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CONtrIbutOrs Andrea Bartoli is a senior fellow at the Center for Peacemaking Practice and the dean of the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. He works primarily on peacemaking and genocide prevention. Bartoli was the founding director of Columbia University’s Center for International Conflict Resolution, and he has been involved in many conflict resolution activities as a member of the Community of Sant’Egidio (www.santegidio.org/en). The most recent books that he coedited are Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory (2011) and Attracted to Conflict (2013). His new book is Negotiating Peace: The Role of NGOs in Peace Processes (2013). Stephen Burgess is professor of international security at the US Air War College . His three books are South Africa’s Weapons of Mass Destruction, Smallholders and Political Voice in Zimbabwe, and The United Nations under Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 1992–97. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on African security and strategic issues. Burgess received a doctorate from Michigan State University and has been on the faculties of the University of Zambia and the University of Zimbabwe . Florence Gaub is a senior analyst at the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies. She works on Arab military forces, with a special focus on conflict and postconflict contexts, such as Lebanon, Libya, and Iraq. Her publications include Military Integration after Civil Wars (2010) and NATO and the Arab World (2013) as well as numerous articles. Gaub received her PhD from Humboldt University in Berlin. Rosalie Arcala Hall is a professor of political science at the University of the Philippines Visayas in Miagao, Iloilo. She has been a recipient of research grants from the Fulbright Program, Toyota Foundation, Nippon Foundation, East Asian Development Network, and Austrian Exchange Services. Her research on postconflict civil–military relations has involved extensive fieldwork in Aceh in Indonesia, Dili in Timor Leste, and Mindanao in the Philippines. Her essays have been published in the Philippine Political Science Journal, Asian Security, and the Korean Journal of Defense Analysis. Hall received a PhD in public and international affairs from Northeastern University in Boston. Caroline Hartzell is a professor of political science at Gettysburg College. Her current research focuses on the effects the terms of civil war settlements have CONtrIbutOrs 294 on the quality of the postconflict peace. Her publications include Crafting Peace: Power-Sharing Institutions and the Negotiated Settlement of Civil Wars, coauthored with Matthew Hoddie (2007); and Strengthening Peace in Post–Civil War States: Transforming Spoilers into Stakeholders, coedited with Matthew Hoddie (2010). Paul Jackson is a professor of African politics and head of the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham. He has had twenty years of international experience in research, teaching, and policy advice. He is currently a senior security and justice adviser for the UK Stabilisation Unit, a member of the Folke Bernadotte Academy working group on security-sector reform, and an advisory board member of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. Jackson was educated as a political economist, and his specialization has been governance , specifically security governance, justice, and decentralization, particularly in postconflict and fragile environments. He has extensive overseas experience and has taught for several years on governance, security, and postconflict reconstruction. His publications include Reconstructing Security after Conflict: Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone, with Peter Albrecht (2010); Security Sector Reform in Sierra Leone 1997–2007: Views from the Front Line, editor (2010); and Conflict, Security and Development , with coauthor Danielle Beswick (2011). Ronald R. Krebs is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He is the author of Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship (2006); and coeditor of In War’s Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy (2011). He is also associate editor of Security Studies, and he has been named a Fulbright senior scholar (2012) and a McKnight Land-Grant Professor at the University of Minnesota (2006–8). David D. Laitin is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. As a student of comparative politics, he has conducted field research focusing on issues of language and religion and how these cultural phenomena link nation to state, in Somalia, Yorubaland, Nigeria; Catalonia in Spain; Estonia; and France. His books include Politics, Language, and Thought: The Somali Experience; Hegemony and Culture: Politics and Religious Change among the Yoruba ; Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa; Identity in...

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