Authors

Dekha Ibrahim Abdi

Dekha Ibrahim Abdi is an independent consultant based in Mombasa, Kenya, with over fifteen years of experience advising and working in peace and conflict transformation. In 2007 she was honoured for her work with the Alternative Nobel Prize, one year later she received the Rotary Award for her contribution to peace in Kenya during the post-election violence. In the 1990s, she was active in Wajir as one of the founders of a peace initiative, mediating between people of the warring clans to end civil war. Currently she is developing a Peace Education resource guide for a variety of audiences from kindergarten to university, including community groups as well as policy makers. Dekha Ibrahim Abdi also serves on the Advisory Board of the Berghof Foundation for Peace Support. (As at: July 2008.)

Mary B. Anderson

Mary B. Anderson is President of Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA) based in Cambridge, USA. She is an economist who specialises in promoting development strategies that originate in an assessment of existing local, national capacities. She has worked with many multi-lateral, bi-lateral and local development agencies in the areas of gender analysis, education and education policy, refugee programming, and disaster prevention, mitigation and development. Since 1995, she has launched and directed CDA's Local Capacities for Peace Project to learn more about the relationships between humanitarian and development assistance and conflict. She authored "Do No Harm: How Aid can Support Peace or War" (Lynne Rienner, 1999), which sets out the lessons learned from the Local Capacities for Peace Project. She also organised the Reflecting on Peace Practice Project (RPP) and, together with Lara Olson, summarised the findings of RPP in the study "Confronting War: Critical Lessons for Peace Practitioners" (CDA, 2003). (Last updated: March 2006.)

Olu Arowobusoye

Olu Arowobusoye is a former Nigerian career diplomat. He has worked with International Alert and Comic Relief in the UK, before taking up his current position as the Director of Humanitarian Affairs at the Office of the Deputy Executive Secretary for Political Affairs, Defence and Security of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). (As at: March 2006.)

Alexander Austin

Alexander Austin works as an independent consultant and analyst in peace and conflict management. His areas of interest are transnational organised crime, human trafficking and drugs in relation to dynamics of ethnopolitical conflict. In addition, he is interested in exploring the unique roles and responsibilities of different actors all working towards the constructive transformation of conflict. He has worked for various organisations, including the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, the Foreign & Commonwealth Office (UK), the German development agency GTZ and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Most recently, he served as Programme Manager for Network Building and Regional Liaison with a focus on Eastern and Southeast Europe with the European Centre for Conflict Prevention in The Hague, Netherlands. (Last updated: Oct 2009.)

Muhammad Najib Azca

Muhammad Najib Azca is a Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, University of Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Indonesia and researcher at UGM's Center for Security and Peace Studies (CSPS). He recently completed his MA at the Southeast Asia Graduate Program, Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University (ANU), Canberra. The title of his thesis is "The Role of the Security Forces in Communal Conflict: The Case of Ambon". He is also the author of "Hegemoni Tentara (The Hegemony of the Military)" (LkiS 1998). His article (co-authored with Mohtar Mas’oed and Rizal Panggabean) "Social resources for civility and participation: The case of Yogyakarta, Indonesia" was published in "The Politics of Multiculturalism: Pluralism and Citizenship in Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia" edited by Robert W. Hefner (University of Hawaii, 2001). As a former journalist, he worked for many years at DeTIK weekly, and as part time editor of Adil Weekly and DeTAK weekly. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Eileen F. Babbitt

Eileen F. Babbitt is Professor of International Conflict Management Practice, director of the International Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program and co-director of the Program on Human Rights and Conflict Resolution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA. She is also a faculty associate of the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School. Dr Babbitt’s latest publications include "Human Rights and Conflict Resolution in Context: Colombia, Sierra Leone, and Northern Ireland" (Syracuse University Press, 2009), co-edited with Ellen Lutz; and "Negotiating Self-Determination" (Lexington Books, 2007), co-edited with Hurst Hannum. She holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. (As at: May 2010.)

Günther Baechler

Günther Baechler currently serves as a Special Adviser for Peace Building in Sudan and most recently served as a Special Adviser for Peace Building in Nepal for the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. He studied art and history of art in Basel, Switzerland and political science at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He was a research fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies at the University of Hamburg, Germany and completed his PhD in political science in 1997 (University of Bremen, Germany). In 1988, he became Director of the Swiss Peace Foundation, while working part-time as a researcher at the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Analysis at the ETH Zurich. In 1996, he was a visiting research fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs (CSIA) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. He also received training in mediation and negotiation at the Harvard Negotiation Program and at the Center for Dispute Settlement in Cambridge, USA. Before accepting his Special Adviser posts, he was Director of the Conflict Prevention and Transformation Unit at the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (DEZA). (Last updated: July 2008.)

Nicole Ball

Nicole Ball is Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Development and Conflict Management at the University of Maryland, USA. She has edited a handbook on security sector governance for African practitioners written by African security and development specialists (Centre for Democracy and Development, Lagos, 2004) and has worked closely with the Clingendael Institute (Netherlands) and the Netherlands Foreign Ministry to develop and test a security sector institutional assessment tool. She has also co-authored a background paper on accountability in the security sector (with Michael Brzoska, Kees Kingma and Herbert Wulf) for the UNDP Human Development Report 2002, as well as a background paper (with Dylan Hendrickson) that informed the policy statement and policy paper endorsed by OECD development ministers at the OECD Development Assistance Committee's April 2004 High Level Meeting. Other publications include: "Transforming Security Sectors: The IMF and World Bank Approaches" and "The Challenge of Rebuilding War Torn Societies", in "Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict", edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson and Pamela Aall (USIP Press, 2001). (Last updated: March 2006.)

Karen Ballentine

Karen Ballentine is an independent consultant on the political economy of armed conflict. In 2004–05, she was Senior Consultant for the Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies. From 2000 to 2003, she directed the Economic Agendas in Civil Wars Program at the International Peace Academy. Previously, she has served as a Research Associate for the Commission on the Prevention of Deadly Conflict at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, USA, as rapporteur for the Stockholm Process on the Implementation of Targeted Sanctions, and as a consultant for the UN Global Compact, the Human Security Report, and the Millennium Development Goals. She is co-author (with Jack Snyder) of "Nationalism and the Marketplace of Ideas" (in International Security, 26/2, 1996); and co-editor (with Jake Sherman) of "The Political Economy of Armed Conflict: Beyond Greed and Grievance" (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003), and (with Heiko Nitzschke) of "Profitting from Peace: Managing the Resource Dimensions of War" (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005). (Last updated: Jan 2008.)

Rudi Ballreich

Rudi Ballreich is an independent consultant and trainer in organisational and personnel development. He focuses on processes of change, strategy development and conflict resolution, as well as training in group dynamics, team work, change and conflict management. In 1998, he became a partner at Trigon, a development consultancy firm. In 2002, he co-founded Trigon Munich. He studied arts and pedagogy, and worked as a teacher and in school management for 14 years. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Adam Barbolet

Adam Barbolet is a Senior Programme Officer at International Alert, focusing on the conflict/development nexus. Prior to this, he was peacebuilding advisor for an international NGO in Kathmandu, Nepal. (Last updated: March 2006.)

David Becker

David Becker PhD is a psychologist and co-founder of the Office for Psychosocial Issues (OPSI) at the International Academy for Innovative Education, Psychology and Economy gGmbH (INA) at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. He also serves as a consultant for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) on trauma and related issues in regions of crisis and conflict. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Ozsel Beleli

Ozsel Beleli is currently pursuing a post-graduate degree, while also being involved with community development work in Turkey, her home country. She was a Program Associate with the Central & Southern Africa Program at Search for Common Ground, Washington DC, USA. She also has worked in Turkey on a governmental regional development project for vulnerable groups, before joining Catholic Relief Services on their peacebuilding programme in Northern Uganda. She has a BSc in International Politics from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Christine Bigdon

Christine Bigdon is a political scientist (MA), post-graduate in agricultural and rural development, and PhD candidate at the Department of Political Sciences, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. In 2005, she joined Capacity Building International, Germany (InWent, Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH) where she concentrates on democratisation and administrative reform. Her research interest focuses on decentralisation, local governance and conflict transformation, with special reference to Sri Lanka. Between 2000 and 2003, she worked as Resident Representative of the Colombo Branch Office, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg. (Last updated: March 2006.)

