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A Adebajo
Adekeye Adebajo is the Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town, South Africa. Before assuming this post, he was Director of the Africa Program at the International Peace Academy (IPA) and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), both in New York. He served on United Nations missions in South Africa, Western Sahara, and Iraq and was a member of the Resource Group of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change. He is the author of Building Peace in West Africa: Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2002); Liberia’s Civil War: Nigeria, ECOMOG, and Regional Security in West Africa (Boulder: Lynne Rienner 2002); and co-editor of Managing Armed Conflicts in the Twenty-First Century (London: Frank Cass, 2001); West Africa’s Security Challenges: Building Peace in A Troubled Region, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2004); A Dialogue of the Deaf: Essays on Africa and the United Nations (2006); and South Africa in Africa: The Post-Apartheid Era (2007). He obtained his doctorate from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes scholar.

R Akinyele
Rufus Taiwo Akinyele obtained the B.A (Hons), M.A and Ph.D Degrees in History from the University of Lagos, Nigeria. He joined the teaching staff of the same department in 1990 as Lecturer II and rose to the position of Professor of African History in 2005. His research interest covers the related fields of African Political History, Ethnic Relations, Border Studies and Urban History. He is the editor of numerous books, including Race, Ethnicity and Nation-Building in Africa, Ibadan: Rex Charles, 2003; Contemporary Issues in Boundaries and Governance in Nigeria, Lagos: Friedrich Ebert Foundation, 2005; and African Integration: Images and Perspectives, Lagos: University of Lagos Press, 2006. He is a member of the Congress of African Historians, African Borderlands Research Network (ABORNE) and International Research Group (GDRI). He was Sub-Dean, Faculty of Arts, 1998-2000 and succeeded Professor A. I. Asiwaju as Director, Centre for African Regional Integration and Border Studies (CARIBS), in 2004.

D Anderson
David Anderson is Professor of African Politics, and Director of the African Studies Centre, in the University of Oxford. He has published extensively on the history and politics of eastern Africa. His most recent books include 'Histories of the Hanged: Britain's dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire' (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2005), and 'The Khat Controversy: Stimulating the Debate on Drugs' (Berg, 2007). He is a past editor of the Journal of African History, and is currently editor of the Journal of Eastern African Studies. He is presently engaged in collaborative research projects on trauma and personhood in Kenya during the 1950s, and on the long-term history of land use and settlement in the Omo Valley of Ethiopia. He is also writing a history of the Cold War in Africa.

J-F Bayart
Jean-Francois Bayart holds the rank of Director of Research of the Conseil National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and is a former director of the Centre d'études et de recherches internationales (CERI), Paris, affiliated to Sciences Po and the CNRS. A comparative political scientist, he is the author of numerous books, including L'Etat en Afrique. La politique du ventre (Fayard, 1989, revised edition 2006) L'Illusion identitaire (Fayard, 1996) and Le Gouvernement du monde. Une critique politique de la globalisation (Fayard, 2004). His main works have been translated into English, in particular The Illusion of Cultural Identity (C. Hurst & Co. and the University of Chicago Press, 2005) and Global Subjects. A Political Critique of Globalization (Polity Press, 2007). He is series editor of the « Recherches internationales » series published by Editions Karthala. He has taught at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and in the Universities of Lausanne and Turin. He is currently a co-director of the seminar series on « Limites du politique, politiques des limites » at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.

C Boone
Catherine Boone is Professor of Government at University of Texas at Austin. She works on issues of African political economy, and is author of Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal, 1930-1985 (Cambridge University Press, 1993), Political Topographies of the African State (Cambridge, 2003), and articles and book chapters. She is past president of the West Africa Research Association, which governs the West Africa Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, and was a visiting scholar at the Centre Ivoirien de Recherche Economique et Sociale (CIRES), in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She is now working on the politics of rural land tenure regimes.

R Dowden

S Ellis
Stephen Ellis is a senior researcher at the Afrika Studie Centrum, Leiden, the Netherlands, of which he is also a former director. A historian by training, he has researched and published on a range of countries in Africa and on Madagascar. He is a former editor of the newsletter Africa Confidential, a former editor of African Affairs (1998-2006) and former director of the Africa programme at the International Crisis Group. He is currently doing research on the history of Nigerian organized crime while maintaining a longstanding interest in the general history of Madagascar.

P Englebert
Pierre Englebert is associate professor of Politics at Pomona College, Claremont, California. He is the author of State Legitimacy and Development in Africa (Lynne Rienner,, 2000) and Africa: Unity, Sovereignty, and Sorrow (Lynne Rienner, forthcoming). He has degrees from the Free University of Brussels, Johns Hopkins University (SAIS) and the University of Southern California. His research focuses mostly on the dynamics of state construction and failure, institutions and the political economy of development, with a particular emphasis on Francophone Africa.

C Ero
Comfort Ero is currently Deputy Director: Africa and Director of the Cape Town Office of the International Centre for Transitional Justice.
Prior to that, she was Policy Advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary General and Political Affairs Officer of the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). Previously she was a Project Director at the West Africa office of the International Crisis Group.
In London in the 1990s she conducted research at King's College, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and at the United Nations Association-UK. She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from the London School of Economics, University of London.

L Gberie
Lansana Gberie is Senior Associate and head of the International Center for Transitional Justice's Liberia Office. He is an academic and writer, and was Senior Research Fellow at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra , Ghana . Gberie has written extensively on conflict and conflict management in Africa, including, most recently, A Dirty War in West Africa : The RUF and the Destruction of Sierra Leone (Indiana University Press, 2005). His scholarly articles have appeared in academic journals and as book chapters. Gberie has consulted for International Crisis Group (ICG), and has been a key researcher for Partnership Africa Canada's Human Security and International Diamond Trade project. He was co-author of The Heart of the Matter: Sierra Leone, Diamonds and Human Security ( Ottawa , 2000).

