Contributors
- Contributors
Alex de Waal is a program director of the Social Science Research Council, a senior fellow of the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and a director of Justice Africa in London. He received his DPhil in social anthropology from Oxford University in 1988 and has written or edited thirteen books. Among them are Famine that Kills: Darfur, Sudan, 1984–1985 (Clarendon Press, 1989); Facing Genocide: The Nuba of Sudan (African Rights, 1995); Famine Crimes: Politics and the Disaster Relief Industry in Africa (James Currey, 1997); AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis—Yet (Zed Books, 2006); and, with Julie Flint, Darfur: A New History of a Long War (rev. ed., Zed Books, 2008). He has served as adviser to the African Union mediation team for the Darfur peace talks (2005–2006) and the African Union High-Level Panel on Darfur (2009). He was awarded the Order of the British Empire in the New Year’s Honours List of 2009.
Alan J. Kuperman is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and Senior Fellow of the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas at Austin. He is author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings, 2001) and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (Routledge, 2006). His latest publication is “Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect” (Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, 2009). Prior to his academic career, he worked as legislative director to Congressman Charles Schumer and legislative assistant to Thomas Foley, speaker of the US House of Representatives. In 2009/2010 he will be a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.
Victor Peskin received his PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently an assistant professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of International Justice in Rwanda and the Balkans: Virtual Trials and the Struggle for State Cooperation (Cambridge University Press, 2008). The book was selected as a 2008 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.
Gregory H. Stanton is research professor in Genocide Studies and Prevention at George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia. He is also president of Genocide Watch. Among some of his many key works are “The Eight Stages of Genocide,” in Samuel Totten and Paul Bartrop, eds., The Genocide Studies Reader (Routledge, 2009); “Seeking Justice in Cambodia: Realism, Idealism, and Pragmatism,” in Colin Tatz and Sandra Tatz, eds., Genocide Perspectives III (The Australian Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 2006); “Proving Genocide in Darfur: The Atrocities Documentation Project and Resistance to Its Findings,” in Samuel Totten and Eric Markusen, eds., Genocide in Darfur: Investigating Atrocities in the Sudan (Routledge, 2006); and “Twelve Ways to Deny A Genocide,” in Joyce Apsel, ed., Darfur: Genocide Before Our Eyes (Institute for the Study of Genocide, 2005).
Samuel Totten is a genocide scholar based at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. In 2008 he served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Center for Conflict Management at the National University of Rwanda. In July and August of 2004, Totten served [End Page 394] as one of twenty-four investigators on the U.S. State Department’s Darfur Atrocities Documentation Project whose express purpose was to conduct interviews with refugees from Darfur in order to ascertain whether genocide had been perpetrated or not in Darfur. Based upon the data collected by the team of investigators, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell declared on 9 September 2004, that genocide had been perpetrated in Darfur, Sudan, by Government of Sudan troops and the Janjaweed. Since 2003, Totten has served as the managing editor of a series of volumes entitled Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review. Since 2005, he has served as a co-editor of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, the official journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS). Among the books he has written, edited, and co-edited on genocide are Dictionary of Genocide (Greenwood, 2007); A Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts (Routledge, 2004; 2nd ed., 2008); and Genocide in Darfur: Investigating Atrocities in the Sudan (Routledge, 2006). [End Page 395]
