Prof. B. Nyeko is Associate Professor of History at the University of Swaziland, Southern Africa having previously taught at the National University of Lesotho, the University of Zambia, and Makerere University in Uganda.
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Okello Lucima is an independent researcher and Kacoke Madit Regional coordinator for Canada. His research interests are in global environmental politics, sustainable rural livelihoods, human rights and politics & government in Uganda.
Caroline Lamwaka is a freelance journalist and peace researcher. She has covered the civil war and peace process in northern Uganda from 1987 to the present. Since 1999 she has been the chairperson of Gulu Hope for Peace. She is presently a Fellow at the Human Rights Center, the University of California at Berkeley.
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Ambassador Kiplagat is presently the Director of the Africa Peace Forum, Kenya. At the time of the 1985 Nairobi agreement he was Permanent Secretary in the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and played a key role in facilitating the negotiations. He has extensive peacemaking experience in Africa, including a prominent role in the Mozambican peace process.
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Dr Chris Dolan lived in northern Uganda in the late 1990s while working for the NGO ACORD. He completed his doctorate from the London School of Economics in 2005. His book, Social Torture; the Case of Northern Uganda, 1986-2006, was published in April 2009 (Berghahn Books). Since July 2006 he has been Director of the Refugee Law Project, Makerere University, Kampala.
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Lara Olson was Project coordinator for the Norwegian Refugee Council in Georgia (1996–98), managing repatriation and assistance efforts in South Ossetia and co-ordinating the Georgian-Ossetian Dialogue Project with the Conflict Management Group.
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Ghia Nodia is Chairman of the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, an independent think tank in Tbilisi, and a sociology professor at Tbilisi State University. He has participated in dialogue and academic meetings with representatives from Abkhazia. His most recent international fellowship was at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.
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Susan Allen Nan has engaged in second track conflict resolution work on the Georgia–Abkhazia conflict through George Mason University and the University of California at Irvine. She received a United States Institute of Peace 1997–98 Peace Scholar Fellowship which supported the research for her article.
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S. Neil MacFarlane is Lester B. Pearson Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford, Professorial Fellow at St Anne’s College and Director of Oxford’s Centre for International Studies. In 1997, with colleagues at Brown University, he completed a monograph on humanitarian action in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that followed a companion study on Georgia’s civil conflicts published in 1996.
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Liana Kvarchelia is a community facilitator in Abkhazia. She has previously worked with the Centre for Humanitarian Programmes, a Sukhum-based NGO working on projects related to conflict resolution, and has extensive experience of participation in meetings with NGO representatives from Georgia.
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