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Devin G. Atallah-Gutierrez lives in Boston, Massachusetts, with his partner and two children and provides home-visiting and community-based psychotherapy services for youth and families living in marginalized communities in Boston. Devin is also a doctoral candidate in the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Clinical Psychology Program, currently working on his dissertation research exploring resilience and resistance journeys with Palestinian refugee families living in territories occupied by Israel, facing intergenerational legacies and ongoing adverse ecologies of war and political repression.

Alex J. Bellamy is Professor of International Security at the Griffith Asia Institute/ Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia. Formerly, he was Executive Director of the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. His recent books include, The Responsibility to Protect and Global Politics (Routledge, 20011), (with Paul D. Williams) Understanding Peacekeeping (2nd edition, Polity, 2010), and Responsibility to Protect: The Global Effort to End Mass Atrocities (Polity, 2009). He has recently completed a monograph on the norm of civilian immunity and has begun work on a history of the UNPROFOR mission in former Yugoslavia.

Kerry L. Bystrom is Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Research Program on Humanitarianism at the Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, Storrs. She has published multiple articles and book chapters on the intersections of literature, cultural studies, and human rights.

Elora Halim Chowdhury is Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her research and teaching interests include transnational feminisms, critical development studies, gender violence and human rights advocacy. She is the author of Transnationalism Reversed: Women Organizing Against Gendered Violence in Bangladesh (SUNY Press 2011).

Chinsung Chung (chungcs@snu.ac.kr) is a Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago. She studies gender sociology, social history, and human rights and has written numerous books on social movements in Japan, Japanese military sexual slavery, and human rights situations in Korea and Japan. She is also a human rights activist as well as a Member of the United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee.

Caroline Davidson is Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law. Previously, she prosecuted alleged war criminals at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the State Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Olivier De Schutter is the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food and professor at the University of Louvain, visiting professor at Columbia University. [End Page 1221]

Asbjørn Eide, dr. juris h.c., is former Director and presently Professor Emeritus at the Norwegian Center for Human Rights at the University of Oslo. He has been Torgny Segerstedt Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, visiting professor at the University of Lund, and is adjunct professor at the College of Law, American University in Washington. He is author and editor of several books and numerous articles on human rights, including on children's rights. He was for twenty years an expert member and former Chairman of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and has also been President of Council of Europe's Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention on National Minorities.

Nir Eisikovits is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Suffolk University where he also directs the program in Ethics and Public Policy. His book Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Negotiation was published by Brill and Republic of Letters in 2010.

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 in Human Rights Review, The Journal of Human Rights Practice, and is forthcoming in Foreign Policy Analysis. Professor Hillebrecht received her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2010 and currently is working on a book manuscript on states' compliance with international human rights tribunals.

Lia Kent is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program, School of International Political and Strategic Studies, Australian National University.

Ashfaq Khalfan is an Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Policy Coordinator at Amnesty International...

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