Tofik Zulfuqarov served as foreign minister of Azerbaijan 1998-99, and as deputy foreign minister 1994-98. He has participated extensively in Armenian-Azerbaijani negotiations, and now serves as Azerbaijan’s ambassador to Latvia.
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I William Zartman is the Jacob Blaustein Professor Emeritus at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the John Hopkins University, and member of the Processes of International Negotiation (PIN) Program at Clingendael. His doctorate is from Yale (1956) and his honorary doctorate from Louvain (1997). His books include Negotiation and Conflict Management (Routlege - 2008), and Understanding Life in the Borderlands: boundaries in depth and motion (ed.) (University of Georgia Press 2010).
Rubén I. Zamora was Project Manager for the Interpeace Somali Democratisation Project (2004-06). He is President of the Salvadorian Institute for Democracy (ISPADE) and is a member of the 'Círculo de Copan', an academic and lobbying group for Central American Integration. He is a founder and Board member of Interpeace global programme.
Julen Zabalo is a Doctor of Political Geography and a professor at the University of the Basque Country’s sociology department. He is author of a number of publications on Basque nationalism, including Euskal Nazionalismoa eta Nazio lurraldea (Bilbao: UEU, 1996) and Abertzaleak eta Ezkertiarrak (Donostia: Elkar, 1998).
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Irwandi Yusuf is the Governor of Aceh. A former commander in the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), he was imprisoned in 2003 but escaped when the Keudah Prison was destroyed by the tsunami of December 2004. He subsequently participated in the Helsinki peace negotiations.
Haji Abdi Hussein Yususf ‘Abdi Warabe’ is one of oldest and well known genuine traditional leaders in Somaliland. He is the second deputy chair of the Elders House (Guurti) of the Somaliland bi-cameral parliament. He was instrumental in the 1993 Borame conference where the successful social contract was agreed among the Somaliland clans. His traditional title is ‘chief Aqil’.
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Arif Yunusov was a research fellow at the Azerbaijani Academy of Sciences 1972-92, before directing the information unit of the presidential administration 1992-93. He now heads the Department of Conflict and Migration Studies at the Institute of Peace and Democracy in Baku.
Abdulaziz Ali Ibrahim ‘Xildhiban’ is a British-Somali author and peace activist. He studied political science and international relations at the University of Florence. He is also director of Xildhiban Publications.
