Social Science Research Council

SUMANTRA BOSE
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Sumantra Bose is a reader in comparative politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His core expertise is in the challenges of conflict management and democratization in societies gripped by protracted ethno-national divisions. He is author of Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace (Harvard University Press, 2003), Bosnia after Dayton: Nationalist Partition and International Intervention (Oxford University Press, 2002), The Challenge in Kashmir: Democracy, Self-Determination and a Just Peace (Sage Publications, 1997), and States, Nations, Sovereignty: Sri Lanka, India and the Tamil Eelam Movement (Sage, 1994). He is currently working on a comparative study of cities divided on ethno-national faultlines in the Balkans, the South Asian subcontinent, the eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East. Bose received his PhD in political science from Columbia University.

MARC CHERNICK
Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA

Marc Chernick is visiting associate professor in the Department of Government and the Center for Latin American Studies at Georgetown University, and is director of the Georgetown - United Nations project on early warning and conflict prevention in Latin America. He previously taught and served as Acting Director of the Latin American Studies programs at John Hopkins and Assistant Director of the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University. He has received grants from the United States Institute of Peace, Fulbright Commission, MacArthur Foundation and Guggenheim Foundation, and has been a professor at the University of Los Andes and the National University, both in Bogotá. Over the past few years, he has worked as a consultant to the World Bank, the United Nations and the Swiss Government on issues of peace and conflict resolution in Colombia, and for USAID on issues of democracy and human rights in Colombia, Bolivia, Mexico, El Salvador, Peru, Zambia and Nigeria. He holds a PhD in political science from Columbia University and has written widely on drug-trafficking, political violence and negotiated settlement to armed conflict in Colombia and in the Andean region. He is currently completing a book on the Colombian peace process.

DOGU ERGIL
Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

Dogu Ergil is professor of political science at Ankara University. He earned his advanced degrees from the University of Oklahoma and the State University of New York, Binghampton. He is the author of several works on the Turkish political system, nationalism, conflict, and conflict resolution. His 1995 survey of the Kurds living in Turkey was the first of its kind and opened a debate on the goals of the PKK and the Turkish state with respect to the aspirations of the Kurdish people. He has written widely on the PKK and their operations in the popular press and in academic journals. He has founded TOSAM, an NGO dedicated to engaging and educating the public on the issues facing Turkey, such as the Kurdish question. He was a fellow of the National Endowment for Democracy in 1999-2000.

JEROEN GUNNING
Department of International Politics, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK

Jeroen Gunning has been a lecturer in international politics at the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales since September 2002. He holds a degree in Politics of the Middle East (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) and obtained his PhD from the University of Durham. He has previously held a British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. Gunning's past experience includes consultant work for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London and for Oxford Analytica in Oxford. Among Gunning's research interests are Middle Eastern politics, political Islam, Arab-Israeli conflict, democratisation, social movement theory and critical terrorism studies. Gunning is the author of the following publications: Hamas in Perspective: Pluralism, Democracy and the Islamic Movement in Palestine (to be published by Cambridge University Press provisionally, due 2003), "Re-Thinking Western Constructs of Islamism—Pluralism, Democracy and the Theory and Praxis of the Islamic Movement in the Gaza Strip" (PhD thesis, Centre for Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, University of Durham, 2000), "Hezbollah Re-Appraised—A Study into Hezbollah's Changing Public and Private Transcripts in post-Ta'if Lebanon" (masters dissertation, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1995).

THEODOR HANF
Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for Socio Cultural Research, Frankfurt, Germany

Theodor Hanf is co-director of the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute for Socio Cultural Research, Professor of Sociology at the German Institute for International Educational Research in Frankfurt, and Honorary Professor of Political Science at the University of Freiburg. His research interests include education and development, ethnic conflict, and problems of democratic transition. Among his regional specialties are Africa, Asia and Near East.