G Ter Haar
Gerrie ter Haar is Professor of Religion and Development at the Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, the Netherlands. A scholar of religion, she has conducted research and published on Africa in particular. She is the author of several books and has edited a number of volumes concerning religion in the contemporary world. She is the vice-president of the International Association for the History of Religions. Her current research concerns the role of religion in the development process.

H Bernt Hansen

P Kagwanja
Peter Kagwanja has been the director of research at Human Science
Research Council (South Africa) since 2006 and Acting Executive
Director of its Democracy and Governance Programme (2007-2008). He is
also the President of the Africa Policy Institute (Nairobi/Pretoria),
and a Research Associate at the Department of Political Science,
University of Pretoria. Prior to that, Dr Kagwanja was the director of
the International Crisis Group, Southern Africa and African Union
research and partnership portfolio (2004-2006). He was a senior
researcher at Safer-Africa, Pretoria (2003-2004), and research
associate at the Kenya Human Rights Commission (2000-2002). He was a
senior researcher at the Centre for Refugee Studies, Moi University
Kenya, where he lectured in politics and history (1992-1998). In
1998-2000, he was a J.W. Fulbright fellow at the University of
Illinois at Urbana-Campaign, USA where he obtained a PhD degree in
History, law (international/human rights) and politics.

J McGregor

N Nattrass
Nicoli Nattrass is Professor of Economics and Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. She obtained a BA from Stellenbosch University, an honours degree from UCT, a Masters degree from Natal University and a M.Sc and a D.Phil from Oxford. Her research interests include South African political economy, inequality, AIDS unemployment and the rollout of antiretroviral treatment. Recent books include The Moral Economy of AIDS in South Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Class Race and Inequality in South Africa (Yale University Press, 2005, co-authored with Jeremy Seekings) and Mortal Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for Antiretrovirals in South Africa (University of KwaZulu Natal Press, 2007).

K Nwajiaku

F Nyamnjoh
Francis B. Nyamnjoh is Associate Professor and Head of Publications and Dissemination with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) since July 2003. He has taught sociology, anthropology and communication studies at universities in Cameroon, Botswana and South Africa, and has researched and written extensively on Cameroon and Botswana, where he was awarded the “Senior Arts Researcher of the Year” prize for 2003. His most recent books include Negotiating an Anglophone Identity (Brill, 2003), Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa (Zed Books, 2004), Africa’s Media, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging (Zed Books, 2005), Insiders and Outsiders: Citizenship and Xenophobia in Contemporary Southern Africa (CODESRIA/ZED Books, 2006). Dr Nyamnjoh has published widely on globalisation, citizenship, media and the politics of identity in Africa. He has also published four novels, Mind Searching (1991), The Disillusioned African (1995), A Nose for Money (2006), Stories from Abakwa (2007) and Souls Forgotten (2008), and a play, The Convert (2003). Additionally, he has served as vice-president of the African Council for Communication Education (ACCE) from 1996-2003. For further details visit: www.nyamnjoh.com.

F Reyntjens
Filip Reyntjens teaches courses on African Law and Politics at the University of Antwerp, where he is a professor, and has chaired the Institute of Development Policy and Management from 2001 to 2007. He has been President of the Belgian Association of Africanists and of the African Studies and Documentation Centre (ASDOC-CEDAF) in Brussels, and Vice-Rector of the University of Mbuji-Mayi (DRC). He is Vice-President of the International Third World Legal Studies Association (New York) and member of the (Belgian) Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences. A specialist of Sub-Saharan Africa, his research focuses on the Great Lakes region. His latest books are “L’Afrique des grands lacs en crise” (Paris 1994), “Burundi. Breaking the Cycle of Violence” (London 1995), “Rwanda. Trois jours qui ont fait basculer l'histoire” (Paris 1996), (with S. Marysse) “L'Afrique des grands lacs. Annuaire” (Paris, yearly 1997 through 2007), “La guerre des grands lacs” (Paris 1999), “Burundi. Prospects for Peace” (London 2000), and (with S. Marysse) “The Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region in Africa” (Basingstoke 2005).

J Ryle

S Straus
Scott Straus is Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Straus is the author of two books on the Rwandan genocide: The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda (Cornell University Press, 2006), and, with Robert Lyons, Intimate Enemy: Images and Voices of the Rwandan Genocide (MIT/Zone Books, 2006). The Order of Genocide received the 2006 Award for Excellence in Political Science and Government from the Association of American Publishers and an Honorable Mention for the Herskovits Prize from the African Studies Association. Straus also co-authored, with David Leonard, Africa's Stalled Development: International Causes and Cures (Lynne Rienner, 2003), and he translated Jean-Pierre Chrétien’s The Great Lakes of Africa: Two Thousand Years of History (MIT/Zone, 2003). He has additionally published articles in World Politics, Politics & Society, Foreign Affairs, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Journal of Genocide Research, Patterns of Prejudice, and Wisconsin International Law Journal. Prior to entering academia, Straus was a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya.

M Twaddle

P Williams
Paul D. Williams is Associate Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick, UK and currently a Visiting Associate Professor in the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA. His main areas of research are theories of international security, contemporary British foreign policy, and peace operations. He is author of British Foreign Policy under New Labour, 1997-2005 (Palgrave-Macmillan 2005), co-author of Understanding Peacekeeping (Polity 2004), editor of Security Studies: An Introduction (Routledge 2008), and co-editor of Africa in International Politics (Routledge 2004), Peace Operations and Global Order (Routledge 2005), and The New Multilateralism in South African Diplomacy (Palgrave-Macmillan 2006).

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