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Fiona Adamson is an Assistant Professor of International Relations and Director of the Program in International Public Policy at University College London. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University, and a BA in International Relations from Stanford University. She has also held research fellowships with the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at Harvard University, the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Adamson's research interests are in theories of international relations, international security, transnational and non-state actors, migration and diaspora politics, and globalization and democratization.
Chadwick F. Alger is Mershon Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Emeritus, The Ohio State University. His research and teaching is focused on three themes: (1) the UN system of some thirty organizations, with special interest in the roles of NGOs, (2) the world relations of people in local communities and (3) the development of long term strategies for peacebuilding. He is editor of The Future of the UN System: Potential for the Twenty-First Century, UN University Press, 1998. He has served as President of the International Studies Association (1978-79) and Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association (1983-87).
JoAnn Fagot Aviel is Professor and Chair of International Relations at San Francisco State University. She has published numerous articles in comparative foreign policy and international relations, including 'Placing Human Rights and Environmental Issues on ASEAN's Agenda: The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations' ( Asian Journal of Political Science ) and co-editing Multilateral Diplomacy and the United Nations Today (Westview Press, 1999).
David Backer is an Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William and Mary. During the 2005-06 academic year, he is on leave as a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Stanford University Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. He previously taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, from which he received his PhD in 2004. His research focuses on victims' attitudes in relation to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He has also published articles on the role of non-state actors in transitional justice processes, the dilemmas of constructive engagement by NGOs in Liberia and the dynamics of episodes of ethnic violence in Rwanda and Burundi. During 2000-01, he worked in the Transition and Reconciliation Programme at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, a South African NGO with which he remains affiliated as a Research Associate.
Steven Barmazel is a freelance journalist based in Santa Rosa, California. He worked as the Karachi correspondent for AsiaWeek in the early 1990s, where he visited Orangi and Orangi Pilot Project many times. After returning to the United States, he was associated for several years with an NGO that worked to improve landmine-clearing techniques and equipment.
Susan Burgerman is a Washington, DC-based consultant on international political development. Previously, she was Associate Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University. Her publications include Moral Victories: How Activists Provoke Multilateral Action (Cornell University Press, 2001); 'Building the Peace by Mandating Reform: United Nations-Mediated Human Rights Agreements in El Salvador and Guatemala', Latin American Perspectives (May 2000); and a contributing author to Implementing US Human Rights Policy (Debra Liang-Fenton, editor, US Institute of Peace Press, 2004).
Henry F. Carey is Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. He is author or editor of five books, including: Romania since 1989: Politics, Economics and Society (Lexington Books 2004). Mitigating Conflict: the Role of NGOs, special issue of International Peacekeeping (co-editor with Oliver P. Richmond, Frank Cass, 2003), National Reconciliation in Eastern Europe (Columbia University Press, 2003), and Dilemmas of NGO Peacebuilding Among Former Enemies (London: Palgrave, 2006), forthcoming. He is chair of the international law section of the International Studies Association.
Clark Efaw is Program Officer for CARE. Formerly leading an effort in the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources on a rights-based approach to development, he is now part of CARE's Impact Measurement and Learning Team (IMLT).
Joanna Fisher has worked in the NGO sector in Rwanda during the past decade.
Felice D. Gaer directs the Jacob Blaustein Institute of Human Rights and was previous Executive Director of the International League for Human Rights. She is author of numerous academic articles and manuscripts on human rights, NGOs and the UN. She is also the US-nominated, independent expert in Geneva on the Torture Committee, which reviews states parties' reports under the International Torture Convention.
Michael Gordon Jackson received his PhD in Politics from Brandeis University in 1991. Since 1992, he has been working and teaching at Brown University. His research interests include the study of national security issues and international peacekeeping.
Heather D. Heckel is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bridgewater College in Virginia. Before becoming a professor, she worked with youth from low income communities through a non-profit organization and as a public school teacher. Her previously published work includes a study of NGOs and the campaign against corruption. She received her PhD from Georgia State University in 2005, with a dissertation on transnational advocacy movements and child rights.
