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Mats Berdal is director of studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Between 1997 and 2000 he was a research fellow at the Center for International Studies, Oxford University. He has published extensively in the area of international security, focusing in particular on issues related to internal conflict and the use of force in international relations after the Cold War.

Paul Collier is director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. He is on leave from the University of Oxford, where he is professor of economics and director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. He has published about eighty articles and books, with a predominant focus on Africa.

Richard Cornwell studied at the School for Oriental and African Studies. He emigrated to South Africa in 1974 and worked variously as a military historian, editor, researcher, and lecturer on African affairs and development studies before taking up his present position at the Institute for Security Studies as head of the Africa Early Warning Programme in 1997.

Indra de Soysa has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Alabama and is a senior research associate at the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, Norway. He is currently editing a bibliography on disarmament and conversion. He has published recently in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, American Sociological Review, and the Environmental Change and Security Project Report.

Mark Duffield is professor of development, democratization, and conflict at the Institute for Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, U.K. His fields of interest include the political economy of internal war, the organization and management of systemwide humanitarian operations, conflict resolution, and social reconstruction. He has worked in both Africa and the Balkans.

Tom Farer is professor and dean of the Graduate School of International Studies at Denver University; former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human rights and the University of New Mexico; legal consultant to UNOSOM II; and former fellow of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Smithsonian's Wilson Center. His latest book is Transnational Crime in the Americas.

Virginia Gamba is the head of the Arms Management Programme at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa. Past postings included director of the Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Project at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in Geneva and program officer for arms control, disarmament, and demobilization at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago. She is an Argentine national.

David Keen is the author of The Benefits of Famine: A Political Economy of Famine and Relief in Southwestern Sudan, 1983–89; The Economic Functions of Violence in Civil Wars;The Kurds in Iraq: How Safe Is Their Haven Now?; and Refugees—Rationing the Right to Life. He is a lecturer in development studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has completed a doctorate in sociology at Oxford University.

David M. Malone has been president of the International Peace Academy since 1998. He has served as Canada's deputy permanent representative at the UN and as director general of the Policy, International Organizations, and Global Issues Bureaus in the Canadian Foreign and Trade Ministry. He is an adjunct professor of law at New York University.

Musifiky Mwanasali specializes in political, economic, and security issues in Central Africa. A faculty member at Sarah Lawrence College, he served as a consultant to the UN Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa. He is currently an information analyst at the Conflict Management Center at the Organization of African Unity.

Samuel D. Porteous is the director of the Business Intelligence Services Group of Kroll Associates Canada, headquartered in Toronto. A former member of the Canadian Foreign Service and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, he has published widely on intelligence, organized crime, and international business issues, including a major study on the impact of organized crime on Canada and the 1998 book Economic Intelligence and National Security, which he coauthored.

William Reno is an associate professor of political science at Northwestern University. He is the author of Corruption and State Politics in Sierra Leone and Warlord Politics and African States (1998, Lynne Rienner). His current research considers why some violent commercial organizations become businesses and others become mafias, and if some become states.

David Shearer is a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He was recently a senior humanitarian advisor to the United Nations stationed in Yugoslavia and Albania during the Kosovo crisis. Previously he has worked in Rwanda and Liberia for the UN humanitarian office and has headed the Save the Children Fund (U.K.) operations in Rwanda, Somalia, Iraq, and Sri Lanka.

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