martinique), Professor, École des hautes études en sciences sociales
- Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Senegal), Professor, Columbia University
- Nancy Krieger, (United States of America), Professor, Harvard University
- Afua Cooper (Canada), Professor, Dalhousie University, Faculty of Science and Arts
- Amové Mévégué (Cameroon), Director of the pan-African television channel Ubiznews
- Hafiz Ali Abdulla (Qatar), Museum Director
- Chris Cyrille (France/Guadeloupe), Poet, art critic and independent curator
- Andreiza Anaya (Colombia), Journalist and expert in ethnic communication
Former members of the Committee whose mandate is ongoing
- Vijay Teelock (Mauritius), Historian and author
- Jane Landers (United States of America), Historian
- Rina Cáceres (Costa Rica), Director of the Diaspora Studies Programme
- Doudou Diène (Senegal), Chairman of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Burundi
- Ana Lucia Araujo (Brazil), Professor, Howard University
- Sonjah Stanley N. Niaah (Jamaica), Lecturer, University of the West Indies
- Chapurukha M. Kusimba (Kenya), Archaeologist
- Abubakar Babajo Sani (Nigeria), Professor, Umaru Musa Yar'adua University
- Gerardo Maloney (Panama), Sociologist and writer
- Abdi M. Kusow (Somalia), Professor, Iowa State University
- Aurelia Martin Casares (Spain), Professor, University of Granada
Reports
- Final Report, Republic of Mauritius, 27-29 November 2017 / Declaration of the International Scientific Committee of the Slave Route Project: resistance, liberty, heritage
- Final Report, Cabo Verde, 26-27 October 2015
- Final Report, Mexico City, Mexico, 19-21 November 2014 / Recommendations
- Final Report, Bogota and Cartagenade las Indias, 28 February - 3 March 2011
- Final Report, Paris, France, 17-18 February 2009
- Final Report, Paris, France, 22-24 February 2006
- Final Report, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 17-21 December 2001 (in French)
- Final Report, Palermo, Italy, 21-23 September 2000
- Final Report, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-12 December 1998 (in French only)
- Final Report, Cabinda, Angola, 6-8 November 1996
- Final Report, Matanzas, Cuba, 4-6 December 1995
- Final Report, Ouidah, Benin, 6-8 September 1994
Launch of the project by the Director General of UNESCO, President Nicéphore Soglo of Benin and members of the International Scientific Committee.
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