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Contributors Reva N. Adler is a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of British Columbia who focuses on working with older adult survivors of genocide and on violence prevention research. In 2006, Dr. Adler completed the first phase of the study Addressing the Root Causes of Genocide (ARC-G), funded by the Fulbright Scholarship Board of the US Department of State, the University of British Columbia, and the Vancouver Coastal Research Institute. Dr. Adler has been invited to participate in a number of international consortia addressing genocide prevention, including the Stockholm International Forum and the Tenth Anniversary Conference Commemorating the Rwandan Genocide, and she has consulted on issues of primary violence prevention for the UN Office of the Special Rapporteur on Genocide Prevention, the US Department of State, the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission in Rwanda, and USAID. The results of ARC-G Phase 1 will be published in a variety of scholarly journals in 2007. Gerry Caplan is an independent scholar and activist who focuses mainly on genocide and African underdevelopment. He has undertaken a series of assignments for the African Union and several UN agencies dealing with the well-being of African children; he was senior adviser to the former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa and chair of the International Advisory Board of the University of Toronto’s Special Initiative on AIDS in Africa. He is the author of Rwanda: The Preventable Genocide (2000), the comprehensive report of the International Panel of Eminent Personalities appointed by the Organization of African Unity to investigate the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. He has just completed a book titled The Conspiracy against Africa, which will be published in 2008 by Groundwood Press. Anuradha Chakravarty is a PhD candidate in the Department of Government at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She is completing her dissertation, which is titled ‘‘The Politics of Moral Ambition: The Gacaca Tribunals for Genocide Crimes in Rwanda.’’ The Ford Foundation–funded Workshop on Transnational Contention, the Peace Studies Program at Cornell University, and the Einaudi Center at Cornell supported eighteen months of fieldwork in Rwanda. For the year 2007–2008, she will be a Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Thierry Cruvellier is a French journalist and author who, in 1996, co-founded Diplomatie Judiciaire (Arusha, Tanzania), the online newspaper on international justice. Since 1997, he has covered the hearings of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). In 2002 his investigative reports led to the withdrawal of the indictment and release of one of the accused at the ICTR. Cruvellier has written a book in French on the Rwandan Genocide. Between 1994 and 1996, he regularly covered the war in Sierra Leone as a freelance journalist. He also worked with Reporters Sans Frontières, an international human-rights organization defending the freedom of the press, for which he was the permanent representative in the African Great Lakes region in 1994 and 1995. In 2003 he moved to Freetown, where he began covering the Special Court for Sierra Leone and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. ‘‘Contributors.’’ Genocide Studies and Prevention 2, 3 (November 2007): 299–302. ß 2007 Genocide Studies and Prevention. doi: 10.3138/gsp.2.3.299 Cruvellier holds a master’s degree in journalism from Sorbonne University, Paris; in 2003/2004, he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Lee Ann Fujii, Assistant Professor of Political Science at George Washington University in Washington, DC, has conducted research into the social dimension of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. During the course of her research, which spanned some nine months of fieldwork in Rwanda, she conducted interviews with killers, victims, bystanders, resisters, and rescuers from two rural communities. She is currently in the process of completing a book on the Rwandan Genocide. Judith Globerman is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Health Promotion Research at the University of British Columbia. Cyanne E. Loyle is a Graduate Fellow in the University of Maryland’s Department of Government and Politics. She received her Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. In 2004, Loyle served as the Documentation...

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