Kumudini Samuel is joint coordinator of the Women and Media Collective (WMC) and editor of Women's Rights Watch, both in Colombo. She has worked on the monitoring and advocacy of Human and Women's Rights in Sri Lanka for the past twenty years through the WMC, INFORM and the Movement for Inter Racial Justice and Equality (MIRJE).
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Liz Philipson has been involved in Sri Lankan issues for over 15 years. From 1993-97, She worked as South Asia Programme Manager at International Alert and directed several conflict resolution initiatives within Sri Lanka. Previously, she was a researcher in the UK House of Commons. She is Chair of War on Want, a British Development Charity. She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Elizabeth Nissan works as a freelance researcher and writer on human rights, specialising on Sri Lanka. Since working for a number of years as a researcher on South Asia for Amnesty International, she has undertaken work for various organisations including Article 19, the Minority Rights Group, and the Law and Society Trust, Colombo. She is the author of Sri Lanka: A Bitter Harvest (Minority Rights Group, 1996).
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Priyath Liyanage worked as a journalist in Sri Lanka before joining the BBC World Service in London as a freelancer in the late 1980s. In subsequent years, he became a senior producer at the BBC before being appointed Editor of the Sinhala Service in 1997. He writes on Sri Lankan politics for a variety of radio and television audiences.
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Rohan Edrisinhe is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Colombo. He was Co-Director of the Centre for Policy Research and Analysis (CEPRA), University of Colombo from 1992-95. He is now a Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives, an independent public policy institute particularly interested in conflict resolution.
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A. Joseph Chandrakanthan is a Catholic priest of the diocese of Jaffna and a permanent staff member of Jaffna University. In late 1995, he had to leave Jaffna and now resides in Canada where he teaches at Concordia University in Montreal. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Ottawa and a Theology Doctorate from St Paul University, Canada.
Rahmatillo Zoir is Chair of the Tajikistan Juridical Consortium and Chair of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan.
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Randa Slim is Executive Director of SLIM & Associates and a member of the Inter-Tajik Dialogue.
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Harold Saunders is Director of International Affairs at the Charles F. Kettering Foundation and served previously as the United States' Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. He was co-moderator of the Inter-Tajik Dialogue.
Abdunabi Sattorzoda was Deputy Chair of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan Almaty platform between 1995 to 1999 and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2000.
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