David Bloomfield

David Bloomfield is Chief Executive of the Glencree Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Ireland. From 2004-2007, he was Director of the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management in Berlin, Germany and served as co-editor of the "Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation". He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where he worked throughout the 1980s as director of two reconciliation NGOs, and as a trainer in practical conflict resolution skills. He read for an MA in Peace Studies (1991) and a PhD in Conflict Resolution (1995) at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, UK. He has held research and teaching posts at the universities of Harvard, Ulster and Bradford. From 2001 to 2004 he was Director of the Democracy-Building and Conflict Management Programme for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in Stockholm. He has written three books on the Northern Irish peace process as well as other articles and chapters on a range of conflict issues. Most recently, he was senior editor for "Reconciliation After Violent Conflict: A Handbook" (IDEA, 2003). (Last updated: Jan 2008.)

Volker Boege

Volker Boege PhD is a Senior Fellow at the Australian Center for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland. Current areas of interest include: transboundary water governance, natural resources and violent conflicts, post-conflict peacebuilding, and governance in hybrid political orders, with a regional focus on the South Pacific and Southeast Asia. His involvement with peace and conflict studies goes back more than twenty years, and includes work at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH), the University of Hamburg’s Research Unit on Wars, Armament and Development (FRKE), the Institute for Development and Peace (INEF) at the University of Duisburg, and the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), all in Germany. He has a particular interest in conflicts in the Pacific Region, which he has researched for many years. His numerous publications include the recent work "Muschelgeld und Blutdiamanten. Traditionale Konfliktbearbeitung in zeitgenössischen Gewaltkonflikten" (DÜI Hamburg, 2004). (Last updated: Oct 2009.)

Goran Bozicevic

Goran Bozicevic is co-founder and current director of Miramida Centar – Regional Peacebuilding Exchange in Groznjan-Grisignana (Istria, Croatia). A natural-science teacher by vocation, he has been active in peacebuilding since 1993, working all across the post-Yugoslav region since 1996. As a trainer in nonviolent conflict transformation, he works in divided communities and with people with different values, beginning with the Volunteer Project Pakrac, which he co-founded and coordinated (1993-1995). In 1996, he co-founded the Centre for Peace Studies in Zagreb, of which he also was the founding director (1996-1999) and where he continues to teach. He has been actively involved in dealing with the past issues since 2002, when he started serving as the representative in the post-Yugoslav countries of Quaker Peace & Social Witness’s Dealing with the Past Programme (2002-2006). (As at: Jan 2009.)

M. Anne Brown

M. Anne Brown PhD is Senior Research Fellow at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS) at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Previously, she worked as a diplomat in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Her current fields of work concern questions of political community across division. She has published, among others, "Human Rights and the Borders of Suffering: The Promotion of Human Rights in International Politics" (Manchester University Press, 2002) and the edited volume "Security and Development in the Pacific Islands. Social Resilience in Emerging States" (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007). (As at: Oct 2008.)

Kenneth Bush

Kenneth Bush is a founding Professor of the Conflict Studies Programme at St. Paul University, Ottawa, Canada. He received his PhD in International Relations and Comparative Politics from Cornell University, USA. From 1998-2004, he was a Geneva-based Research Fellow with the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies, Dalhousie University. He also has worked with UNICEF, OECD DAC, the World Bank, SIDA, DFID, DFAIT, CIDA, IDRC, and a host of NGOs on the challenges of peacebuilding. He served as Special Advisor on Humanitarian Issues to the Canadian Government when it held a seat on the UN Security Council (1998-2000). He has published widely on issues of peacebuilding, identity-based conflict, and bad governance. He is chairman of the Garden Path Campaign, member of the Consultative Group to the Butterfly Garden in Batticaloa, Sri Lanka and member of the International Advisory Board for the Center for Research on Globalization and Democratic Governance, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Marina Caparini

Marina Caparini is a Canadian Senior Fellow at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), where she coordinates their working groups on internal security (i.e. police, intelligence, border management) and civil society. She is also a doctoral candidate at the Department of War Studies, King’s College, University of London, UK. Her recent publications include: "Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans" in the SIPRI Yearbook 2004 (Oxford University Press); "Media, Security and Governance" (Nomos, 2004); and "Transforming Police in Central and Eastern Europe: Process and Progress" (Lit Verlag, 2004), co-edited with Otwin Marenin. She is currently working on a project investigating the challenges of regulating private military companies. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Diana Chigas

Diana Chigas is co-director of the Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP) project at CDA Collaborative Learning Projects and professor of the practice of negotiation and conflict resolution at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, USA. At CDA she has been concentrating on RPP’s engagement with the Balkans, especially Kosovo, and led an assessment of the impact of peacebuilding policies and activities on the violence that occurred in 2004 in Kosovo. Prior to joining CDA, Diana Chigas worked as a facilitator, trainer and consultant in negotiation, dialogue and conflict resolution, including on preventive diplomacy in the OSCE, on conflict management in Cyprus, on Track II discussions in El Salvador, in South Africa, Ecuador and Peru and in the Georgia/South Ossetia peace process. (As at: Jan 2009.)

Kevin Clements

Kevin Clements is Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand since 2009. Some of his prior positions include: Foundation Director at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Queensland, Australia; Secretary General of International Alert, UK; Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) at George Mason University, Virginia, USA; Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University, Canberra. In the mid 1980s, he was Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland and a member of the New Zealand Delegation to the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. He is also a past president of the International Peace Research Association and was the inaugural President of the European Peace Building Liaison Organisation in Brussels, Belgium and a Board Member of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention based in Utrecht, Netherlands. He is currently on the Editorial Boards of Peace Review, Global Change, Peace and Security, and Peace and Policy. He has been an advisor on defence, security and conflict issues to a range of governmental and non-governmental organisations in Australasia, the United States and Europe. His research interests centre around development and peacebuilding, the role of regional and multilateral organisations in conflict prevention, security sector reform, confronting terror non-violently and conflict and peace theory. (Last updated: Jan 2009.)

Marwan Darweish

Marwan Darweish is senior lecturer at Coventry University’s Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies (UK). He has wide-ranging experience as an academic, researcher and lecturer, as well as in leading/facilitating training courses on conflict transformation and peace processes. He has extensive experience across the Middle East region and a special interest in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict and ongoing peace negotiations. He previously worked as a peace and conflict advisor at Responding to Conflict (RTC), where he took on a range of conflict consultancies including work involving the Horn, East and Central African countries. (As at: May 2010.)

Thomas Diez

Thomas Diez is Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He previously taught at the University of Birmingham and was a research fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute. Among his most recent publications are co-edited volumes on "The European Union and Border Conflicts" (Cambridge UP, 2008), "Cyprus: A Conflict at the Crossroads" (Manchester UP, 2009) and "European Integration Theory" (second edition, Oxford UP, 2009). He received the 2009 Anna Lindh Award for his contribution to the study of European foreign policy. (As at: May 2010.)

Veronique Dudouet

Veronique Dudouet works as a researcher for Berghof Conflict Research, Berlin, concentrating on the areas of conflict transformation theory, civil society organisations and resistance/liberation movements in transition from war to politics. She holds an MA (2001) and PhD (2005) in Conflict Resolution from the Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University, UK. Her doctoral thesis looked at the limits of mainstream conflict resolution techniques in asymmetric conflicts and their potential complementarity with nonviolent action strategies, based on fieldwork in Israel/Palestine. She has been involved in peace and nonviolent movements since her childhood (which she spent in the Communautés de l’Arche in France), and most recently with the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Her recent publications include "From War to Politics: Resistance/Liberation Movements in Transition" (Berghof Report 17, 2009), "Surviving the Peace: Challenges of War-to-Peace Transitions for Civil Society Organisations" (Berghof Report 16, 2007), "Transitions from Violence to Peace: Revisiting Analysis and Intervention in Conflict Transformation" (Berghof Report 15, 2006), and forthcoming chapters in "Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity" (Pluto Press, 2009) and the "International Encyclopedia of Peace" (Oxford University Press, 2009). (Last updated: Nov 2009.)

