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297 Con trib u tors Kaw ser Ahmed is a Ph.D. can di date in peace and con flict stud ies, Ar thur Mauro Cen tre for Peace and Jus tice at St. Paul’s Col lege, the Uni ver sity of Man i toba. He is a re tired Lt. Colonel in the Ban gla de shi army who spent time as a peace keeper in Cy prus and the West ern Sa hara. Sean Byrne is a pro fes sor of peace and con flict stud ies and di rec tor of the Peace and Con flict Stud ies Ph.D. and Joint Master’s pro grams, and di rec tor of the Ar thur V. Mauro Cen ter for Peace and Jus tice at St. Paul’s Col lege at the Uni ver sity of Man i toba. He is a for mer vice pres i dent of the Inter na tional Sec tor of the So ci ety for Pro fes sion als in Dis pute Res o lu tion and was also co-chair and board mem ber of the Net work in Com mu nity Peace mak ing and Con flict Res o lu tion. From 2004 to 2006 he served as chair of the peace stud ies sec tion of the Inter na tional Stud ies As so ci a tion. Dr. Byrne also served as ed i tor in chief of Peace and Con flict Stud ies. His pub li ca tions in clude nu mer ous ar ti cles and books. Mary-Alice C. Clancy is a vis it ing re search fel low at the Uni ver sity of Aber deen. She has pre vi ously held re search fel low ships at the uni ver sities of Ex eter and Ul ster. Her re search has fo cused on the United States’ role in North ern Ire land, and has been fea tured in the BBC, the Guar dian, and the Ob server. Her most re cent pub li ca tions in clude (with John Nagle) Shared So ci ety or Be nign Apart heid? Under stand ing Peace build ing in Di vided So ci eties (New York: Pal grave Mac mil lan, 2010) and Peace with out Con sen sus: Power Shar ing Pol i tics in North ern Ire land (Bur ling ton, VT: Ash gate, 2010). Me ghan E. Clarke is a prin ci pal of M E Clarke Con sult ing, LLC, in Cin cin nati, Ohio, where she spe cializes in fa cil i ta tion, me di a tion, or gan iza tional de vel op ment, and con flict en gage ment. Clarke re ceived her bachelor’s de gree from Xa vier Uni ver sity and a master’s de gree in peace and con flict res o lu tion at the School of Inter na tional Ser vice at American Uni ver sity. Pre vi ously, she worked for the ARIA Group and the Search for Com mon Ground. She has de signed, fa cil i tated, and part nered on doz ens of small- and large-scale com mu nity rec on cil i a tion in itia tives. These pro jects in clude en vi ron men tal harms, police-community re la tions, ed u ca tional in eq ui ties, and 298 Contributors religious-based con flicts. Her pub li ca tions in clude “Po la riza tion: The Role of Emo tions in Rec on cil i a tion Ef forts,” Law & Con tem po rary Prob lems 72 (2) (2009): 27–31. Paul Dixon is a reader in pol i tics and inter na tional stud ies in the Fa culty of Arts and So cial Sci ences at King ston Uni ver sity. He has pub lished ex ten sively on North ern Ire land and the peace pro cess. His books in clude North ern Ire land: The Pol i tics of War and Peace, 2nd ed. (New York: Pal grave Mac mil lan, 2008) and North ern Ire land Since 1969 with Ea monn O’Kane (New York: Long man, 2011). His re search on the North ern Ire land con flict has been pub lished in Po lit i cal Stud ies, Re view of Inter na tional Stud ies, Po lit i cal Sci ence Quar terly, Ter ror ism and Po lit i cal Vi o lence...