MARIANNE HEIBERG
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway

Marianne Heiberg is senior research associate at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics in 1981. Her previous employment positions were with the LSE, the Peace Research Institute in Oslo (PRIO), UNRWA, and UNESCO. Among Heiberg's research interests are ethnic conflicts, political violence, the Middle East, Mediterranean basin, political modernisation, peacekeeping operations, and post-war reconstruction. She has worked as a consultant to the UN, World Bank, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry, among other organisations. Heiberg has conducted prolonged fieldwork in Spain, the Sahel, Lebanon, West Bank, and Gaza. She has authored several books including The Making of the Basque Nation; Palestinian Society in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Arab Jerusalem; and Subduing Sovereignty: Sovereignty and the Right to Intervene.

DANI WADADA NABUDERE
Afrika Study Centre, Mbale, Uganda

Professor Nabudere is a barrister of law by training (Lincolns Inn, London, 1960-63) and a holder of the London University degree in law (1963). Between 1974-1979, he taught law at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania where he became Associate Professor. In 1979-80, he was Attorney General/Minister of Justice and later minister of Culture, Rehabilitation and Community Development in the interim post-Amin government in Uganda. In 1985-86, he was a Visiting Professor in Political Science at the University of Zimbabwe. Between 1983-85, he was president of the African Association of Political Science-AAPS and in 1985-88, a vice-president of the International Political Science Association-IPSA. Professor Nabudere is the author of many books and monographs. He has also edited several books. His main works are: The Political Economy of Imperialism (1976), Zed Press, London; Imperialism in East Africa-in two volumes (1980), Zed Press, London; Imperialism and Revolution in Uganda (1980), Onyx Press, London and recently Africa in the new Millenium: Towards a Post-Traditional Renaissance, University of South Africa Press (forthcoming). Professor Nabudere has been involved in a series of research projects on violence and conflict in Eastern Africa. These include: The Transformation of Agro-pastoral conflict and violence in North-Eastern Uganda (1999-2003) funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation; The Hidden War-Forgotten People which was researched and written for the Human Rights and Peace Centre-HURIPEC, Makerere University, Kampala Uganda and the Liu Institute, British Columbia, Canada, which dealt with the war in Northern Uganda. He is at the moment involved in a research project on Historical Memory and Reconciliation in Uganda. Professor Nabudere is currently Executive Director of Afrika Study Centre, Mbale, Uganda and promoter of the Marcus-Garvey Pan-African Institute.

CAROLYN NORDSTROM
Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Carolyn Nordstrom is an associate professor and fellow at the Department of Anthropology and at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She is also the recipient of the 2001-2002 Research and Writing Grant from the Program on Global Security and Sustainability of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Nordstrom's books include A Different Kind of War Story (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, reprinted 2000), Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (Carolyn Nordstrom and Antonius Robben, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), and The Paths to Domination, Resistance and Terror (Carolyn Nordstrom and JoAnn Martin, eds. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). Her newest work, Shadow Powers and War: the Legal, the Illicit, and the Invisible, is currently at press (University of California). Nordstrom has authored some four dozen articles on war, peace, and economy (with sub-foci on theory, gender, children, globalization, and il/lict economy/powers) and many conference papers. Nordstrom has conducted extensive fieldwork for more than ten years, with a focus (1980s) on Southern Asia and Southern Africa (1990s to present).

BRENDAN O'DUFFY
Queen Mary, University of London, UK

O'Duffy is a seniorlecturer in politics at Queen Mary College, University of London, specializing in the study of nationalism and ethnic conflict regulation as well as west European politics. He has published articles and chapters on political violence in Northern Ireland, electoral systems in western liberal democracies, and public opinion among member states of the European Union. His current research focuses on comparative 'peace processes' in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and Sri Lanka; federalism in multi-ethnic states; and the relationship between nationalism and European integration. O'Duffy is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association for the study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) and an editor of the journal Nations and Nationalism (ASEN and Blackwell).