Vanessa A. Farr

Vanessa A. Farr focuses on women's experiences of violent conflict, including the demobilization, disarmament and reintegration (DDR) of women combatants after war, the impact on women of prolific small arms and light weapons (SALW), and women’s coalition-building in conflict-torn societies. She has conducted field research on women's involvement in disarmament in Albania and Kosovo, trained women on DDR in the Democratic Republic of Congo and provided input to the reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Greater Great Lakes, Papua New Guinea (Bougainville), the Solomon Islands, Central and South America, Somalia, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Côte d'Ivoire. Her work includes the production of a guide to lessons learned about the need for gender awareness in DDR, and she has made recommendations for the improvement of future DDR and micro-disarmament processes conducted by the UN. She has produced a practical "checklist" and seminar materials for the implementation of gender-aware DDR and published several articles in academic journals and in public media and activist forums. She lectures widely on gender mainstreaming in DDR and disarmament in various forums at the UN and at universities and international conferences. She is also a volunteer with the International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA) Women's Network. She is a graduate of the Women's Studies Programme at York University, Toronto, Canada. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Christoph Feyen

Christoph Feyen is an expert in organisational development and works as a team leader at the Poverty Impact Monitoring Unit of the German development agency GTZ, Sri Lanka. He also serves as senior advisor to the Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA) in Sri Lanka. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Martina Fischer

Martina Fischer is deputy director at Berghof Conflict Research in Berlin, Germany, and co-editor of the Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation. She is also vice chair of the board of the German Peace Research Foundation (DSF). She has a PhD in Political Science from the Free University Berlin and has published widely on peacebuilding in South Eastern Europe, European peace and security policy, civil-military relations, the role of civil society in peacebuilding, the potential of youth in conflict transformation and linkages between peacebuilding and development strategies. She frequently advises peace and development agencies – civil society initiatives as well as public sector organisations, such as the German development agency GTZ – on conflict issues. She also has worked as an advisor and consultant for members of the German Parliament, the European Parliament, political parties and ministries, i.e. as a member of the Working Group on Peace and Conflict Studies and the Advisory Council on Civil Conflict Prevention established by the German Federal Foreign Office. Among her most recent publications are the edited volume "Peacebuilding and Civil Society in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Ten Years after Dayton" (Lit Verlag, 2nd edition, 2007) and "Strategies for Peace" (co-edited with Volker Rittberger, Barbara Budrich Verlag, 2008). (Last updated: Nov 2009.)

Ron Fisher

Ron Fisher is Professor of International Relations in the Division of International Peace and Conflict Resolution in the School of International Service at American University, Washington DC, USA. He was the Founding Coordinator of the Applied Social Psychology Graduate Program at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and has taught at a number of universities in Canada, the United States, and Europe in peace studies and conflict resolution. He holds a BA Hon. and MA in Psychology from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada and a PhD in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan, USA. He has provided training and consulting services to various organisations and international institutes in conflict management. His primary interest focuses on interactive conflict resolution, which involves informal, third party interventions in protracted and violent ethnopolitical conflict. He has worked on the long-standing dispute in Cyprus and similar conflicts in other parts of the world. His most recent publication is "Paving the Way: Contributions of Interactive Conflict Resolution to Peacemaking" (Lexington Books, 2005). (Last updated: March 2006.)

Simon Fisher

Simon Fisher is a facilitator, trainer, activist and writer. He has first-hand experience of conflict, development and change in many countries, working with local and international agencies, governments and at the UN. In 1991 he co-founded and became the first director of Responding to Conflict, UK. Since then his priority has been to help develop and sustain active networks of peace workers at global and regional levels, as well as to support specific initiatives for resistance and transformation. He is now working in Zimbabwe. Among his publications are "Working with Conflict: Skills and Strategies for Action" (co-author, RTC/Zed Books, 2000); and "Spirited Living: Waging Conflict, Building Peace" (Quaker Books, 2004). He is a former honorary research fellow at the Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, and is currently an associate of the Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (CENDEP) at Oxford Brookes University, both in the UK. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the UK All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues. (As at: Jan 2009.)

Diana Francis

Diana Francis is currently the Chair of the Committee for Conflict Transformation Support, UK and a former President of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation. As a freelance facilitator, trainer and consultant, she works mainly with people trying to address political/inter-ethnic conflict. She has been working on nonviolent conflict resolution, mediation and reconciliation, in England and worldwide, for more than 40 years. While the bulk of her experience is in the post-communist world (especially the former Yugoslavia and the Caucasus region), she has also worked in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. She is the author of three books: "People, Peace and Power: Conflict Transformation in Action" (Pluto Press, 2002), "Rethinking War and Peace" (Pluto Press, 2004) and the forthcoming "From Peacebuilding to Pacification: A Call to Global Transformation (Pluto Press, 2010). (Last updated: Nov 2009.)

Mauricio García-Durán

Mauricio García-Durán is a Jesuit priest and researcher on peace processes and social mobilisation for peace in Colombia. He is the executive director of the Center for Research and Popular Education (CINEP) in Bogotá, Colombia. He has also worked on programmes with the displaced population, for CINEP and the Jesuit Refugee Service. He has published four books and more than 40 articles on violence and peace-related issues, and has a BA in Political Sciences, a BA in Theology, an MA in Philosophy, and a PhD in Peace Studies from Bradford University, UK.

Ed Garcia

Ed Garcia serves as senior policy advisor at International Alert where he has worked since 1994, in conflict areas in Asia, Latin America and Africa. He was a member of the Commission which drafted the 1987 Philippine Constitution, researcher at the international secretariat of Amnesty International from 1978-80 and founding convenor of Amnesty International-Philippines in 1984. He taught at the University of the Philippines and the Ateneo de Manila University from 1981 to 1994. He earned his Masters in Philosophy in 1965 at the Loyola House of Studies, Ateneo de Manila University, and did postgraduate studies on Latin America at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) from 1974-78 and on peace studies at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at the Uppsala University in Sweden, and at the University of Oslo, Norway, 1988. Among his publications are the "Filipino Quest Trilogy" (Claretian Publications, 1988-89); "Participative Approaches to Peacemaking in the Philippines" (United Nations University/Ateneo de Manila University Press, 1993); and "A Journey of Hope: Essays on Peace and Politics" (Claretian Publications, 1994). (Last updated: March 2006.)

Canan Gündüz

Canan Gündüz is currently Policy Project Officer for International Alert's Business and Conflict programme with particular responsibility for developing research into the role of local business in peacebuilding. She has earned an MSc in Development Studies from the London School of Economics, UK and previously worked for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, New York, USA and the British Department for International Development’s (DFID) Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department, London, UK. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Friedrich Glasl

Friedrich Glasl teaches Organisation Development and Conflict Management at the University of Salzburg, and is a visiting professor at several universities in Europe, Armenia, Brazil, Georgia, Russia and South Africa. He also works as a business consultant and as a mediator in many kinds of organisations, as well as in political conflicts, civil and international war situations. He studied political sciences, psychology and philosophy at the University of Vienna, where he completed his PhD dissertation in 1967. From then until 1985 he was a senior consultant at the NPI-Institute for Organisation Development in the Netherlands; in 1984 he co-founded "Trigon Consulting" in Austria. He is the author and editor of several standard works on conflict management, leadership and organisation development. (Last updated: July 2008.)

Rachel Goldwyn

Rachel Goldwyn is the Conflict Programme and Policy Advisor for CARE International, UK. Formerly, she worked at International Alert, UK with a particular focus on conflict sensitivity and Sri Lanka, including the business sector. She has also worked extensively with the pro-democracy movement in Burma. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Albert Gomes-Mugumya

Albert Gomes-Mugumya is the project coordinator for the Minority Rights and Conflict Prevention Project of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CECORE) in Uganda. He previously worked for the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) in Johannesburg, South Africa, and for Amnesty International in London, UK. He has a bachelor’s degree in Politics, History and Philosophy from Makerere University (Uganda), and a master’s degree in Conflict Resolution from Lancaster University, UK. He is the author of "United Nations Transitional Administrations – An Enigma" (VDM Verlag, 2009). His areas of interest are conflict transformation, peacebuilding and human security. (As at: May 2010.)

