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Civitatis
International sponsors our non-profit
think-tank: Researchers Without Borders
that is composed of Research Associates based at
their own institutions around the world,
legal professionals and individuals working
in the field on humanitarian missions
predominantly in the UN agencies. Civitatis
RWB is a global governance think-tank run by
young researchers under 31 and founded to promote the ideals of
peace of the
Commonwealth reformer, Lionel Curtis. Our
think-tank was founded at a Council of
Europe sponsored conference in 2002 by young researchers
at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth and
the Lester B Pearson Canadian Peacekeeping
Centre. The
Research Associates listed below have either
written; or are writing for the Civitatis
tank-tank. We also have a category of
'Friends of Civitatis' listed at the bottom
of this page.
THE
CIVITATIS
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES
BONGO ADI holds
degrees in philosophy, international
relations, and economics. He has been a
fellow of the United Nations University as
well as a World Bank Scholar. His research
conviction is that sustainable development
can only be achieved through a
trans-disciplinary approach to problems of
development. Bongo’s research is focused on
how to transform certain anti-developmental
institutions and processes in Africa for
sustainable development. He is currently
engaged in highlighting aspects of these
disabling factors through various
publications as well as working on a book
-"Where the Rain started beating Us" - to
provide an insight into the institutional
crises of the nation-statist project in
Africa. Bongo has taught in the University
and served as a policy analyst with the
Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG). He is
currently a doctoral student at the
University of Tsukuba, Japan where he is
engaged in computable general equilibrium
modelling, while also researching on values
and social capital and its accumulation.
MONICA
BLAGESCU
is a doctoral candidate in the Department of
European Studies at the University of Bath
(UK) where she researches the role of
international transitional administrations
in promoting good governance of the police
in post-conflict societies. Since 2003 she
has also been working for the One World
Trust where she is currently managing the
Accountability Programme. Prior to moving to
the UK Monica was consultant for the UNHCR
Regional Centre for Emergency Training in
International Humanitarian Response (Asia
%26 Pacific). From 2000-2002 she served as
research and project assistant in the Peace
and Governance Programme at the United
Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo Japan
where she was involved in projects such as:
the research and training series on Building
Conflict Prevention Capacity (funded by the
Canadian International Development Research
Centre and the UNU); the World Governance
Assessment project (which informed the 2002
UNDP Human Development Report); the project
on the Role of the Military in Post-Conflict
Peacebuilding (funded by the German and
Japanese Foreign Ministries). Prior to
leaving UNU she coordinated the activities
of the International Association of
Peacekeeping Training Centres and assisted
the Association’s President in his
functions. Monica pursued postgraduate
studies at the International University of
Japan and the Norman Paterson School of
International Affairs in Canada. She holds
an MA degree in International Relations and
a BA degree in Political Science and
Journalism.
FRANCESCA BOCCHINO has a Degree in
International and Diplomatic Sciences from
the University of Trieste, cum laude. She
holds a Master's Degree linked with the
Ministry of Italian Defence at Centro Alti
Studi per la Difesa, Rome and has researched
the cooperation between Military and
Civilians in emergency situations. She
specialises in CIMIC cooperation related to
political issues and in Mine Risk Education
through an Italian NGO, INTERSOS. her
research interests are the Middle East and
the Angolan environment on mines and on
information campaigns, and education taken
in the immediate aftermath of an emergency
respecting the IMAS outlines and UNMAS
strategies. She has spent time in Jordan
with the Italian Embassy in Amman.
GIORGIO V. BRANDOLINI is an
International adviser on relief and
reconstruction. Formerly a University
lecturer, he has organised cultural and
educational events, and synthesised his
professional outputs in two hundred articles
and ten books, ranging from political
analysis to technical manuals. He has
identified and managed relief and
development programs in Asia, Africa and
Latin America, working for public and
private organisations, and participated to
the international missions mandated with the
reconstruction of Kosovo, East Timor and
Iraq. His personal contribution ranges from
the direction of reconstruction actions to
the supervision of local authorities and
humanitarian organisations. His experiences
are recorded in the book Emergence and the
essay Low Intensity Conflicts, analysing
trends and tools of international
cooperation and its role on the crises
evolution. He has been involved in the
activities of several cultural and
professional associations, as well as the
ISO committee charged with the quality
management standard, He has also advised
small and medium enterprises on organisation
issues. His professional experiences
include: senior consultant / project analyst
for the Plant Production and Protection
Division, at FAO Rome Headquarters, adviser
on economic governance of Iraqi agriculture,
for the transitional administration,
2003-2004; identification and management of
relief and development projects in the D. R.
