Jeremy Brickhill is a Zimbabwean who has worked on security transitions in many African countries, including as a Senior Advisor for Security Sector Planning in Somalia.

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Accord Issue 21: Somalia

Colonel R.J. (Bob) Breen is a military historian and Army Reserve Officer. He serves as Colonel (Operations Analysis) at Land Headquarters in Sydney and has conducted research in Somalia, Rwanda, Mozambique, the Middle East, Bougainville and East Timor.

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Accord Issue 12: Papua New Guinea-Bougainville

David Birmingham is retired Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent at Canterbury, with a special interest in the history of Portugal and its former African colonies, about which he has published widely.

Christine Bell is Director of the Centre for International and Comparative Human Rights Law, Queens University of Belfast and a member of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission set up under the Belfast Agreement. She is currently writing a book on peace agreements, human rights and international law.

Professor Atta el-Battahani teaches at the Department of Political Science at the University of Khartoum.

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Accord Issue 18: Sudan

Sunil Bastian is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Accord Issue 19: Incentives, sanctions and conditionality

Harry Barnes is the Labour MP for Derbyshire North East and a member of the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee at Westminster and the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body. He is also Joint President of the cross-party peace group New Dialogue.

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Accord Issue 8: Northern Ireland

Cedric Barnes is Senior Research Analyst at the Africa Research Group at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

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Accord Issue 22: Cross-border peacebuilding

Laura Baghdasarian is currently the director of the ‘Region’ Centre for Investigative Journalism in Yerevan. A graduate of Moscow State University, she has focused on South Caucasian politics since 1990.

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Accord Issue 17: Nagorny Karabakh

Gegham Baghdasarian is one of the founders and the current director of the Stepanakert Press Club, and editor of the independent newspaper Demo. In 1992-93 he ran the press service of the Nagorny Karabakh Supreme Soviet, and now also serves as a member of parliament of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.

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Accord Issue 17: Nagorny Karabakh