Hesta Groenewald

Hesta Groenewald is the Conflict Project Coordinator in the Africa Programme at Saferworld, UK. She has worked on issues of conflict sensitivity, the European Union and conflict prevention, security sector reform and community-based policing in Africa and South Eastern Europe. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Hans Gsaenger

Hans Gsaenger is currently Senior Consultant for German Agro Action (Deutsche Welthungerhilfe) and the German development agency GTZ. He has also worked for the German Development Institute in Bonn, Germany and has extensive experience in rural development issues in Africa and South-East Asia. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Wibke Hansen

Wibke Hansen is the Head of the Analysis Unit of Germany's Center for International Peace Operations, where she has worked since 2002. She has an MA in Political Science, English and Sociology from the University of Münster, Germany and received her MA in Peace Studies from Bradford University, UK. She has worked previously for the Robert Bosch Foundation’s Postgraduate Program in International Affairs, the Fern Universitaet Hagen, Germany preparing a new course in Peace Studies and Democracy, and the German Red Cross where she was project coordinator for EU projects in the area of Refugees and Migration. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Mark Hoffman

Mark Hoffman is Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Lecturer in International Relations at the London School of Economics (LSE), UK. He is also Director of LSE's Conflict Analysis and Development Unit. He is Chair of the Board of Trustees of Conciliation Resources, London, UK. His areas of expertise are: strategic conflict analysis; third party mediation and conflict resolution in protracted international and intranational conflicts; and contemporary international relations theory. He has worked as a consultant for the UN, the UK government and NGOs in Moldova, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Yemen. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Bjoern Hofmann

Bjoern Hofmann is currently conducting research in Timor-Leste. Following his studies of International Relations at the University of Dresden, he was awarded an M.Litt with distinction in International Security Studies from the University of St. Andrews in 2007. His thesis examined a human security approach to peacebuilding, using Afghanistan as a case study. He was a fellow in the 2007/2008 Postgraduate Programme in International Affairs, run by the Robert Bosch Foundation and the German National Academic Foundation in cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office. His work on crisis prevention and conflict management has included working for the Enabling State Programme in Nepal, the UNDP Crisis Prevention and Recovery Unit in Timor-Leste and the Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi, which encompassed research in Afghanistan. (As at: April 2009.)

Ulrike Hopp

Ulrike Hopp has been the deputy director of the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies’ Sri Lanka office since 2005. For her position at Berghof, Ulrike is currently on leave from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), where she has worked since 1997. There she served as desk officer for conflict prevention and peacebuilding, from 2002 onwards, and authored the ministry’s strategy for peacebuilding ("Übersektorales Konzept zur Krisenprävention, Konfliktbearbeitung und Friedensförderung in der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit", 2005). As an economist, Ulrike Hopp integrates both her educational background in management and her professional experience in development assistance. She looks at her work from the angle of organisational learning and takes great interest in building capacities for institutional and social change processes. (As at: Jan 2009.)

Vivienne Jabri

Vivienne Jabri BSc (London), MA (Kent), PhD (City), is Director of the Centre for International Relations and Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She joined King’s in 2003, having previously lectured at the Universities of St. Andrews and Kent. Her research interests include critical, feminist and poststructural theories of politics and international relations, relating in particular to the study of war and political violence, identity/difference and the politics of security/liberty. Her publications include "Mediating Conflict" (Manchester University Press, 1990), "Discourses on Violence" (Manchester University Press, 1996) and, as co-editor, "Women, Culture and International Relations" (Lynne Rienner, Boulder, Colorado, 1999). She has recently published her research in the journals Alternatives, International Relations, and Security Dialogue. Her book "War and the Transformation of Global Politics" is to be published by Palgrave Macmillan. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Agneta Johannsen

Agneta Johannsen is currently working as an independent consultant through InterWorks, LLC in Madison, WI (USA). She previously worked with the Peacebuilding Partnership Programme at UNITAR, the United Nations Institute for Training and Research in Geneva, Switzerland, and as Deputy to the Director at the WSP Transition Program, a successor to the United Nations' War Torn Societies Project (WSP). (News on this programme can be found at www.wsp-international.org or www.interpeace.org respectively.) Prior to that, she worked on ethnic conflict and refugee issues for a number of years, for, among others, a non-governmental organisation, an OSCE affiliate and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. She is an anthropologist by training. (Last updated: Jan 2008.)

Masood Karokhail

Masood Karokhail MBA, born in 1976 in Kabul, Afghanistan, is deputy director and one of the founding members of The Liaison Office (TLO) in Kabul, Afghanistan and has led its development from a pilot research project in 2003 to an independent organisation with over 100 employees, three regional and four field offices. From 2002 to 2003, he worked with swisspeace in setting up and running the Afghan Civil Society Forum, organising dialogue conferences and civic education outreach campaigns. During the Taliban times (2000-2001), he was the Afghanistan country manager for Unilever. Prior to this he worked in the administration section of the Afghan NGO Development & Humanitarian Services for Afghanistan in Pakistan. In 2005 he was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF) in Bonn. (As at: April 2009.)

Daniela Körppen

Daniela Körppen is a researcher at Berghof Peace Support. She holds an MA in Sociology and Latin American Studies (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and an MA in Peace and Conflict Research (Otto von Guericke Universitaet, Magdeburg, Germany). She has several years of work experience as a journalist, and is currently preparing her PhD on systemic conflict transformation. (Last updated: Nov 2009.)

Nick Killick

Nick Killick is Manager of the Peacebuilding Issues Programme at International Alert, UK encompassing the organisation's former teams on Development, Gender, Security and Business. Previously, he was manager of International Alert's Business and Conflict Programme. He has been working on business and conflict issues, including both the role of multinational companies and local business, for over five years. He has researched and developed projects on promoting a peacebuilding role for the private sector in the South Caucasus, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Burundi and the Gulf of Guinea. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Benedikt Korf

Benedikt Korf is a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool's Department of Geography, UK. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Department of Resource Economics, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany where he also completed his PhD in 2004, and researcher at the Center for Development Research at the University of Bonn, Germany. A civil engineer and social geographer by training, he often works as a consultant and trainer for international co-operation agencies, eg, the Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), with a focus on community development, social integration and participatory planning approaches in conflict situations. His current research interests focus on the institutional and political economy of resource management in complex emergencies. His most recent publication is "Conflict, Space and Institutions: Property Rights and the Political Economy of War in Sri Lanka" (Shaker, 2004). (Last updated: March 2006.)

Ron Kraybill

Ron Kraybill is a Professor in the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA. He formerly served as Director of Training at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa, and as Director of the Mennonite Conciliation Service in North America. He holds a PhD in religious studies from the University of Cape Town, South Africa and has published numerous books, essays, and training manuals on mediation, facilitation and conflict transformation. Some of these are available at www.RiverhouseEpress.com. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Louis Kriesberg

Louis Kriesberg is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Maxwell Professor Emeritus of Social Conflict Studies and founding director of the Program on the Analysis and Resolution of Conflicts (1986-1994), all at Syracuse University, USA. In addition to over 125 book chapters and articles, his published books include: "Constructive Conflicts" (1998, 2003, 2007), "International Conflict Resolution" (1992), "Timing the De-Escalation of International Conflicts" (co-ed., 1991), "Intractable Conflicts and Their Transformation" (co-ed., 1989), "Social Conflicts" (1973, 1982), "Social Processes in International Relations" (ed., 1968) and "Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change" (ed., Vols. 1-14, 1978-1992). Most recently, he co-edited "Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding: Moving from Violence to Sustainable Peace" (2009). He lectures, consults and provides training regarding conflict resolution, security issues and peace studies. His current research focuses on alternative contemporary American foreign policies, the transformation of violent conflicts and trends in the fields of peace and conflict resolution studies. (As at: Jan 2009.)