of Congo, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan and
Tanzania, for public and private
organisations, 2001-2002; co-ordination of
the civil administration of a region of East
Timor, for the UN transitional
administration (UNTAET), 2000-2001;
co-ordination of the reintegration of former
combatants in the civilian life in Kosovo,
for an international organisation (IOM),
1999-2000; management of the foreign
relations and identification and
implementation of development projects –
mostly in Latin America -, for a consulting
company (CRF), 1992-1999; short missions for
the identification and monitoring of
projects in East Europe, Latina America, and
Asia, for Embassies and public and private
organisations, 1991-2003; teacher of
information technology and development
expert, for an University in Central America
(UNICO), 1988-1990. Among his publications
are numbered the books: El Salvador, country
study (1991), Emergenze (2002), La Normativa
del Mercato Europeo (2002), Low Intensity
Conflicts (2003) and Medicine
Latinoamericane (2004).
WALTER BROWN
has an MA from Rhodes University, South
Africa, where his thesis was entitled
“Patents, Pills, Poverty and Pandemic: the
ethical issues.” He was later a researcher
in the Policy and Public Affairs Department
of the Terrence Higgins Trust, the largest
HIV/AIDS organisation in Europe. Currently
Walter is at the Social Care Institute for
Excellence, set up by the UK government to
promote best practice in social care. His
interests include: coordinated
multi-national policies on health and social
care; public health law, confidentiality and
HIV transmission; interrelationships between
the health and social care needs of those
affected by pandemics; and the ethics of
patenting life-saving medication during
states of pandemic and the general ownership
of life-saving treatments. He is also
interested in metaphysics, ethics, the
evolution of the nation-state,
globalisation, the relationship between
global public health and the nation-state
and how religion impacts on policy. Walter
is also a Fellow of the 21st Century
Trust.
GRAHAM DAY is currently Deputy High
Representative for Bosnia-Herzegovina with
responsibility for implementation of the
Dayton Peace Accords in the Banja Luka
region. Previously he was Senior Fellow at
the United States Institute of Peace,
conducting research on policekeeping and is
author of Policekeeping: A Field Guide to
Law and Order Operations in Failed States,
forthcoming from USIP Press in 2003. He has
served as Oecussi district administrator for
the UN Transitional Administration in East
Timor, where he coordinated all UN
peacekeeping and peacebuilding operations in
the district and has extensive experience in
civilian peacekeeping operations, having
worked as a field officer in UN operations
in the Balkans and Central America, and as
team leader for the Oil for Food Programme
in Iraq. He is also a member of the external
faculty of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre,
Canada.
DAVID DEMMER
is currently a PhD student at the European
Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, Germany.
His research project is about globalisation
and the role of multinational companies. He
was educated at the University of Mainz,
Trinity College, Dublin, and St. Gallen,
Switzerland. He is also a graduate of the
London School of Economics and Political
Science and a Fellow of the 21st
Century Trust.
CARMO D'SOUZA
holds a PhD in law from Poona University and
is a lecturer in law at the V.M. Salgaocar
College of Law, Miramar - Panjim, Goa. He is
author of legal systems in Goa volume I and
II and has published volumes on comparative
constitutional law and concepts in law. He
seeks to promote study and analysis on world
constitutionalism and has recently authored
a book, Concepts in law, understanding the
past, analyzing the past and visualizing the
future. He also runs the Ismilda Research
Consultancy in Calangute , Goa.
PAMINA FIRCHOW holds
a Master’s degree in comparative politics
from the London School of Economics. She has
worked for various non-governmental
organisations, such as Saferworld, The Small
Arms Survey, The Federation of American
Scientists and the Arias Foundation for
Peace and Human Progress, as well as for the
German Bundestag. Her interest in arms
export controls, small arms and social
movements began while completing a
Bachelor’s degree at Carleton College in
Northfield, Minnesota and also while
studying at the Universidad Católica in
Santiago, Chile. She has published articles
on United States arms exports and has worked
on evaluating the implementation of the
Organization of American States’ convention
on illicit arms trafficking. Currently she
is a Rotary World Peace Scholar at the
Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires,
Argentina. She is writing a thesis on
insider/outsider relationships between
different sectors of civil society and
international organisations in post-crisis
Argentina. Pamina is a Fellow of the
21st Century Trust.
