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Tristan Borer is Associate Professor of Government at Connecticut College. She is the author of Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa, 1980–1994 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998). She has published several articles on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Katherine Covell is Professor of Psychology and Co-Director of the Children’s Rights Centre at the University College of Cape Breton. She is the co-author of many articles and book chapters on children’s rights and of the recent book The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001).

Kanwalroop Kathy Dhanda is Assistant Professor, Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. School of Business Administration, University of Portland.

John W. Dietrich is Assistant Professor at Bryant College in Rhode Island. He earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. His research has focused on US foreign policymaking, security issues, and US human rights policy.

Ellen Dorsey is Senior Fellow, Environment Program, at Heinz Endowments in Pittsburgh. She is conducting research on environmental health rights issues. She is the former Executive Director of the Rachel Carson Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science at Chatham College. Dorsey is also currently conducting a multi-year research project on “The New Rights Advocacy of Global NGOs,” documenting the adoption of economic, social, and cultural rights agendas by environment, human rights, and development organizations. Prior to coming to Chatham, Dorsey served as the founding director of the Just Earth! Program on human rights and the environment at Amnesty International USA, where she conducted research and developed campaign actions on the global link between human rights and environmental issues. She has published numerous articles and monographs on transnational social movements, human rights, the United Nations world conferences, and South Africa. She was a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa in 1992–1993, after completing her doctorate in Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh, 1992.

Mark Freeman, a Canadian lawyer, is a former Senior Associate at the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ). He previously worked at the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and as a lawyer at a private law firm in Toronto. He has published work on human rights topics in a number of books and law journals. He is currently working as a consultant to the ICTJ and writing a book on International Human Rights Law in Canada. [End Page 1174]

Michael Goodhart, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. His research focuses on democracy and human rights in the context of globalization. He has published on the threat globalization poses to democracy, on sovereignty, and on questions of historical interpretation in political theory. He can be reached at goodhart@pitt.edu.

Ronald Paul Hill is the Bank of America Endowed Professor and Founding Dean, College of Business, University of South Florida St. Petersburg.

R. Brian Howe is Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Children’s Rights Centre at the University College of Cape Breton. He is the co-author of many articles and book chapters on children’s rights and of the recent book The Challenge of Children’s Rights for Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001).

Evan T. Kennedy received his B.A. in English and Political Science from Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut, where he served as Research Assistant for the Political Science Department during 1999–2000 academic year. He currently lives in Berkeley, California.

Anthony J. Langlois is Lecturer in International Relations at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia. He was educated at the University of Tasmania and the Australian National University. Langlois is the author of The Politics of Justice and Human Rights: Southeast Asia and Universalist Theory (Cambridge University Press, 2001). He has published articles in journals such as Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Review of International Studies, Policy Organisation and Society, and Quadrant, with forthcoming articles in Political Studies, The Australian Journal of Human Rights, and The Routledge Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics (Martin Griffiths ed.). His areas of academic interest include International Relations, Political Philosophy, Human Rights Theory...

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