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Contributors Madeline Baer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine. She received her B.A. in anthropology from American University and her M.A. in political science from the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include human rights, social movements, and global water issues. Clifford Bob is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents , Media, and International Activism (Cambridge University Press, 2005), which won the 2007 International Studies Association Best Book Award and was named a “Top Book of 2006” by The Globalist. He has published widely in academic and policy journals, magazines, and newspapers , including the American Journal of International Law, Foreign Policy, Social Problems, International Politics, and the International Herald Tribune. He holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a J.D. from New York University, and a B.A. from Harvard. His research interests include human rights, globalization, nongovernmental organizations , and transnational advocacy networks. Alison Brysk is Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of The Politics of Human Rights in Argentina (Stanford University Press, 1994), From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America (Stanford University Press, 2000), and Human Rights and Private Wrongs (Routledge, 2005). She has edited Globalization and Human Rights (University of California Press, 2002), People Out of Place (with Gershon Shafir; Routledge, 2004), and National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counter-Terrorism (with Gershon Shafir; University of California Press, 2007). R. Charli Carpenter is Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts -Amherst’s Department of Political Science and the author of Innocent Women and Children: Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians (Ashgate , 2006). She has published extensively on war crimes, humanitarian action, and transnational human rights advocacy and is the editor of Born of War: Protecting Children of Sexual Violence Survivors in Conflict Zones (Kumarian, 2007). She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant to study issue emergence in transnational networks and is currently writing a book about children’s human rights in the former Yugoslavia. Daniel Chong is Assistant Professor at Rollins College in Orlando, Florida, teaching courses in international relations, human rights, and global social justice. He holds a Ph.D. from the School of International Service at American University. He is working on a book entitled Reconstructing Rights, which explains how the application of the human rights framework to global poverty is changing our understanding of how human rights are useful. He has published in Development and Change and has an article forthcoming in Human Rights Review. In addition to his academic pursuits, he has worked for over a decade in nonprofit organizations engaged in international humanitarian assistance, democracy promotion, peace advocacy, and economic justice. Janet E. Lord is a human rights law practitioner and scholar specializing in human rights institution building, international disability rights, and inclusive development. She is Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law, where she teaches international human rights law, and is a cofounder of BlueLaw International LLP, an international law and international development firm based in Washington, D.C. She is coauthor of Human Rights. YES! Action and Advocacy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (University of Minnesota Human Rights Center, 2007) and a forthcoming treaty commentary, The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (Cambridge University Press). Julie Mertus is Professor and Co-Director of the M.A. Program in Ethics, Peace, and Global Affairs at American University. An authority on the Balkans, she has worked on gender and human rights issues for governmental , intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations, including UNHCR, USAID, the Norwegian government, the Open Society Institute , Women for Inclusive Security, and the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. Her book Bait and Switch: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2008) was named “human rights book of the year” by the American Political Science Association 180 Contributors Human Rights Section. Her other books include Human Rights and Conflict (United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007), The United Nations and Human Rights (Routledge, 2005), Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War (University of California Press, 1999), and Local Action/ Global Change, a training manual on the human rights of women and girls (translated into a dozen languages; a new edition appearing in...

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