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Adila Abusharaf obtained a Doctorate of Juridical Science from University of Toronto, Canada in 2000. She is presently working as a Program Officer at the regional Center of Arab Women for Training and Research based in Tunisia. She co-authored and published scholarly articles in the fields of reparation of sexual violence experienced by women during armed-conflicts and resettlement and compensation of displaced communities from oil-rich Southern Sudan.

Waheeda Amien is a Ph.D. Candidate in Ghent University's Faculty of Law. Her thesis focuses on the conflict between the right to religious freedom and Muslim women's rights to equality. She has worked on issues pertaining to women's human rights in her capacity as researcher, trainer, and law clinician at various institutions including the South African Legal Aid Board, South African Parliament, University of Cape Town's Law, Race and Gender Research Unit, University of the Western Cape's Legal Aid Clinic, and Ghent University's Human Rights Centre. She also serves on the board of several South African human rights organizations.

Denis G. Arnold received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Minnesota and is a past fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a member of the Philosophy Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. His books include The Ethics of Global Business (Blackwell, 2006) and the co-edited Rising Above Sweatshops: Innovative Management Responses to Global Labor Challenges (Praeger 2003). His numerous articles on ethics and business ethics have appeared in leading academic journals and are widely reprinted.

Ken Betsalel is an Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Asheville. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include human rights and health, the politics of culture and disability studies. He can be contacted at Betsalel@unca.edu.

Carolyn Dresler is the Head of the Unit for Tobacco and Cancer Group at the International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon, France. She trained at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Surgical Oncology and the University of Toronto in Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery (US Board Certified), and is also US Board Certified in General Surgery. She has practiced at Washington University (St. Louis, MO) and Fox Chase Cancer Center (Philadelphia, PA). She was active in multiple national clinical and transnational cancer research programs through several intergroups such as CALGB, ECOG and RTOG. Her particular interest and expertise is in the susceptibility of women in the development of lung cancer. She has been on the Boards of Women in Thoracic Surgery and Woman Against Lung Cancer. After leaving clinical surgery, Dr. Dresler became the Medical Director for Research and Development for Smoking Control at GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare. In 2002–2003 she completed a Masters in Public Administration at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University to pursue international tobacco control policy. Her academic interests involve the biologic initiation of tobacco related cancers, the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer, nicotine addiction particularly as it affects smoking cessation, the susceptibility of women to lung cancer, and the global issues of tobacco control.

Ron Dudai is a research fellow at the Hotung Program in Law, Human Rights and Peace Building in the Middle East, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His recent academic publications appeared in Terrorism and Political Violence, Yearbook of Islamic and Middle-Eastern Law and Journal of Conflict and Security Law. His current research focuses on the applicability of transitional justice concepts to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Laura P. Hartman graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University and received her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. She is Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at DePaul University and is responsible for coordinating the development of new academic programs. She is also a Professor of Business Ethics and Legal Studies in the Management Department in DePaul's College of Commerce, where she has received the university's Excellence in Teaching Award. Hartman's scholarship focuses on the ethics of the employment relationship with a primary emphasis in the areas of global labor conditions and standards, corporate governance and corporate culture, and the...

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