NICOLAS FRANKCOM
is a Research Associate of Civitatis
International. He has studied politics at
Utrecht University in the Netherlands,
before moving to England and completing an
MSc in Political Sociology at the London
School of Economics. He has worked for the
conference department of the Royal Institute
of International Affairs in London dealing
specifically with transatlantic defence
partnerships and international development
goals. He speaks fluent German and Dutch and
his research interests are: the evolving
nature of global and state based,
environmental security; Iraq’s suitability
for systems of democratic governance,
democratisation processes, reunification of
segmented polities and human rights. Nick
has been the sole author of two in depth
reports for Civitatis International
resulting from stakeholder conferences held
by the Institute of Environmental Security
at the Peace Palace at the Hague and the
European Parliament: ‘Forces for
Sustainability’ and ‘From Bali to Poznan,
New Issues, New Challenges’, both dealing
with the changing nature of environmental
security, how states, military alliances and
the European Union can address the impending
global security risks resulting from climate
change.
CHRISTOPHER
P. FREEMAN
holds a Masters in Security Studies from the
University of St Andrews. He assisted in the
establishment of Civitatis in 2002-2003 that
was then jointly run by himself at the
Lester B. Pearson Canadian Peacekeeping
Centre and Jan Mortier at the University of
Wales, Aberystwyth. Chris helped institute
the Lionel Curtis inspired Civitatis
Kindergarten in London and has been
coordinator of the Peacebuilding Programme
at Civitatis International. He is the
editor (w. Peter Pavilionis) of
Policekeeping: A Field Guide to Law and
Order Operations in Failed States,
forthcoming from USIP Press in 2003. He was
previously a researcher at the Pearson
Peacekeeping Centre, Canada, and has
published articles on peace operations and
cultural dimensions of governance and
international administration in
International Affairs, Cambridge Review of
International Affairs and Civil Wars. Chris
has served on a field mission in Afghanistan
for the United Nations and is currently
serving in the
Humanitarian, Reconstruction and Development
Unit at the United Nations Assistance
Mission for Iraq (UNAMI)..
TOM GEHRELS
is an Astronomer at the Department of
Planetary Sciences at the University of
Arizona. He helped to set up the Spacewatch
program for finding near-Earth asteroids. He
has discovered a number of comets, including
periodic comets 64P/Swift-Gehrels, 78P/Gehrels,
82P/Gehrels, and 90P/Gehrels. He has also
discovered over 3000 asteroids, including
the Apollo asteroids 1864 Daedalus and 5011
Ptah, and the Amor asteroid 4587 Rees, as
well as dozens of Trojan asteroids.
Professor Gehrels and his colleagues operate
the 0.9-meter Spacewatch Telescope on Kitt
Peak, which finds some 20,000 moving objects
per year. These are mostly mainbelt
asteroids, Tom and his team also find about
30 near-Earth asteroids per year as well as
other objects of special interest. He is
also the general editor of the Space Science
Series of the University of Arizona Press.
With two other editors, Dr. Gehrels has
completed the 24th book of the Space Science
Series, Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids.
During World War II Tom was a member of the
Dutch resistance, and he has interviewed
surviving political prisoners who were
forced to build V-1 and V-2 rockets under
the supervision of Wernher von Braun. He has
charged that von Braun bears greater
responsibility and guilt for harsh treatment
of prisoners than his official "sanitized"
biography would imply. Tom Gehrels is the
Scientific Advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev and
a member of the Scientific Committee of the
World Political Forum. He is a board member
of Civitatis International- Researchers
Without Borders and is engaged in promoting
universal primary education through the
Akanksha Foundation.
AXEL HADENIUS is
a Professor in the Government Department at
Uppsala University, where he has been Head
of the Department from 1996 to 1999 as well
as a Member of the Faculty Board since 2002.
He has received fellowships at Universities
worldwide, including the University of
California at Berkeley, Michigan State
University, and the University of Melbourne.
He is also involved in many Political
Science Associations, including the Swedish
PSA, Nordic PSA, Scandinavian PSA, and
International PSA. Professor Hadenius has
published extensive materials on Democracy
and democratization, including how it
relates to local governance, institutions,
and development. He is an Associate of the
Council for a Community of Democracies.
