Mohamed Diriye Abdullahi is a linguist specializing in the languages, cultures, and history of the Horn of Africa. He holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from Université de Montréal. He has been variously a teacher of French, a translator, and a press and radio journalist in Somalia. He is currently an independent researcher. He is the author of Parlons Somali (L’Harmattan, 1996); The Culture and Customs of Somalia (Greenwood Press, 2001); and Fiasco in Somalia: The US–UN Intervention (Africa Institute of South Africa, 1995). Email: mdiriye@hotmail.com
Mario I. Aguilar is Dean of the Faculty of Divinity at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and author of several books, including The Rwanda Genocide (AMECEA Gaba Publications, 1998). Email: mia2@stand.ac.uk
Raphaëlle Branche teaches Contemporary History at the University of Rennes. She is also an Associate Researcher at the Contemporary History Institute (CNRS), where she jointly conducts a seminar on Repression, Administration and Supervision in the Colonial World in the Twentieth Century. She has published La Torture et l’armée pendant la guerre d’Algérie, 1954–1962 (Gallimard, 2001). Email: raphaell@club-internet.fr
Breyten Breytenbach is one of the leading figures in modern South African arts. He was jailed by the apartheid regime on terrorism charges in 1975, and moved to Paris upon his release in 1982. His prison memoir, The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist, appeared the following year. His paintings have been exhibited in many countries since the early 1960s. Among his many prizes and awards are the Alan Paton Award for Literature (South Africa) and the Prix d’Ivry pour la Peinture (France). He is a faculty member of the Graduate School of Creative Writing at New York University, and from 2000 to 2003 was Visiting Professor in the Graduate School of Humanities at the University of Cape Town.
Ward Churchill (Keetoowah Band Cherokee) is Professor of American Indian Studies and Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado/Boulder. Among his more than twenty books are A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present (1997), Struggle for the Land: Native North American Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Colonization (1999), and Acts of Rebellion: The Ward Churchill Reader (2003). Email: Ward. Churchill@ Colorado.edu
Ramsey Clark was Attorney General of the United States from 1967 to 1969, when he gained renown for his commitment to civil liberties and civil rights. He was also the first Attorney General to support abolition of the death penalty. He subsequently taught law and became prominent in the movement against the Vietnam War. He convened the Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal investigating crimes against the Iraqi people during the 1990–91 Gulf War and the era of economic sanctions that followed.
Jan-Bart Gewald works at the African Studies Centre in Leiden, the Netherlands, and has taught at the University of Leiden and the Institute for African Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany. He has studied African History and African Political Studies at Rhodes University, South Africa, and holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Leiden in the Netherlands. He has published two books on Herero history: Herero Heroes: A Socio-Political History of the Herero of Namibia, 1890‒1923 (Oxford, 1999) and We Thought We Would Be Free: Socio-cultural Aspects of Herero History in Namibia (Cologne, 2000); has coedited a volume on Herero society with Michael Bollig, People, Cattle and Land: The Herero Speaking People of Southern Africa (Cologne, 2001); and, together with Jeremy Silvester, has published an annotated new edition of the British government ‘Blue Book’ dealing with the Herero genocide in Namibia. Apart from a number of book contributions, his articles have appeared in the Journal of African History, the Journal of African Cultural Studies, African Affairs and other publications. Email: gewald@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Denis J. Halliday worked with the United Nations for three-and-a-half decades, including as Assistant Secretary General for Human Resources Management and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq. He resigned in November 1998 in protest over sanctions against Iraq. He is presently Lang Visiting Professor for Social Change at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania.
Syed Hassan is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. He holds a Master’s degree in English Literature and another in History from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Dr Hassan has completed his Ph.D. in Modern English Poetry at Purdue University, Indiana. Email: Syedkmhassan@sc.rr.com
Suhail Mohiul Islam is Assistant Professor of English at the Nazareth College of Rochester, New York. Currently, his main research field is postcolonial discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and rhetoric and technical communication, with particular reference to United States and South Asia. He has written on empire and literacy, and is currently working on socio-political themes in South Asian languages and literature. Email: smislam@naz.edu
Steven L. Jacobs holds the Aaron Aronov Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, where he is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies. His primary fields of interest are Holocaust and Genocide Studies as well as post-biblical Jewish and Christian religious thought and re-interpretation. Among his books are Contemporary Jewish and Contemporary Christian Religious Responses to the Holocaust (1992); Raphael Lemkin’s Thoughts on Nazi Genocide (1992); Rethinking Jewish Faith: The Child of a Survivor Responds (1994); The Holocaust Now: Contemporary Christian and Jewish Thought (1996); and Pioneers of Genocide Studies (2002, with Samuel Totten). He also served as Associate Editor of the Encyclopedia of Genocide (1999), and is the Secretary-Treasurer of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. Email: sjacobs@bama.ua.edu
Adam Jones is currently Professor of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE) in Mexico City. He is author of Beyond the Barricades: Nicaragua and the Struggle for the Sandinista Press, 1979–1998 (Ohio University Press, 2002), and editor of Gendercide and Genocide (Vanderbilt University Press, forthcoming). His scholarly articles have appeared in Review of International Studies, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Journal of Genocide Research, Journal of Human Rights, and other publications. He is Executive Director of Gendercide Watch (www.gendercide.org), a Web-based educational initiative. Personal website: adamjones.freeservers.com. Email: adamj_jones@hotmail.com
Arthur Jay Klinghoffer is a Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University. His two most recent books are The International Dimension of Genocide in Rwanda (New York University Press, 1998) and, as coauthor, International Citizens’ Tribunals: Mobilizing Public Opinion to Advance Human Rights (Palgrave, 2002). Dr Klinghoffer has been a Senior Fellow at the Nobel Institute in Oslo, and a Fulbright Professor in China and Israel.
