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Toni Ashton, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in Health Economics in the School of Population Health, University of Auckland. Her primary field of research is in the analysis of the organization and funding of health systems with a special focus on health care reform. She has also consulted extensively for international agencies such as WHO and OECD and nationally for health sector organizations.

Kevin Bales is Professor of Contemporary Slavery and Deputy Director at the Wilber-force Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE), at the University of Hull, UK. He was Co-Founder of Free the Slaves, and is Lead Author of the Global Slavery Index.

Chris Bullen is an Associate Professor and Director of the Clinical Trials Research Unit, School of Population Health, The University of Auckland. He is a medically-qualified public health specialist with a Ph.D. in community medicine, and has a background as a primary care clinician and in developing country health program leadership. His current research interests include tobacco control, global health, information technology as an enabler for health interventions, and pragmatic randomized trials.

Monti Narayan Datta is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond. His current book project, forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, focuses on the consequences of anti-Americanism. He is also working on several projects on human trafficking and modern day slavery with Free the Slaves and Chab Dai. Along with Kevin Bales and Fiona David, he is a co-author of the Global Slavery Index: http://www.globalslaveryindex.org.

Keith Doubt is Professor of Sociology at Wittenberg University. He received a B.A., Dickinson College and M.A., Ph.Dc. York University, Toronto, Canada. His teaching interests include Social Theory, American Social Character, Sociology of Mental Health, and Interdisciplinary Courses. He has published articles on a range of sociological theorists: Harold Garfinkel, Georg Simmel, Hans-Georg Gadamer, George Herbert Mead, Jurgen Habermas, Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, and Kenneth Burke. He is the author of Towards a Sociology of Schizophrenia: Humanistic Reflections (University of Toronto Press), Sociology after Bosnia and Kosovo: Recovering Justice (Rowman & Littlefield), Sociologija nakon Bosne (Buybook, Sarajevo), and Understanding Evil: Lessons from Bosnia (Fordham University Press). With Omer Hadziselimovic, he is the co-editor of the interdisciplinary, bilingual journal, Duh Bosne/Spirit of Bosnia. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar in the Faculty of Political Science at University of Sarajevo in 2001and held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Department of Sociology at University of Innsbruck, Austria in 2007. He joined the Wittenberg faculty in 2000. [End Page 502]

A. Belden Fields is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and is the author of Rethinking Human Rights for the New Millennium, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. He has also been active in labor rights issues.

Adam Henschke started his academic career in the applied sciences, then moved from biology to bioethics, completing a Master of Bioethics (2005–2006) at Monash University (Australia) and a Master of Applied Ethics (2006–2007) at the Norwegian University of Technology (Norway) and Linkoping University (Sweden). He was the Centre for Human Bioethics Researcher at the World Health Organisation (2006), a visiting researcher at the 3TU Centre of Ethics and Technology at Delft Institute of Technology (2009), and was a co-recipient of a Brocher Fellowship, researching ethical issues of “Open Health” technologies in Geneva (2012). His Ph.D. dissertation (2007–2013) was conducted at the CAPPE for Charles Sturt University (Canberra), where he also worked as a researcher. In 2014 he taught military ethics at the University of Hong Kong and began a position at the Australian National University. He has published in areas including information theory, ethics of technology, and military ethics, was guest co-editor (with Nicholas G. Evans) of the International Journal of Applied Philosophy’s symposium on War in the 21st Century (Fall, 2012) and his first book, The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War (co-edited with Nicholas G. Evans and Fritz Allhoff) was released in July 2013.

Courtney Hillebrecht is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she specializes in human rights and international law. Her research has appeared...

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