IRENE
HADIPRAYITNO is
currently a PhD researcher at Netherlands
Institute of Human Rights, Utrecht
University, the Netherlands. She is working
on her research about the practice of the
United Nations Right to Development using
the case study of participatory development
in Indonesia. She holds a bachelor degree of
international relations studies from
University of Indonesia and an LLM degree on
Internationa Protection of Human Rights from
Utrecht University. She has been working as
junior lecturer for International Human
Rights Law for University of Indonesia. She
has served several consultancy works for The
Global Society Institute, at Faculty of
Social and Political Sciences, University of
Indonesia on their NGOs Manager Capacity
Building Project and for The International
Labour Organisation, Jakarta on their
Industrial Relations Research Database
Project. She has also worked as junior
researcher for The National Commission of
Human Rights, Indonesia, The Ad Hoc Team of
Independence for Aceh Conflict, and The
National Commission for Violence Against
Woman, Indonesia. Internationally, she was
involved as the country studies researcher
for Redress International, London for their
research on Reparation for Torture: A Survey
for Law and Practice in Thirty Selected
Countries. She is at the moment a member of
the Association for Law and Development in
Developing Countries (ALADIN) and the
Research School for Resources Studies for
Development (CERES), both are in the
Netherlands.
JAMES F.
HANLON
has a B.A. in International Diplomacy, a
M.S. in Peace Operations, and a Professional
Post-Graduate Degree in Peace Support
Operations from George Mason University and
the United Nations Department of
Peacekeeping Operations Institute for
Training and Research George Mason University
respectively. Mr. Hanlon has been
professionally engaged in International
Development for 15 years in the private,
government and non-profit sectors. Specific
involvements have included Humanitarian
Development and Policy efforts in Vietnam,
and as an interactive instructor for Policy
Analysis, Planning, and Execution to senior
ministers from Serbia, Kosovo, and Iraqi
Governing Council Interim Government of
Iraq. A Woodrow Wilson Scholar, Mr. Hanlon
has served as a consultant to The United
States Institute of Peace and Institute for
Defense Analyses. He is a published
Research Associate in Peace Building for
Civitatis International and resides with his
family in the Washington DC area.
CAROLINA HEPP works
with the children’s rights NGO, Casa Alianza
Guatemala on an Olof Palme Scholarship for
half a year. She was selected among a list
of capable Swedish applicants committed
towards children’s issues in developing
countries; in this case, helping and
empowering street children in Central and
Latin America while living under basic
conditions and on minimal financial support.
She has a BA in International Relations with
Spanish from the Univeristy of Sussex at
Brighton with one year spent at Universidad
de Granada, Spain and an MA in International
Peace and Security from King’s College
London where she obtained the two Swedish
scholarships of: Fredrika Bremer
Förbundets and Carl Jönssons
Understödsstiftelses stipendium. Her MA
graduation thesis dealt with Turkey’s role
in International Peace and Security. She was
a Research Intern with the London-based
International Institute for Strategic
Studies (IISS) where she worked in the
Defence Analysis Department with a team of
analysts in helping to set up the
Institute’s Armed Conflict Database; an
online (and interactive) source of
information released in 2003 which presents
year-on-year analysis on 70 international
and internal armed conflicts and their
political status, number of fatalities,
weapons being used, and the costs accrued.
Ms Hepp mainly focused on the conflicts in
Liberia and Rwanda. Among other
achievements, Ms. Hepp has also been a
student representative from the University
of Sussex at two Model United Nations
conventions in London and New York in 2001
and has lived and worked in Singapore for
one and a half years in 2002/2003.
YOLANDE
HOOGENDOORN
has a German
Diploma in Social Geography from the
Technische University Munich as well as a
Masters degree in International and European
Politics from the University of Edinburgh.
Throughout her studies she has emphasised
subjects based on important current issues,
such as HIV/AIDS as a development barrier,
informal employment in Europe and Latin
America as well as child labour in
developing countries. Her research at the
University of Edinburgh specifically dealt
with the issue of rape as a weapon of war.