Michelle LeBaron

Michelle LeBaron is a tenured Professor at the University of British Columbia's (UBC) law faculty and is Director of the UBC Program on Dispute Resolution based in Vancouver, Canada. She joined the Faculty of Law in 2003, after 12 years of teaching at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and the Women's Studies program at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. From 1990-1993, she directed the Multiculturalism and Dispute Resolution Project at the University of Victoria, where she worked with members of ethnocultural minority groups to design appropriate conflict resolution processes for intercultural conflicts. She is an experienced educator, researcher and intervenor in environmental and public policy, commercial, organisational and interethnic disputes. She has just completed a new book on conflict resolution across cultures with colleagues from six different countries: "Navigating Cultural Conflict", edited by Michelle LeBaron and Venashri Pillay (Intercultural Press, 2005). She continues to pursue research into creativity, the arts and multiple ways of knowing as resources for bridging cultural differences and is trained as a lawyer and therapist. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Manuela Leonhardt

Manuela Leonhardt is an independent consultant for a range of bilateral organisations and NGOs based in Eschborn, Germany. Trained in social anthropology, she previously held positions with International Alert, UK and the German development agency GTZ. Her particular interests include the strategic planning, monitoring and evaluation of peacebuilding, the role of development and humanitarian assistance in conflict situations and indigenous forms of conflict management. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Peter Lock

Peter Lock is working as an independent researcher and Coordinator of the European Association for Research on Transformation (EART e.V.) based in Hamburg, Germany. EART is a Russian-German research network of social scientists currently involved in "Challenge - The changing landscape of European Liberty and Security", an EU-financed international research network. His professional career spans coordinating programmes of the German Voluntary Service in Andean countries; research and teaching at the universities of Hamburg, Hannover, Bremen, Berlin and Kassel, all in Germany; and serving as Research Coordinator at the Berghof Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies (1989-1992). He holds a diploma in rural sociology and economics, and a PhD in international relations, both from the Free University of Berlin, Germany. You can learn more at www.Peter-Lock.de. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Clem McCartney

Clem McCartney is an independent research consultant on conflict and community issues and has a wide range of experience in Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. He also briefly served as co-editor and coordinator of the "Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation". Until 2008, he supported the Resource Network for Conflict Studies and Transformation (RNCST) in Sri Lanka, which was run by the Berghof Foundation for Peace Support, Berlin, Germany. (Last updated: Nov 2009.)

Andreas Mehler

Andreas Mehler PhD is the current director of the German Institute of Global and Area Studies' (GIGA) Institute of African Affairs, located in Hamburg, Germany. He previously served as senior researcher for the Conflict Prevention Network in Berlin, Germany, and has published widely on issues of power, governance and security in Africa. His publications include: "Decentralization, Division of Power and Crisis Prevention: A Theoretical Exploration with Reference to Africa" (in "Fragile Peace. State Failure, Violence and Development in Crisis Regions", ed. by Tobias Debiel and Axel Klein, Zed Books, 2002); "Between Ignorance and Intervention. Strategies and Dilemmas of External Actors in Fragile States" (co-authored with Tobias Debiel, Stephan Klingebiel and Ulrich Schneckener, Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden, 2005) and "Security Actors in Liberia and Sierra Leone: Roles, Interactions and Perceptions" (co-authored with Judy Smith-Hoehn, in "Actors of Violence and Alternative Forms of Governance", ed. by Tobias Debiel and Daniel Lambach, Institute for Development and Peace, 2007). He is also co-editor of and a regular contributor to the Africa Yearbook (Brill). (As at: April 2009.)

Sandra Melone

Sandra Melone is Executive Director of Search for Common Ground, Washington DC, USA. Previously, she established the organisation's Brussels headquarters (formerly the European Centre for Common Ground) and founded the Women's Peace Centre, a project set up by Search for Common Ground in Burundi. Before this, she worked in human rights advocacy with Amnesty International and in international education. She has given numerous workshops in conflict transformation, consensus building, negotiation, and cross-cultural communication, as well as presentations at international gatherings on various aspects of conflict prevention and resolution. She has appeared on CNN, BBC and the Voice of America and has written several articles on conflict transformation. She has a BA from the University of Chicago, USA and an MA from Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany in European and African Studies. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Hugh Miall

Hugh Miall is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations of the University of Kent, UK. Until 2005 he was a Reader in Peace and Conflict Research and Director of the Richardson Institute at Lancaster University, UK. He was previously a Research Fellow in the European Programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, UK, Research Director of the Oxford Research Group, and a researcher in energy and environmental issues at Earth Resources Research. He has taught at Essex University and the Open University in the UK and has been a visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Conflict Studies at the University of Utrecht, Netherlands. He received his BA in Modern History from Oxford University and his PhD in Politics and International Relations from Lancaster University. His research interests lie in the areas of war and peace, conflict resolution, conflict prevention, and peaceful change. His main area expertise is the wider Europe. His publications include: "The Peacemakers: Peaceful Settlement of Disputes Since 1945" (Macmillan, 1992); "Redefining Europe: New Patterns of Conflict and Cooperation" (Royal Institute of International Affairs/Pinter, 1994); and, together with Oliver Ramsbotham and Tom Woodhouse, "Contemporary Conflict Resolution" (Cambridge: Polity, 1999; expanded second edition 2005). (Last updated: March 2006.)

Christopher R. Mitchell

Christopher R. Mitchell is Professor Emeritus of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (ICAR) in Fairfax, Virginia, USA. Over the last four decades, he has been involved in numerous Track II interventions into protracted conflicts between, among others, Greek and Turkish Cypriots, Israelis and Palestinians, British and Argentinians as well as diverse Liberian factions. Most recently, he headed ICAR's "Local Zones of Peace" project, which analyses local communities' efforts to establish neutral and secure "zones of peace" in countries such as the Philippines and Columbia. His publications include: "The Structure of International Conflict" (Macmillan, 1981), the "Handbook of Conflict Resolution: The Analytical Problem Solving Approach" (Pinter, 1996) and "Gestures of Conciliation: Factors Contributing to Successful Olive Branches" (Macmillan, 2000). He is currently working on a textbook that will summarise the current state of knowledge in the field of conflict analysis and resolution. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Laurie Nathan

Laurie Nathan is a Visiting Fellow with the Crisis States Programme at the London School of Economics, UK. He was Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town, South Africa between 1992 and 2003. He served on the Cameron Commission of Inquiry into Arms Trade, established by President Mandela in 1994, and as a part-time advisor to the South African Minister of Defence. He was the drafter of the White Paper on Defence for the Republic of South Africa (1996) and participated in the drafting of other policies and laws relating to defence and security in South Africa. He can be contacted at L.Nathan@lse.ac.uk. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Alice Nderitu

Alice Nderitu is currently appointed commissioner in Kenya’s national cohesion and integration commission, which was created as one of the mechansims to address Kenya’s 2008 postelection crisis. While writing the contribution to this Dialogue, she was the director for Education for Social Justice (ESJ) with Fahamu, a non-governmental organisation dedicated to the strengthening of human rights and social justice movements (see www.fahamu.org and www.pambazuka.org/en). She has worked previously as a journalist, a teacher and as programme head on education and media programmes at the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights and the Prisons. A Nairobi University graduate with degrees and diplomas in Human Rights, Management, Literature, Armed Conflict and Peace Studies, she specializes in training on human rights, peace and conflict. She also is experienced in the development of curriculums, information, education and communication materials. She has developed training materials for and trained UN agencies, civil society organisations, law enforcement and military officers at the International Military Peace Support Training College and the Rwanda military academy, the South Sudan Human Rights Commission, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission as well as Ethiopian, Kenyan, Ugandan and Zimbabwean civil society. She is also a trainer in the University of Pretoria’s Good Governance courses. (As at: May 2010.)

