Contributors
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Jean Allain is Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Department of Political Science, The American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat is Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at Purchase College of the State University of New York. She also serves as the Founding President of the Human Rights Section of the American Political Science Association. Her publications include journal articles and book chapters on topics related to democracy, human rights, and women's rights. She has also authored the books Democracy and Human Rights in Developing Countries (1991) and Deconstructing Images of "The Turkish Woman" (1998). Currently she is working on a book manuscript, tentatively entitled Human Rights Policies and Politics in Turkey.
Jeff J. Corntassel (Cherokee Nation) is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His main research and teaching interests include global indigenous rights, ethnonationalism, and international law organizations. His forthcoming book entitled Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges to American Indian Sovereignty (Fall/2002), University of Oklahoma Press) examines indigenous political mobilization in the US and in global forums during the 1990's.
Susan Dicklitch is Assistant Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. She is also the author of The Elusive Promise of NGOs in Africa: Lessons from Uganda (1998).
Caroline Dommen received her L.L.M. in Law and Development, from the University of London, in 1991. She is the Director of 3D Associates, Geneva. This article was completed in December 2000.
William F. Felice is Associate Professor of Political Science at Eckerd College. He is the author of Taking Suffering Seriously: The Importance of Collective Human Rights (State University of New York Press, 1996) and a number of articles on the theory and practice of human rights.
Barbara Harrell-Bond is founding Director of the Research Studies Center (RSC) (formerly Research Studies Program (RSP)), 1982–1996. She began her academic career as an anthropologist conducting research in an urban housing estate near Oxford. She received a Diploma in Social Anthropology (Dis.), an M. Litt. and a D.PHIL. at the University of Oxford. As a member of the staff at the Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, her first research in Africa in 1967 looked at marriage among the professional group in Sierra Leone. On the basis of this research [End Page 317] she went on to specialize in the anthropology of law, as a researcher at the Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden and teaching for the Faculty of Law, University of Warwick. In 1982 she began research on the delivery of humanitarian assistance, particularly by the United Nations and its agencies, international and human rights law, especially as this affects refugees, asylum seekers, and other displaced population groups, development, ethnicity and gender issues. The majority of her research has been conducted in Africa, but she has also carried out fieldwork in the Middle East and Central and Southern Europe. She has served as a consultant to many international humanitarian organizations such as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the EU, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and the World Food Program. She has been the recipient of many research grants, and, in 1996, was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the American Anthropological Association. Since retirement she has been a Visiting Professor at Makerere University and took up the appointment of Distinguished Adjunct Professor, American University Cairo in September 2000.
Cindy Holder is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Her main areas of research are social and political philosophy and the philosophy of law.
Christopher Nowlin has a B.A.(Honors) in philosophy from the University of Calgary (1985), an M.A. in philosophy from Brock University (1988), an L.L.B. from the University of Ottawa (1991), an L.L.M. from the University of British Columbia (1993), and a Ph.D. in criminology from Simon Fraser University (1998).
Andreas O'Shea is Senior Lecturer at the University of Durban-Westville, South Africa.
Steven C. Poe is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas. His...