Her experience includes an internship at the
United Nations Headquarters in New York
where she worked in the Development Policy
Analysis Division of the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs doing research
for a case study on HIV/AIDS in Uganda. She
also held an internship in the Europe
Department of the BMW Foundation Herbert
Quandt in Munich, which seeks to promote
international exchange in order to support
the unification of Europe in the aftermath
of the East/West conflict. Living in
different countries and cultures (South
Africa and Germany) coupled with
multicultural experiences in Singapore and
Mexico during her studies has exposed her to
different languages and variations in
cultural practices on many occasions.
AMANDA HOWE is an attorney and
government affairs professional working with
corporate clients to increase employee
participation in PACs and grassroots
programs. Amanda received her law degree
from American University in Washington, DC.
Upon graduation, Amanda took a position as a
legislative analyst for a national policy
analysis organization. Amanda is a board
member of the Dallas United Nations
Association and an active member of the
Dallas World Affairs Council. As a law
student, Amanda held several legal positions
in foreign regulatory bodies including the
English Office of the Banking Ombudsman and
the Hong Kong Intellectual Property
Department. Amanda has spoken at several
conferences, including a conference on the
WTO and China with international legal
scholars in Xi'an, China, and is a frequent
contributor to publications for
international development organization Mercy
Corps.
MARIA H. IVANOVA is the Director of
the Global Environmental Governance Project
at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and
Policy. Her work focuses on international
institutions and organizations,
environmental policy at the national and
global levels, and equity concerns. Maria
is the co-editor of Global Environmental
Governance: Options & Opportunities
(with Daniel Esty) and author and co-author
of articles and chapters on governance,
globalization, and the environment. A
Bulgarian national, she holds degrees from
Mount Holyoke College and Yale University
and is currently completing a doctorate at
the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental
Studies. Maria has worked at the Environment
Directorate of the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris
and at the Swedish Environmental Protection
Agency in Stockholm on policies for water
quality standards setting in the Russian
Federation.
PARAG KHANNA manages the Global
Governance Initiative of the World Economic
Forum, based at the Brookings Institution in
Washington, D.C. GGI is an independent,
international project to assess the level of
effort and cooperation among governments,
the private sector, civil society and
international organizations in implementing
the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
He is also a member of the Forum's Global
Agenda Team, which builds medium-term
scenarios on global issues for the Forum's
Annual Meeting in Davos and its regional
summits. Previously, he was a Research
Associate at the Council on Foreign
Relations in New York, where he conducted
research projects on terrorism, conflict
resolution in Central Asia, U.S. policy
towards South Asia and defence policy. He
holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign
Service and International Affairs and a
minor in Philosophy from Georgetown
University, a Masters Degree from
Georgetown's Security Studies Program, and
studied at the Freie Universitaet Berlin.
His essays and reviews have appeared in
publications such as The New York Times,
Financial Times, Policy Review, The National
Interest, Foreign Policy, Los Angeles Times,
Slate.com, Survival (U.K.), Current History,
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs,
New Statesman (U.K.), Strategy+Business,
Washington Times, Daily Star (Lebanon), and
OpenDemocracy.net (U.K.). He is a
Non-Resident Associate of the Institute for
the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown
University and has been a Visiting Fellow at
the Observer Research Foundation in New
Delhi, India. His current research interests
include global issues networks and
multi-track diplomacy.
MARIA-LAURE KNAPP received her B.A. (Hons)
in Politics and Post-Soviet Studies at
McGill University. She has worked
internationally in the field of human rights
law, and in human rights advocacy for the
Legal Assistance Centre in Namibia and
Transparency International in Zimbabwe, from
where she returned in December 2003.
Previously she interned with UNESCO in Bonn,
Germany and as a researcher at the Pearson
Peacekeeping Centre, Canada. She now works
at Clifford Chance.
VINCENT LEYSEN is
currently working as a journalist in Geneva,
Switzerland. He is active as a sub-editor
and news producer in the Eurovision news
exchanges at the European Broadcasting Union
(EBU), the world's largest professional
association of national broadcasters. His
academic achievements include a BA in
Economics with Spanish and an MA in Social
and Political Thought, both at the
University of Sussex, Brighton, UK. He
specialised in the works of thinkers such as
Hegel, Gramsci and Foucault. Of Belgian
nationality, Vincent was raised in Brussels,
after which he studied in the UK and Spain
and is now living and working in Geneva. He
is an Editor of Civitatis International.