BRENDAN O'LEARY
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Brendan O'Leary is director of the Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, Stanley I. Sheerr Endowed Term Chair in the Social Sciences, and professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. He was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where his PhD won the Robert McKenzie Prize. He is the author, co-author and editor of 11 books, including Right-Sizing the State: The Politics of Moving Borders (with Ian S. Lustick and Tom Callaghy editors), The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation and Explaining Northern Ireland, and of numerous articles in learned journals, books, magazines and newspapers. His fields of research and expertise are nationalism, national self-determination, national and ethnic conflict regulation, electoral systems, federal and devolutionary governments, and theories of the state. For more than a decade he has been a political and constitutional advisor to Irish, British and American politicians, public officials and non-governmental organizations working on the Irish peace process.

KIRSTEN SCHULZE
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK

Kirsten Schulze is a senior lecturer in international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. After receiving her DPhil from Oxford University in 1994, Schulze worked as a lecturer in politics at Queen's University, Belfast. Her current research interests include security sector reform in Indonesia, ethnic conflict and conflict regulation in divided territories, peace processes and normalization of relations and nationalism. She has authored a number of articles and chapters on conflict and conflict resolution in Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Indonesia. Her books include The Jews of Lebanon: Between Coexistence and Conflict (2001) and Israel's Covert Diplomacy in Lebanon (1998). Her academic expertise has also found practical application in the form of consultancy work for the British Embassy in Jakarta, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and others.

ANDREW SILKE
Office and Policing group, Home Office, London, UK

(BSc Hons, AFBPsS, PhD), Andrew Silke has a background in forensic psychology and has worked both in academia and for government. He has published extensively on terrorists and terrorism in journals, books and the popular press. His most recent books on the subject are Terrorists, Victims & Society: Psychological Perspectives on Terrorism and Its Consequences (Wiley 2003) and Research on Terrorism: Trends, Achievements and Failures (Frank Cass in press). He is an honorary senior research associate of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews and is a fellow of the University of Leicester. His work has taken him to Northern Ireland, the Middle East and Latin America. He is a member of the International Association for Counter-terrorism and Security Professionals and serves on the United Nations Roster of Terrorism Experts.

HARALD OLAV SKAR
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo, Norway

Harald Skar is presently holding the position of general manager for Himal Power Limited, the largest independent Power producer in Nepal. Skar, a Norwegian native, was previously working as a Deputy Director for the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, a national think tank established by the Norwegian Parliament in 1960. Skar has also served as Vice-President for StatkraftGrøner, and Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Skar has, for the last three years, been a member of Oslo City Council (section 27). During his time with the ILO, he was responsible for the establishment of large-scale projects in the Informal Urban Sector (SIU), especially for the city of Guayaquil (second largest in Ecuador, 4 million people) and the capital of Peru, Lima (8 million inhabitants). His skills include project management, integrated water resources and watershed planning, environmental impact assessment, integrated development planning, socio anthropological studies and research, and social impact assessment. Sklar has extensive work experience in the following countries: Nepal, Peru, India, Bolivia, England, USA, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Moldova, Estonia, and Russia. Skar has authored various books and articles in professional journals, including two books on Nepal, and one book on Peru. Skar was educated at the University of Oslo, Northern Illinois University (as Fulbright Scholar), and he competed his PhD in social anthropology at Oxford University in the UK. He will be resuming his position as senior research associate at NUPI in January 2003.

CARLA TAMANGO
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lima, Peru

Carla Tamango, a specialist in migration and development policies, is currently working as consultant for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Peru. Tamagno is an anthropologist from the National University of Central Peru, and holds an MA in anthropology from the Pontific Catholic University of Peru, and a PhD in Rural Development from the University of Wageningen, The Netherlands. She has worked since 1991 in the implementation of programmes for the protection and promotion of populations displaced as a result of political violence in the Central Region of Peru. Tamagno is a member of CERES and of the Latin American Studies Association in the US.