Eric Langenbacher is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Department of Government, Georgetown University. His dissertation, defended with distinction in September 2002, is titled ‘Memory Regimes in Contemporary Germany,’ and is currently being turned into a book manuscript. His next research project will look at at the degree to which ethnic minorities in Germany and Europe accept dominant collective memories. Email: langenbe@georgetown.edu
David Bruce MacDonald holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science. His first book, Balkan Holocausts? Serbian and Croatian Victim Centred Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia was published in 2003 by Manchester University Press. From 1999 to 2003 he was Assistant Visiting Professor in the social sciences at the école Supérieur de Commerce de Paris (ESCP-EAP). He is currently a Lecturer in Political Studies at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. Email: david.macdonald@stonebow.otago.ac.nz
Linda R. Melvern is one of Britain’s leading investigative journalists. Since leaving the Sunday Times she has published four books, including, in 1995, a fifty-year history of the UN. Her book on the genocide in Rwanda, A People Betrayed: The Role of the West in Rwanda’s Genocide, (Zed Books/St. Martin’s Palgrave) was published in 2000, and is in its third printing. She is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, in the Department of International Politics. An archive of the documents used in the research for A People Betrayed is in a special collection at the Hugh Owen Library, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Email: linda@melvern.co.uk
Francis Njubi Nesbitt is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at San Diego State University in San Diego, California. He teaches African American politics, black political thought and race and public policy. He is the author of Race for Sanctions: African Americans against Apartheid, 1946–1994 (Indiana University Press, 2003). For 2003–04, Dr Nesbitt is a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he is completing his second book, African Intellectuals in the Belly of the Beast: Migration, Identity and the Politics of Exile. email: fnesbitt@mail.sdsu.edu
Peter G. Prontzos teaches Political Science at Langara College in Vancouver, Canada. Born in San Francisco, he has been a writer and activist in movements for democracy, peace, and social justice since the US attack on Vietnam, when he moved to Canada to resist Indochina service with the Marine corps. His dishonourable discharge holds pride of place on his office wall. He has three wonderful children, Rachael, Eleni, and Yeorgios. Email: pprontzo@langara.bc.ca
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–1980) was one of France’s leading twentieth-century philosophers, novelists, and playwrights. He was also a vocal opponent of the French war against Algeria and the US war against Indochina. Among his numerous essays is ‘On Genocide,’ prepared for the Russell Tribunal on war crimes in Vietnam (1967).
Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His latest book is Drugs, Oil, and War: The United States in Afghanistan, Colombia, and Indochina (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). In 2000, he published Minding the Darkness, the final volume of his poetic trilogy Seculum. In 2002 he received the Lannan Poetry Award. Email: pdscottweb@hotmail.com
Peter Stoett is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. His research and publications focus on human rights and environmental issues, and international relations theory. His recent books include Human and Global Security: An Exploration of Terms (University of Toronto Press, 2000) and, with Allen Sens, Global Politics: Origins, Currents, Directions (ITP Nelson, 2001). Email: pstoett@vax2.concordia.ca
Thomas Turner is Professor of Political Science at the National University of Rwanda. He is the author of Ethnogenèse et nationalisme en Afrique centrale: les racines de Lumumba (Harmattan, 2000), and co-author (with Crawford Young) of The Rise and Decline of the Zairian State (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985). Email: tommyagain@yahoo.com
Ernesto Verdeja is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Graduate Faculty of the New School University in New York City. His dissertation examines the normative underpinnings of truth commissions and tribunals, and their contributions to larger processes of reconciliation in post-atrocity societies. Email: ven8202@mindspring.com
S. Brian Willson, a former US Air Force Captain, directed a combat security unit in Vietnam in 1969. His global travels as a civilian continue to document US violations of international laws committed with almost total impunity. He was nearly killed in 1987 during a peaceful protest of US Central American policies, losing both legs and suffering a skull fracture and severe brain injury. His essays are available at www.brianwillson.com; he has also published a book, On Third World Legs (Charles Kerr, 1992). Willson holds two honorary Ph.D.s, an M.S. in correctional administration, and a Juris Doctor. Email: bw@brianwillson.com