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Paige Arthur is Deputy Director of the Research Unit at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), where she currently manages a project on identity politics and transitional justice. For more than five years, she was an editor of the journal Ethics & International Affairs, published by the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. She was also the Senior Program Officer for the Ethics in a Violent World initiative at the Carnegie Council. Her most recent work includes this history of the field of transitional justice and an article on transitional justice as a response to ethnic conflict. She has also published articles on political violence, decolonization, and identity politics in Theory & Society, Ethics & International Affairs, and the book Race After Sartre (Jonathan Judaken ed., 2008). She holds a Ph.D. in European history, focusing on European decolonization, from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Unfinished Projects: Decolonization and the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre, (Forthcoming Verso Books in 2010).

Jacqueline Bhabha is the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School. She is also a lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She directs Harvard’s University Committee on Human Rights Studies. The author of numerous articles on refugee protection, migration, and asylum, she is working on a book on child migrants. Prior to working in the academy, she was a practicing human rights lawyer in the United Kingdom.

Ken Betsalel is Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina-Ashville. His areas of interest include political theory, human rights, and documentary photography and film. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dana Dasch-Goldberg is a Program Assistant at the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture. She holds an M.A in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University and a B.A in Anthropology from The George Washington University.

James Dawes is the founder and director of the Program in Human Rights and Humanitarianism at Macalester College. He is the author of That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity (Harvard University Press, 2007) and The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the US from the Civil War through World War II (Harvard University Press, 2002), along with numerous articles appearing in such journals as Critical Inquiry and the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities.

Mark Gibney is the Belk Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. His latest book projects include the edited volume The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007) and International Human Rights Law: Returning to Universal Principles (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008). [End Page 562]

Marlies Glasius is a lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics, University of Amsterdam and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of The International Criminal Court: A Global Civil Society Achievement (2006) and a founding editor of the Global Civil Society Yearbook. Her present research interests include global civil society, economic and social rights, the International Criminal Court, and human security.

Scott Jerbi is Senior Adviser with Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative ( http://www.realizingrights.org ). He worked previously with the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Allen Keller is an internist, is the founder and director of the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture and serves as a primary care physician for many patients in the Program.

Bronwyn Leebaw is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. Her research focuses on transitional justice, human rights, and humanitarianism.

Ann Elizabeth Mayer is an Associate Professor of Legal Studies in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught law courses on subjects including law and policy in international business, globalization and human rights, comparative law, Islamic law in contemporary Middle Eastern legal systems, and introductions to US law. She earned a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern History from the University of Michigan in 1978...

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