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Christopher Clapham is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University, and editor of The Journal of Modern African Studies. His main academic interests are in the politics of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa, and of Liberia and Sierra Leone. Recent publications include Africa and the International System (1996), African Guerrillas (edited, 1998), and Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement in Africa: Methods of Conflict Prevention (co-edited, 2000).
Tony Clayton was on the staff of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, from 1965 to 1999. His publications include The Zanzibar Revolution and its Aftermath, C. Hurst, 1981; France, Soldiers and Africa, Brasseys, 1988; The Wave of French Decolonization, Longman, 1994; and Frontiersmen, Warfare in Africa since 1950, UCL, 1998. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of War and Society, De Montfort University.
Gerry Cleaver is a lecturer in the School of International Studies and Law, Coventry University. He is also a member of the Universitys African Studies Centre where he is studying for his PhD on the practical problems associated with peacekeeping in Africa, a subject on which he has recently published articles. He teaches both African and Third World politics at undergraduate level as well as a course on African peacekeeping in the Schools MA programme.
Oliver Furley is an Honorary Research Fellow and formerly Head of the Department of Politics and History at Coventry University. Previously he taught for many years at Makerere University, Uganda, and also in the universities of St Andrews, Edinburgh, the West Indies and Duke University, North Carolina. He is co-author with Tom Watson of The History of Education in East Africa, NOK Publishers, USA, 1978, and of Ugandas Retreat from Turmoil, Centre for Security and Conflict Studies, 1987. He has contributed chapters and articles on East African history, politics and conflict studies. He is editor of Conflict in Africa, Tauris Academic Studies, 1995.
Jeremy Levitt is Assistant Professor of Law at Depaul University College of Law. He is also Research Associate at the African Security Unit, Centre for Defence Studies, Kings College, London; and Research Fellow at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland-College Park. He is a public international lawyer and political scientist with area expertise in public international law, conflict studies, state dynamics, and regional collective security in Africa. He has published several articles and chapters on causes of conflict, humanitarian intervention, peacekeeping, regional collective security, armed conflict, and democratisation in Africa.
Mel McNulty is a Senior Research Fellow at Nottingham Trent University. He worked previously at the University of Portsmouth where he completed a PhD on French military intervention in Africa. He has published on Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and has worked recently on democratisation and the role of the military in Senegal and Cote DIvoire. He is currently editing Conflict in Africa: An Encyclopaedia, which is due for publication in 2002.
Norrie McQueen is head of the Politics department at the University of Dundee. He was previously Reader in International Relations at the University of Sunderland and his overseas experience includes posts in Australia and Papua New Guinea. He was a cooperante in the education service in Mozambique in the years following independence. His publications include books on the decolonization of Portuguese Africa and on United Nations peacekeeping. He is currently working on the post-independence identity of Portuguese-speaking Africa.
Simon Massey is a PhD student in the School of International Studies and Law at Coventry University where he completed his MA. His main research area is the theoretical and moral bases for peacekeeping operations in sub-Saharan Africa. He has published articles on this subject as well as on the politics of Chad and Guinea-Bissau.
Roy May is the Director of the African Studies Centre, Coventry University. He is also Head of International and Political Studies. He teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in African politics, development, aid and Third World politics. His original interest in the area came from service with the Royal West African Frontier Force in Sierra Leone. He has published widely on Chad, the Franco-African relationship, the role of NGOs, militarism and peacekeeping in Africa.
Roger Southall is Professor of Political Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa. He has previously worked in universities in Uganda, Lesotho, Canada and the United Kingdom. He has published extensively on Africa and South Africa, and is editor of a forthcoming collection on Opposition and Democracy in South Africa which is to be published by Frank Cass. He is Managing Editor of The Journal of Contemporary African Studies.
Peter Woodward is Professor of Politics at the University of Reading, and was formerly at the University of Khartoum. His publications on north-east Africa include Condominium and Sudanese Nationalism, Rex Collings, 1979; Sudan: The Unstable State, Lynn Rienner, 1990; Nasser, Longman, 1992; and Horn of Africa: State Politics and International Relations, Tauris, 1996. He was Editor of African Affairs, the Journal of the Royal African Society, from 1986 to 1997, and Editor of British Documents on Foreign Affairs: Africa, University Press of America, from 1994 to 2000.
