Alastair Crooke served as adviser on security issues to European Union (EU) High Representative Javier Solana and was instrumental in facilitating various ceasefires between 2002 and 2003 in the Israeli-Palestinian context. He was an intermediary on behalf of the EU in facilitating the Hudna (truce) of June 2003.
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Michael Comerford is a consultant to Development Workshop’s peace programmes in Luanda and Huambo. He holds a PhD on ‘Angolan peace narratives, from Bicesse to death of Savimbi’.
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Phil Champain is Director of Programmes at International Alert. He has worked in the Caucasus, Nepal, Liberia and Sri Lanka, facilitating dialogue between conflicting parties and has also written widely on economic aspects of conflict resolution.
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Lee Cassanelli is Director of the African Studies Center and Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Jimmy Carter was President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and is founder and Chair of The Carter Center, a non-partisan and not-for-profit organisation that advances peace and health worldwide.
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HE Nicolas Bwakira is Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia.
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Rex Brynen is Professor of Political Science at McGill University, Canada. He has served as a member of the policy staff of the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and as a consultant to the Canadian International Development Agency, the World Bank, the United Nations and others.
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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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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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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.
