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Monisha Bajaj is Assistant Professor of Education in the Programs in International and Comparative Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests center on the meanings of education, peace, and human rights education, and educational innovation in the global South. She is also the editor of the Encyclopedia of Peace Education (Information Age Publishing, 2008) and the author of a Spanish-language teacher training manual on human rights education (UNESCO, 2003).

Richard Pierre Claude is from St. Paul, Minnesota, and finished his graduate work as a Thomas Jefferson Foundation Fellow at the University of Virginia. He is Professor Emeritus of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland and was a Visiting Professor at Princeton University where he inaugurated a college course on "Science and Human Rights." Claude is the Founding Editor of Human Rights Quarterly (Johns Hopkins University Press) and author of Educating for Human Rights: The Philippines and Beyond (University of Hawaii Press, 1997). He is the co-editor of several books published by the University of Pennsylvania Press: Human Rights and Statistics: Getting the Record Straight (1991); Human Rights in the World Community (a college textbook, 1992); and Human Rights Education for the 21st Century (1997). He was consulting author/editor for The Bells of Freedom (Ethiopia) and Le Tissage de la Liberte.

Bas de Gaay Fortman is the Emeritus Chair in Political Economy of Human Rights at Utrecht University.

Olivier De Schutter is Professor of Human Rights Law, University of Louvain (UCL); Visiting Professor, Columbia University; UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food.

Mark Gibney is the Belk Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. His most recent book publications include International Human Rights Law: Returning to Universal Principles (Rowman & Littlefield 2008) and two edited volumes The Age of Apology: Facing Up to the Past (Mark Gibney et al. eds., Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 2007) and Universal Human Rights and Extraterritorial Obligations (Mark Gibney & Sigrun Skogly eds., Univ. of Pennsylvania Press 2010); Sabine Carey, Mark Gibney & Steven Poe, The Politics of Human Rights: The Quest for Human Dignity (Cambridge Univ. Press 2010). Gibney has managed the coding for the Political Terror Scale (PTS) since 1984. He received the 2006 International Human Rights Award from the N.C. Human Rights Coalition. He was named 2008 visiting distinguished professor in the faculty of law at Lancaster University in England.

Petra Goedde is Associate Professor of History at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Her research interests are in US foreign relations, transnational, culture, and gender history. She is the author of GIs and Germans: Culture, Gender, and Foreign [End Page 589] Relations, 1945-1949 (Yale 2003), and articles on US foreign relations and the globalization of American culture. She is co-editing an anthology on Human Rights as History for Oxford University Press. Besides human rights history, her current research interests and projects include a history of global culture since 1945 and a book-length study of the global discourse on peace during the cold war.

Simeon O. Ilesanmi (BA Hons., University of Ife; J.D., Wake Forest School of Law; Ph.D., Southern Methodist University) is the Washington M. Wingate Professor of Religion, Wake Forest University, where he teaches and writes in the areas of comparative ethics, political theory, and religion and law. He is an associate editor of Journal of Religious Ethics and serves on the editorial boards of several other journals. His current research projects focus on human rights, ethics of war, and religion, law, and politics in Africa.

Neophytos Loizides is a Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict at Queen's University, Belfast. His recent publications include articles published or forthcoming in Journal of Peace Research, International Studies Perspectives, Nationalities Papers, Nations and Nationalism, Cooperation and Conflict, Middle Eastern Studies and Parliamentary Affairs. He has previously held fellowships at the Belfer Centre at Harvard and the Solomon Asch Centre at the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as the Associate Editor of Nationalism and Ethnic Politics. Contact: School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen's University Belfast, 21 University Square Belfast, BT7 1PA Northern Ireland Tel: +44 (0) 2890973231 Fax: +44 (0) 2890975048...

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