ANAYANSI LOPEZ is a Guatemalan
journalist specialized in social and
political issues of the Central American
region. She possesses a Master’s degree on
political communication from the Autonomous
University of Barcelona, Spain, and has been
in touch with the Human Rights concerns in
post conflict societies since 2000, when
selected as a Press and Public Information
Officer for the United Nations Verification
Mission of the Peace Agreements and, later
on, for the Project of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights, both in
Guatemala. She was selected by both of these
UN agencies to design and implement a
communication strategy. Her technical
expertise as a journalist has linked her,
since 1996, to national and international
journalism, both in print and broadcast
media. She won the award for “Best Central
American Investigative Report for Radio”,
granted by the Spaniard news agency,
Acan-Efe. She has, as well, nurtured with
her stories the Hispanic weekly Hola,
published by the US daily, The Chicago
Tribune.
IRENE MBULI is a lawyer by
profession. born in the Tabora region of
Tanzania, she holds an LL.B from the
University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. She
then specialized in Public International
Law, Humanitarian Law, Refugee Law and Human
Rights. She has written on the “ Legal
Protection of Civilians and Soldiers who are
Wounded and Sick and Unable to Continue
Fighting in Situation of Armed Conflict-The
case Study of Rwanda Ethnic Clashes.” She
worked in the Dar es Salaam law firm of M.
A. Ismail & Co. Advocates She has also
worked as a researcher for Lawyers
Environmental Action Team (LEAT). In 2003
she was offered a position as a legal
researcher at United Nations International
Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (UNICTR) and
thereafter was awarded the UNICTR
Certificate for the Completion of an
Assignment under the Legal Researchers
Programme of the United Nations
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
She is a member of Tanzania Women Lawyers
Association and a member of the Lawyers
Environmental Action Team. She is currently
working with UNICTR as Evidence Analyst in
the Office of the Prosecutor, Evidence
Section.
VAHAGN
MURADYAN
currently works with the Council of Europe
Information Office in Armenia. He graduated
from the History Department of Yerevan State
University in Armenia and holds MA degree in
International Relations and European Studies
from Central European University, Budapest
and an MA in International Peace Studies
from United Nations University for Peace,
Costa Rica. Vahagn worked in the Armenian
print media and conducted two-year military
service in Nagorno-Karabakh. His research
interests include theories of war and peace,
international peacekeeping and human
security. He is an Editor of Civitatis
International.
JOHN MORIJN
is a researcher at the law department of the
European University Institute in Florence,
Italy. He holds a law degree from Rotterdam
Law School, a master’s degree in EU law from
the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, as
well as a master’s degree in human rights
from the Venice European Master’s Programme
in Human Rights and Democratisation, Italy.
John undertook internships relating to
aspects of human rights treaty reporting at
the Secretariat of the European Social
Charter in Strasbourg, France, and at the
UNICEF Innocenti Centre in Florence, Italy.
He is a member of the recently established
Academic Network that advises the European
Social Charter Secretariat and is EU law and
human rights Associate of the Review of
International Social Questions (www.RISQ.org/).
JAN MORTIER
is the founder
and Executive Director of Civitatis
International - Researchers Without Borders.
Bio & Portfolio
BAHMAN NARAGHI
received his JD with a focus on
international law from the Case Western
Reserve University. He obtained an LLM in
International and Comparative Law (Cum
laude, with honours) from the Vrije
Universiteit Brussels. He has also studied
law in Rome and travelled extensively in
Europe. Currently, he works as an adjunct
at Franklin University, is a member of the
American Society of International Law and
the United Nations Association, in addition
to volunteering for several other
international affairs organisations. He
speaks fluent French and Farsi.
MARIANELA
NAVAS
is an Ecuadorian lawyer. She studied law at
the Universidad Internacional SEK in Quito -
Ecuador. Later she studied a masters program
in European Studies at the
Europa-Universitaet Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)
in Frankfurt (Oder) - Germany, and focused
her studies in the human rights field. After
her studies in Europe she returned to
Ecuador, where she is about to obtain her
Juris Doctor degree from the Universidad
Internacional SEK in Quito. As a member of
the American Association of Jurists -
Chapter Ecuador, she is currently working
for the promotion and protection of human
rights within the Ecuadorian society. She
speaks English, German and French.
LUCAS OLUOCH holds an LL.B from the
University of Nairobi, Kenya and LL.M (Eur)
from Bremen, in Germany. He is an advocate
of the High Court of Kenya and practices law
in Kenya. He is a member of the Law Society
of Kenya and the ICJ- Kenya Section. He
teaches Human Rights and International
Institutions at Parklands Campus, University
of Nairobi, Kenya. His research interests
are in human rights and constitutional law,
public international law, intellectual
property and regional integration by
developing countries.
