Participants

 

Douglas Bettcher is Coordinator of the World Health Organization. He received MSc and PhD degrees in Public Health (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and International Relations (London School of Economics and Political Science), after practicing as a medical doctor in Canada and Ethiopia for an NGO and the United Nations. Dr. Bettcher has published many articles and presented papers at international conferences, focusing on the impact of globalization upon public health in developing countries.
                                                                bettcherd@who.ch


Reuben Brigety is Researcher with the Arms Division of Human Rights Watch in Washington, DC, the largest U.S.-based international human rights organization. Mr. Brigety served as a political-military analyst on the staff of the Chief of US Naval Operations. He is due to receive his doctoral degree at Cambridge University with specialization in International Relations in the fall of 2001.
                                                                  brigetr@hrw.org


Laurie Calhoun has been writing on war since the 1999 bombing of Kosovo. She is a regular contributor to Peace Review, and her essays have also appeared in Dissent, Peace & Change, the International Journal of Human Rights, Politics, Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, New Political Science, the Journal of Social Philosophy, Philosophical Forum, Dialogos, Journal of Applied Philosophy, The Independent Review, Peace & Conflict Studies, and elsewhere. She has criticized "just war theory" and examined the concepts of "terrorism" and "legitimate authority to kill", in addition to considering whether war can ever be justified on utilitarian grounds. Calhoun is currently completing work on her second book, tentatively titled, War & Delusion. Her graduate work was done in philosophy at Princeton University, and her first book, Philosophy Unmasked: a skeptic's critique, was published by the University Press of Kansas in 1997. Calhoun has been active in the American Philosophical Association, and her writing on war commences from her convictions that the perspectives of all people are equally valuable, and that the principle of simple consistency rationally requires governments to allow the policies that they adopt to be adopted by others as well. Calhoun works as an administrator at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.


                                                              calhoun@fas.harvard.edu


Earl Conteh-Morgan is Professor of International Studies in the Department of Government and International Affairs, University of South Florida. He has published four books on peacekeeping and democratization in Africa. Dr. Conteh-Morgan's articles have appeared in Armed Forces & Society, Journal of Social Philosophy, Peace and Conflict Studies, International Journal of Peace Studies, among others. A former Nobel Senior Research Fellow, Dr. Conteh-Morgan has offered his expertise on peace, conflict, and development to the US State Department, the World Bank, and a few NGOs.

                                                             conteh-m@chuma1.cas.usf.edu


Juergen Dedring served as United Nations Senior Officer, Department of Humanitarian Affairs (1992-1996) and Political Officer, Department of Political and Security Council Affairs (1975-1987) following the receipt of a Ph.D. degree in Political Science at Harvard University. He has also been teaching at New York University, City University of New York, and Dartmouth College. He has several books and many journal articles on international organizations, UN Security Council and conflict management.

                                                                     dedring@erols.com


Ho-Won Jeong is Associate Professor for the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University. His current research areas include structural sources of conflict, social change, and peacebuilding. Dr. Jeong published a series on research in peace and conflict studies comprised of The New Agenda for Peace Research (1999), Conflict Resolution: Dynamics, Process and Structure, and Peace and Conflict Studies: An Introduction (2000) in addition to many journal articles. He is Senior Editor of International Journal of Peace Studies (published in association with the International Peace Research Association’s Commissions) and served as the founding editor of Peace and Conflict Studies (sponsored by the Network of Peace and Conflict Studies).

                                                                  hwjeong@gmu.edu


Hiroyuki Matsumura is Director of the World Food Programme Office in Japan. After working for commercial companies and UNDP in Latin America, he joined WFP and conducted food aid projects in Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, Cape Verde, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau for 20 years.
                                                           hiro.matsumura@wfp.or.jp (English only)


Susan McKay is Professor of nursing, women's and international studies at the University of Wyoming and a psychologist in private practice. She is past president of the Division of Peace Psychology of the American Psychological Association. Her awards include the Year 2000 Presidential Award for research from the University of Wyoming, US West Excellence in Education, Woman of Achievement from the Wyoming Commission for Women, and DePauw University's Alumni Citation. She was awarded fellowships from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and the International Federation of University Women and was selected as a scholar in residence at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center in Italy. She has published over 40 journal articles, book chapters and three books.

                                                                mckay@uwyo.edu


Noboru Miyawaki is Assistant Professor at Matsuyama University. He specializes in regime theory in the field of International Relations, and recently focuses on the activities of OSCE for conflict resolution and preventive diplomacy in Europe. Dr. Miyawaki has published many articles on democratization and implementation of human rights norms with special reference to OSCE, in addition to theoretical issues of human security.

                                                           miyawaki@cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp


Katsuya Mochizuku is Associate Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Developing Economies (IDE), Japan. He has been engaged in many research projects in various parts of Africa, especially in Nigeria, since he received an MA degree in International Relations (Tokyo University) and joined the IDE in 1985. He has published many articles on the issues of development, democratization and foreign aid in Africa and Asia.

                                                                   motizuki@ide.go.jp


Hideaki Shinoda is Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace Science, Hiroshima University. He is the author of Re-examining Sovereignty and many articles on norms and values in international society. Prior to his academic career and the receipt of a PhD degree at the London School of Economics and Political Science, he worked as a temporary staff member of a Japanese NGO for refugees and the United Nations in Iran, Djibouti, and Cambodia. Recently, Dr. Shinoda has been studying “peace-building activities from the perspective of rule of law."
                                                                  
                                                             hshinoda@hiroshima-u.ac.jp


Jim Whitman was Senior Fellow for Social Science, Cambridge University, England, and now serves as a faculty member at Bradford University’s Peace Studies Department. He has edited and authored several books on global governance, peacekeeping and humanitarian intervention in addition to many journal articles.

                                                             J.Whitman@bradford.ac.uk