Lt. Col. Martin Rupiya is a former officer in the Zimbabwean National Army and has operational experience in Mozambique. He is currently Director of the Centre for Defence Studies at the University of Zimbabwe, where he previously completed his PhD on military and security issues in southern Rhodesia during the Federation period. He has written on regional security matters and is author of the Deadly Legacy: Landmines in Zimbabwe (SAPES).
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Alcinda Honwana is a Mozambican anthropologist and senior lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Cape Town. She holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and has specialised in post-conflict healing. She is author of a number of academic articles and is doing research on spirit possession and cultural identity. She has been a consultant for children and war projects in Angola and Mozambique.
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Dylan Hendrickson, a former student of Prince Norodom Ranariddh, is an independent researcher with a particular interest in how peace settlements can better address the societal conditions sustaining violence. He worked as an aide to FUNCINPEC in Cambodia from 1991-93, during the negotiation and implementation of its peace agreement. He completed an MPhil at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex in 1995 and since then has carried out consultancies for the British Government, the United Nations and various NGOs.
Fernando Gonçalves is a Mozambican journalist working in Harare, Zimbabwe. He was until recently the Senior Editor of the magazine Southern Africa Political and Economic Monthly and has now moved to be the Managing Editor of the Southern African Economist. Prior to moving to Harare in 1993, Gonçalves was an editor at the Mozambique News Agency (AIM) in Maputo.
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Dom Jaime Gonçalves has been the Catholic Archbishop of Beira since 1984. In 1989, he became involved in parallel diplomacy to persuade the Renamo rebel movement to negotiate with the Mozambican government. When the peace talks between the government and Renamo began in Rome in July 1990 at the Sant’ Egidio community, he became one of the four mediators facilitating the negotiations.
Richard Wilson is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK. He has written extensively on ethnic movements and political reform in Guatemala, and his books include Maya Resurgence in Guatemala (University of Oklahoma) and Low Intensity Democracy (with B. Gills and J. Rocamora, Pluto Press). In Human Rights, Culture and Context, he turns his attention to the ways in which human rights institutions often ignore social contexts and people's own perceptions of rights violations.
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Rachel Sieder is a lecturer in politics at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. She is also associate research fellow at the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Guatemala, where she is part of a team engaged in research on customary law and the peace process. She is author of Customary Law and Democratic Transition in Guatemala, and editor of Central America: Fragile Transition and Impunity in Latin America. Her research interests include the areas of law, culture, citizenship and democratic transition.
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Tania Palencia Prado is a Guatemalan writer and researcher. She is the editor of the weekly newsletter Inforpress Centroamericana in Guatemala. She has acted as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development (Montreal), the Lutheran World Federation and USAID. She is the author of numerous articles and publications, including Peace in the Making: Civil Groups in Guatemala (London: Catholic Institute for International Relations, 1996).
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Gustavo Palma Murga is a researcher at the Association for the Advancement of Social Sciences, Guatemala City, and also at the Institute of Political and Social Research in the School of Political Science at the University of San Carlos. His research interests include formal education and its relationship with national identity. He is also engaged in research on agrarian issues in Guatemala.
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