Reina C. Neufeldt

Reina C. Neufeldt is a scholar-practitioner whose work focuses on the intersection of religious and ethnic identity in conflict, as well as peacebuilding and development. Her doctoral dissertation, "Barn Razing: Continuity and Change in Identity during Conflict", explored continuities and changes in one ethno-religious group’s identification across three decade-long periods of conflict, and the relationship between identity and choices made by group leaders during the conflict. As a practitioner, Neufeldt has worked extensively with non-governmental development organisations on peacebuilding, most recently for Catholic Relief Services in Southeast Asia, where she was the CRS Regional Technical Advisor for Peacebuilding, operating in East Timor, Indonesia, Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam. Neufeldt has co-authored "Peacebuilding: A Caritas Training Manual" (2001) and "Reflective Peacebuilding: A Planning, Monitoring and Learning Toolkit" (2007). She received her PhD in International Relations from the School of International Service, American University, USA in 2005, and completed an MA in Social Psychology from York University, Canada. She will spend the 2007-2008 academic year as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, USA. (As at: Aug 2007.)

Heiko Nitzschke

Heiko Nitzschke currently works for the German Foreign Service. Before that, he was Senior Program Officer for the International Peace Academy's (IPA) program on Economic Agendas in Civil Wars. He has also worked with the World Bank, Transparency International, and Oxfam America. He has MA degrees in public administration and international affairs from the University of Potsdam, Germany, and Columbia University, New York, USA. He is author of several IPA policy reports and journal articles on the political economy of armed conflict, including "Transforming War Economies: Challenges for Peacemaking and Peacebuilding" (IPA, 2003), and (with Karen Ballentine) "Business and Armed Conflict: An Assessment of Issues and Options" (in Die Friedens-Warte, 79/1-2, 2004). He is co-editor (with Karen Ballentine) of "Profitting from Peace: Managing the Resource Dimension of Armed Conflict" (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2005). (Last update: March 2006.)

Anna Nolan

Anna Nolan is Research Officer at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (ACPACS) at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Her research interests include Indigenous peoples' relationships to land; building dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in relation to land-based conflicts; and peacebuilding in the Asia-Pacific Region. (Last updated: April 2009.)

Thania Paffenholz

Thania Paffenholz is a Lecturer in Peace and Development Studies at the Swiss Universities in Berne and Geneva, and runs the policy advisory firm Peacebuilding Research and Advice based in Berne, Switzerland. She received her PhD in international relations from the University of Frankfurt, Germany in 1996. Her research focused on the theory and practice of mediation and peacebuilding in civil wars. After working as a Research Fellow at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt she held a position as a Peacebuilding Officer within the Regional Delegation of the European Commission in Kenya from 1996 to 2000. She then joined the think tank swisspeace in Berne, Switzerland from 2000 to 2003, holding the position of Director of the Center for Peacebuilding (KOFF), and was also Member of the Executive Board of swisspeace. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Nicola Palmer

Nicola Palmer has worked as a consultant to the Bristish Department for International Development (DFID), London, UK and recently relocated to Afghanistan. She has been living and working in Sri Lanka for the previous four years (2001-2005). After initially undertaking research for the UN Special Rapporteur for violence against women at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, she contributed to an anthropological study of social suffering due to war. Her next position was with the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies' Sri Lanka Office, where she developed and coordinated the work on political economy. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Michelle Parlevliet

Michelle Parlevliet has been working on the nexus of human rights and peace work for some 13 years in various capacities and contexts. She recently completed a posting as senior conflict transformation advisor for Danida's Human Rights and Good Governance Programme in Nepal, in which capacity she also advised the Embassy of Denmark on its support to the peace process. She previously worked with the Centre of Conflict Resolution in South Africa, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. She has consulted for the World Bank (Indonesia), the Office for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Council for Human Rights Policy, the Northern Ireland Parades Commission and numerous other organisations and networks. She has published widely on transitional justice, conflict prevention, human rights and peacebuilding, and has developed a distance-learning course on conflict prevention for national human rights institutions. She is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre on Human Rights in Conflict at the University of East London and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Rights Practice, publisehd by Oxford Journals. In 2008/09, she served as an independent expert to the UN/Spain MDG Trust Fund in its conflict prevention and peacebuilding thematic window. (As at: Sept 2009.)

Emily Pia

Emily Pia is a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, where she teaches Peace and Conflict Studies. She has worked as a researcher on the EU-funded project: Human Rights in Conflicts – The Role of Civil Society. Her academic interests include IR theory, deconstruction, human rights and conflict theory. Currently she is working on Narrative Therapy and Conflict Transformation. (As at: May 2010.)

Oliver Ramsbotham

Oliver Ramsbotham is Honorary Visiting Professor of Conflict Resolution at the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK, which he headed from 1999 to 2002. He has published, together with Hugh Miall and Tom Woodhouse, a seminal study of the conflict resolution field: "Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Resolution of Deadly Conflict" (Polity, 1999; second, revised and expanded edition 2005). He has also co-edited with Tom Woodhouse other studies on the relationship between conflict resolution and peacekeeping, including "The Encyclopaedia of International Peacekeeping Operations" (ABC-CLIO, 1999) and "Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution" (Frank Cass, 2000). (Last updated: March 2006.)

Cordula Reimann

Cordula Reimann is Project Coordinator and Senior Researcher at the Kompetenzzentrum Friedensförderung (KOFF) at swisspeace in Berne, Switzerland. Before joining swisspeace, she was with the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, UK. While working as university lecturer, trainer and consultant for various NGOs and governmental agencies, she published widely, particularly on the topics of gender, conflict and conflict resolution. At swisspeace, she is responsible for gender and peacebuilding, Sri Lanka, the "state-of-the-art" of conflict transformation, and training courses. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Dusan Reljic

Dusan Reljic is a Senior Researcher for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin, Germany. Previously, he was with the European Institute for the Media (EIM) based in Düsseldorf, Germany. Born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, he studied Communications Science, Political Science and Philosophy at the University of Vienna, Austria and wrote his PhD thesis on the "Media policy of the non-aligned states". He also worked for more than a decade for the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, before becoming Foreign Editor of the Belgrade news magazine Vreme in 1991. He was one of the founders of the Belgrade press agency Beta in 1993 and later became senior editor at Radio Free Europe in Munich, Germany. In his numerous contributions to print and electronic media in Yugoslavia, Germany, Austria and Britain, he concentrates on international relations and security, nationalism and ethnic strife, media performance in situations of tensions and conflict and media developments in Central and Eastern Europe. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Norbert Ropers

Norbert Ropers PhD is Director of Berghof Peace Support, Berlin, Germany and was Director of the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies Sri Lanka office from 2001-2008. Berghof Peace Support was established in 2004 with the aim to help generate, develop and implement innovative approaches to peacebuilding based on a systemic understanding of conflict transformation. From 1993 to 2002, he was Director of the Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management in Berlin. He is an experienced facilitator, trainer, consultant and researcher. He has dealt in particular with East-West relations in Europe, security policy, the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the impact of transnational relations on political decisions and strategies and methods of conflict resolution. He has published widely on, among others, transnational problems, security policy, the social psychology of international relations, alternative dispute resolution and constructive conflict management. He initiated the "Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation" project in 1998/99. (As at: July 2008.)

Marc Howard Ross

Marc Howard Ross is the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, USA. He is especially interested in the cross-cultural analysis of culture and conflict and of issues of theory and practice in conflict resolution. He teaches courses in conflict theory, conflict management, and the politics of ethnicity and race. His recent research focuses on the role of culture in ethnic conflict and its management. It draws on conflict surrounding such issues as Loyal Order parades in Northern Ireland, the holy sites in the old city of Jerusalem, language conflicts in Catalonia and Quebec, the confederate battle flag in the US south, and the politics of memory in post-Apartheid South Africa. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Jay Rothman

Jay Rothman is President of the ARIA Group, Inc., a conflict resolution training and consulting company. He is also Founder and Research Director of the Action Evaluation Research Institute, which promotes systematic goal setting, formative monitoring and participatory evaluation. His publications include "Resolving Identity-Based Conflict in Nations, Organizations and Communities" (Jossey-Bass, 1997), as well as over two dozen articles on identity-based conflict, conflict resolution, and evaluation. He has been a consultant, led workshops and conducted interventions in more than a dozen countries including South Africa, Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland, and Sri Lanka. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Oussama Safa

Oussama Safa is General Director of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, a public policy think tank based in Beirut, Lebanon. Prior to this, he worked in senior positions with the World Economic Forum’s Council of 100 Leaders, Search for Common Ground and the Lebanon Conflict Resolution Network (LCRN). Oussama Safa has extensive experience working with civil society in the MENA region; in 1998 he was founding president of Lebanon’s Anti-Corruption Association, La Fassad. He is a specialist in conflict resolution and has lead and co-lead several workshops on mediation, negotiation and collaborative problem-solving in the Middle East, Africa, the Caucasus, Southeast Asia, the US and Europe. He is a regular faculty member of Summer Institutes on Mediation and Conflict Transformation in the US and Europe and has authored and co-authored several publications and book reviews in Arabic and English on dispute resolution. He holds graduate degrees in conflict resolution and international development from the American University, Washington, DC. (As at: July 2007.)