GERARD ONG-WEBB is a Research Associate
under the Regional Strategic and Political
Studies Programme at the Institute of
Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore since
November 2002. He graduated in October 2002
with an MSc in International Relations from
the London School of Economics (LSE) under a
Sir Tan Cheng Lock MA Scholarship. He earned
his BA (Honours) in Political Science from
the National University of Singapore (NUS)
in 2000. He was also awarded the Singapore
Eurasian Association’s Academic Excellence
Award in 2000. In 1997, he and a group of
international students helped start up an
internationally refereed electronic journal
called The Social Science Paper Publisher (www.sspp.net)
and served as one its Managing Editors.
Gerard is also a Fellow of the 21st
Century Trust.
RICHARD PONZIO is a doctoral
researcher in the Department of Politics and
International Relations at Oxford. From
2003-2004 he was the Democratic Governance &
Security Sector Team Leader for the UN
Development Programme in Kosovo, where he
managed projects in the areas of
anti-corruption, parliamentary
strengthening, and small arms disposal. From
2002-2003, he served as UNDP Peace &
Development Coordinator in the Solomon
Islands, where his work involved the
demobilization of militants, constitutional
reform, and economic recovery. Prior to
this, Richard is a Fellow of the 21st
Century Trust and was a Visiting Fulbright
Fellow at the Mahbub ul Haq Human
Development Centre (Islamabad) and a Policy
Advisor for the Global Human Development
Report (New York). Richard received academic
training in conflict studies and economic
development at the Fletcher School of Law &
Diplomacy and at Columbia University.
JOSEPH E.
SCHWARTZBERG
received his Ph.D. from the University of
Wisconsin in 1960. He has since taught at
the University of Pennsylvania (1960-64),
the University of Minnesota (1964-2000) and
the Centre for the Study of Regional
Development at Jawaharlal Nehru University
in New Delhi (1979-80). His academic
specialties are the geography of South Asia,
political geography, and the history of
cartography. Professor Schwartzberg, is best
known as the editor and principal author of
the
Historical Atlas of South Asia
(University of Chicago Press, 1978 and
Oxford University Press, 1992). Schwartzberg is also a co-author of The
Kashmir Dispute at Fifty: Charting New Paths
to Peace and the author of Kashmir: A
Way Forward, published in 1997 and 2000
respectively by the Kashmir Study Group, a think-tank that he helped form
in 1996. His doctoral
dissertation, Occupational Structure and
Level of Economic Development in India,
A Regional Analysis, was published as
a monograph of the 1961 Census of India.
He has written
numerous articles relating to UN reform, in
Global Governance and other journals.
He has served several terms on the Board of
Directors of Citizens for Global Solutions.
FERDINANDO STILE holds a degree in
Political Science in Turin University. Where
his graduation thesis was about China's
economical and political evolution after
1978. In 2003 he obtained a Master's degree
in Peacekeeping Management and Human Rights
organized by Turin University, International
Institution of UN, Italian Red Cross and
Italian Army. His research focused on
peacekeeping, peace building and peace
enforcement operations. His thesis was about
Iraqi history until the last war. In August
2003 he started to work with an Italian NGO
for an emergency project in North Iraq,
based near Al-Mawsil (Mosul), as cultural
mediator and Arabic translator. In May 2004
he returned to Italy to collaborate with
different projects on political evolution in
Asia and Africa.
JACKY SUTTON
works at the Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) in Rome. she is a
specialist in information and communication
in complex emergencies and hostile
environments. she has experience in local
government institutions and UN agencies in
developing countries; as a journalist,
trainer and radio broadcaster/producer with
BBC World Service. Currently she is doing
part time doctoral research in the political
economy of communications in crisis at SOAS,
London. She is an Editor of Civitatis
International.
ALEXANDER WENDT is Associate
Professor of Political Science at the
University of Chicago. He taught at Yale
University from 1989 to 1997, and at
Dartmouth College from 1997 to 1999. He is
the author of a number of articles on
international relations theory, and a book,
Social Theory of International Politics
(Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is
currently working on two projects, why a
world state is inevitable, and the possible
implications of quantum mechanics for social
science.
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