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu who received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 1986, is Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) – an independent and non-partisan public policy institute focusing on issues of democratic governance and peace through programmes of research and advocacy based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Dr Saravanamuttu is a co-convenor of the Centre for Monitoring Election Violence and a member of the Board of the Sri Lanka Chapter of Transparency International. He has been on the Advisory Committee of the Free Media Movement and served as a member of the Foreign Affairs Study Group of the Foreign Ministry of Sri Lanka. Furthermore, he is currently a member of the Advisory Group to the UN Country Team. He has been quoted widely in the domestic and international media on the political situation in Sri Lanka, has presented papers and been a frequent participant at international conferences on governance and security issues. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu also serves on the Advisory Board of the Berghof Foundation for Peace Support. (As at: July 2008.)

Stephanie Schell Faucon

Stephanie Schell Faucon works for the German development agency GTZ in Sri Lanka, where she is responsible for the project Facilitating Local Initiatives for Conflict Transformation (FLICT). She has lectured for many years in adult education at the University of Cologne, Germany. She is a qualified teacher and also holds an MA degree in Education. Her PhD work at the University of Cologne, Germany examined peace and conflict education in divided societies. She went on several research trips to South Africa before engaging in Sri Lanka. Her special fields of interest are intercultural, peace, and Holocaust education. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Susanne Schmeidl

Susanne Schmeidl PhD is a visting fellow at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University and advisor to The Liaison Office (TLO) in Afghanistan. Prior to this she was a senior research fellow at the Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance at Griffith University, Australia and worked with swisspeace for nine years in the areas of early warning, conflict prevention and peacebuilding. Between 2002 and 2005 she managed the swisspeace office in Afghanistan and supported civil society development and peacebuilding, mainly through working with two Afghan organisations that she helped set up: the Afghan Civil Society Forum and TLO, coordinating the former between 2002 and 2004. She has published numerous articles, papers and book chapters on Afghanistan, gender, civil society, refugee migration, conflict early warning, peacebuilding and human security. (As at: April 2009.)

Beatrix Schmelzle (now Austin)

Beatrix Schmelzle (now Austin) is co-editor and coordinator of the "Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation" and a researcher at Berghof Conflict Research, Berlin. She previously has worked with various NGOs in the field of conflict management in research, facilitation and organisational development capacities, including: Search for Common Ground, Washington DC, USA, Seeds of Peace, Connecticut, USA, Public Conversations Project, Watertown, USA, International Alert, London, UK and, most recently, Vienna Conflict Management Partners, Austria, of which she is a founding member. She has an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. She also has an MA degree in Political Science/International Relations from the Free University Berlin, Germany. Her current research interest lies in the creation of learning organisations and reflective practitioners in the field of conflict resolution. Her long-term interest focuses on issues of reconciliation. (Last updated: Jul 2010.)

Dieter Senghaas

Dieter Senghaas is Professor of Peace, Conflict and Development Research at the Institute for Intercultural and International Studies, University of Bremen, Germany. He is one of the founding fathers of the German peace research field. The most recent publications of his eminent career include: "The Clash Within Civilisations. Coming to Terms with Cultural Conflicts" (Routledge, 2001); "Klänge des Friedens. Ein Hörbericht" (Sounds of Peace. A Listener's Report) (Suhrkamp, 2001); and "Zum irdischen Frieden. Erkenntnisse und Vermutungen" (On Perpetual Peace. A Timely Assessment) (Suhrkamp, 2004). He was Chair of the Board of Trustees for the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies from 1971, when it was established, to December 2000; and remains its life-time honorary member. (Last updated: Nov 2009.)

Ilana Shapiro

Ilana Shapiro is Acting Director and Assistant Professor for the doctoral programme The Psychology of Peace and Prevention of Violence at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. She holds a doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA as well as a doctorate in Social Psychology from Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic. Her interests focus on ethnic conflict, violence prevention and comparative evaluation of conflict intervention processes in US, Central and Eastern European and Middle Eastern communities. She is a founder and former President of the Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT), a non-profit organisation dedicated to building peace through innovative research and practice. She has authored "Training for Racial Equity and Inclusion" (Aspen Institute, 2002; available online at www.aspenroundtable.org), has written a chapter in "The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflict" (Praeger, 2006) and published several articles and essays in Negotiation Journal, the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science and the online database www.beyondintractability.org. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Andrew Sherriff

Andrew Sherriff is currently working on European Union-Africa relations; aid effectiveness; conflict, security and development; African peace and security architecture; and EU external action in Africa, the Caribbean and Pacific with the Development Policy and International Relations team at the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) in Maastricht, Netherlands. Previously, he was an independent consultant on peace, security and development issues, working in Sarajevo and London. Before that he was the Manager of the Development and Peacebuilding Programme at International Alert, London, UK, where he worked on the African Great Lakes, conflict sensitivity, and the European Union and conflict prevention. (Last updated: Oct 2008.)

Dan Smith

Dan Smith is the Secretary General of International Alert, London, UK. Previous positions include: Director of the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway (1993-2001); and Director of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1991-93). He has had fellowships at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo (2001), and the Hellenic Foundation for Foreign and European Policy in Athens, Greece (2003). He also has, among others, an honorary position as the Chair of the Board of the London-based Institute for War & Peace Reporting, UK (since 1992). He is the author/co-author of nine books, and editor/co-editor of six others, all of which address peace and conflict issues, including successive editions of "The State of the World Atlas" (new edition to be published late 2008), "The Atlas of War and Peace" (Penguin, revised and updated 2003), and "The State of the Middle East" (University of California Press, revised and updated 2008). He has also written over 100 articles and chapters in anthologies. (Last updated: July 2008.)

Angelika Spelten

Angelika Spelten works as a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Peace and Development (INEF), University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Trained as a political scientist, she has studied the role of development cooperation in the context of political tensions and crises for 15 years. Working at the interface between research, policy advice and project management, she has been involved with a variety of organisations. She is a member of the Working Group on Development and Peace (FriEnt), established by German government organisations and NGOs to develop coherence and cooperation in the fields of development and peacebuilding. Her key areas of interest are early warning and prevention strategies, markets of violence, and conflict transformation processes. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Chris Spies

Chris Spies works as Peace and Development Advisor for the Social Cohesion Programme based at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Guyana, South America. He is a specialist in the field of conflict transformation, development and community building processes. He worked as a pastor in a depressed rural community in South Africa in the 1980s. As the Regional Organiser of the Western Cape National Peace Accord Structures, and later as Senior Trainer and Researcher at the Cape Town-based Centre for Conflict Resolution, he was deeply involved in peacebuilding in South Africa in the 1990s. In addition to his work in South Africa, he has gained extensive experience and a proven track record over many years in various countries such as Kenya, Somalia, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Namibia and Norway, while working independently in his consultancy named Dynamic Stability CC. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Dirk Sprenger

Dirk Sprenger is an independent facilitator, consultant and trainer in personal development based in Berlin, Germany. Conflict transformation is one of his main areas of work. He has experience in training participants from the five continents, with a special focus on Latin America. As a consultant, he tailor-makes suitable training processes for governmental and non-governmental organisations. (Last updated: March 2006.)

VS Srikantha

VS Srikantha is the Director of the Corporate Social Responsibility Project, a part of International Alert’s Business and Conflict programme in Sri Lanka. Coming from a business background, he has specialised in marketing and is a Chartered Marketer (UK) and a Certified Professional Marketer (Asia Pacific). He has held several senior management and consultancy positions in leading business organisations. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Georgios Terzis

Georgios Terzis is Chair of the Communications Department at Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Vesalius College, Belgium. He worked for 10 years as a foreign correspondent for Greek Media and for seven years as a course leader for the European Journalism Centre, training journalists from all over the world on EU affairs. In addition, he worked for three years as a Media Programmes Director for Search for Common Ground in Brussels, Belgium and organised Media and Conflict Resolution programmes and training for journalists from Angola, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Cyprus, Greece, the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Turkey and the Roma community. He studied Journalism and Mass Communication in Greece, the UK, USA, Netherlands and Belgium. His main research interests include media and ethnic conflict, political communication, media and globalisation, European communication systems, risk communication, nationalism and national identities. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Gunnar Theissen

Gunnar Theissen is a doctoral candidate at the Transitional Justice Project at the Law Faculty of Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. In April 2005 he joined the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Geneva. He has been a member of the task force on "Police Reconstruction and Training in Afghanistan" at the German Federal Foreign Office, starting in 2003, and a member of the German Working Group of Amnesty International's International Justice Project since 2001. He has an MA degree in Political Science from the Free University Berlin and an LL.M. degree in International and Human Rights Law from the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. (Last updated: March 2006.)

Barbara Unger

Barbara Unger is senior coordinator and deputy director of Berghof Peace Support (BPS). She coordinates the consulting services of BPS and is responsible for programme activities in Latin America. Her recent activities include, among others, providing training, consultancy services and backstopping for German technical cooperation (GTZ) programmes, as well as lessons learned and practitioners’ guidelines. Barbara Unger joined BPS in 2006; prior to that she coordinated zivik, a funding mechanism for conflict resolution activities set up by the German Federal Foreign Office, and was part of the editorial team of the Federal Government’s Action Plan Civilian Crisis Prevention, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Peace-Building. She has previously worked as an independent trainer and consultant, as well as being a programme officer in several development and consulting institutions. A political scientist focusing on development and gender issues with a specialization from the German Development Institute, her current practice and research interests comprise systemic approaches, peace support structures and dealing with the past. (As at: Jan 2009.)

Trutz von Trotha

Trutz von Trotha, Dr. phil., holds a chair of sociology at the University of Siegen, Germany. For over twenty years he has been a contributor on issues of power, violence, colonial and postcolonial rule and state- or society-building. Among his most recent publications in the context of conflict transformation and the failing states debate are: "Essays on the Reconstruction of Societies after War" (co-edited with Marie-Claire Foblet, Hart, 2004); "History, the 'Kalashnikov Syndrome' and Conflict Resolution between the Global and the Local – Some Sociological Remarks" (in "Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in Middle Eastern Societies – Between Tradition and Modernity", ed. by Hans-Joerg Albrecht et al., Duncker-Humblot, 2006) and "Le Programme Mali Nord ou Variantes de la Para-étatisation" (in "La Quête Anthropologique du Droit", ed. by Christoph Eberhardt et al., Karthala, 2006). (As at: April 2009.)

Nenad Vukosavljevic

Nenad Vukosavljevic has worked with the Centre for Nonviolent Action (CNA) since its foundation in 1997 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. CNA is registered as a branch office of KURVE Wustrow. Being a conscientious objector since 1986, he lived in exile for 14 years, in London, Hamburg and Sarajevo, returning to his hometown Belgrade in 2002. He is author of a Manual for Training in Nonviolent Conflict Transformation ("Nenasilje?" 2000) and has produced several documentary films on dealing with the past in the region of former Yugoslavia: “Traces“ (2004); “It cannot last forever” (2006); “All wish to cast a stone” (2006); "Not a bird to be heard" (2007). More information can be found at www.nenasilje.org. (Last updated: Nov 2009.)

Martina Weitsch

Martina Weitsch is a representative and head of office at the Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA), a Quaker NGO based in Brussels. She has held this position since 2002. She has been a Quaker all her life and her current role at QCEA allows her to bring her lifelong experience to her political advocacy on peace issues. Martina Weitsch holds a diploma in Management Studies from Huddersfield Polytechnic, UK (1989) and worked in the UK within the social housing field for many years before moving to Brussels to take up her current role. Publications include "Peace and Peacebuilding – Some European Perspectives" (QCEA 2007) and "People are Party to Building Peace" (QCEA/EPLO 2008). (As at: Jan 2009.)

Oliver Wils

Oliver Wils is Executive Director of Berghof Peace Support in Berlin, Germany. Prior to this, he worked as an independent consultant for peacebuilding and development issues. He has a PhD from the Free University Berlin and is a graduate of the Centre for Advanced Training in Rural Development, also in Berlin. (As at: July 2008.)

Tom Woodhouse

Tom Woodhouse is Professor of Conflict Resolution in the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University, UK. He also founded the department's Centre for Conflict Resolution in 1990 and was its first director. Together with Hugh Miall and Oliver Ramsbotham, he has published a major study of the conflict resolution field: "Contemporary Conflict Resolution: The Prevention, Management and Resolution of Deadly Conflict" (Polity, 1999; second, revised and expanded edition 2005). He has also co-edited (with Oliver Ramsbotham) other studies on the relationship between conflict resolution and peacekeeping, including "The Encyclopaedia of International Peacekeeping Operations" (ABC-CLIO, 1999) and "Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution" (Frank Cass, 2000). (Last updated: March 2006.)

Peter Woodrow

Peter Woodrow is co-director of the Reflecting on Peace Practice (RPP) project at CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In this position, he has been concentrating on engagement with governments and NGOs in the Great Lakes Region of Africa, particularly Burundi, Rwanda and the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He is an experienced mediator, facilitator, trainer and consultant, skilled in negotiation, collaborative problem-solving and dispute resolution systems design. He has also developed and implemented international programmes in consensus-building, problem-solving, decision-making and inter-ethnic conflict resolution in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. (As at: Jan 2009.)

Susan L. Woodward

Susan L. Woodward is professor of political science in the PhD programme of The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), USA. She received her PhD from Princeton University in 1975; has taught at Mount Holyoke and Williams Colleges and Northwestern and Yale Universities; was senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC (1990-1999); and, in 1994, head of the Analysis and Assessment Mission of UNPROFOR. She has written extensively on Yugoslav political economy (including "Socialist Unemployment: the Political Economy of Yugoslavia 1945-1990", Princeton University Press, 1995), the Balkan wars (including "Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War", Brookings Institution Press, 1995) and now on state failure, international security and post-conflict state-building. (As at: April 2009.)

Herbert Wulf

Herbert Wulf serves as an advisor to the UNDP, Pyongyang, Korea, on arms control issues. He is a professor and also the former Director and a Senior Research Fellow at the Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC) in Germany, where he currently leads a research project on internationalisation and privatisation of traditional military functions and the effect of these trends on the democratic control of the armed forces. His most recent publication is "Internationalisierung und Privatisierung von Krieg und Frieden" ("Internationalisation and Privatisation of War and Peace") (Nomos, 2005). (Last updated: March 2006.)

Luc Zandvliet

Luc Zandvliet is Director of the Corporate Engagement Project at Collaborative Learning Projects (CDA), Cambridge, USA. He works with companies that have operations in conflict areas, aiming to ensure that their corporate presence has a positive, rather than a negative, impact on people's lives. Prior to this, he worked for Doctors without Borders (MSF) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). He has recently published "Getting It Right: Making Corporate-Community Relations Work" (co-authored with Mary B. Anderson, Greenleaf Publishing, 2009). (Last updated: Nov 2009.)

Lada Zimina

Lada Zimina is currently a conflict advisor at Care International UK, and has previously worked at Skillshare International and International Alert, UK. She is a practitioner from Kazakhstan, with experience of working regionally in Central Asia and the Caucasus, and on a wider international scale. She has focused on critical issues in peacebuilding such as security and small arms control, contested histories, business interests and resource management policies, and peace and conflict education. She is especially interested in building the capacity of civil society to deal with conflict, and in exploring the linkages between development and conflict transformation. Lada Zimina is a former Chevening scholar. (As at: Jan 2009.)
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