Robert O. Collins is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara. He is co-author (with J.M. Burr) of Requiem for the Sudan: War, Drought and Disaster Relief on the Nile (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1995).

Donna DeCesare is an award-winning freelance photographer and writer based in New York. Her photographs have appeared in many news and arts publications including The New York Times magazine, Life, Harper's, DoubleTake and Aperture. Among her awards and grants for photographic projects are the Dorothea Lange Prize,1993, a New York Foundation for the Arts Photography grant,1996, the Alicia Patterson Photographic Journalism Fellowship,1997, and the Mother Jones International Photo Fund Award, 1999. Her photographs have been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Her most recent project-- a ten-year exploration of Latin American street gangs that originate in Los Angeles- was exhibited in 2000 at the Visa Pour L'Image Photojournalism Festival in Perpignan, France and won a 2000 Alfred Eisenstadt Award for Magazine Photography and recognition in the 2000 Canon Photo Essay Awards. Ms. DeCesare is currently documenting youth violence and community violence prevention programs in the American hemisphere with support from the Open Society Institute. In January 2002 she will begin teaching documentary photography and video in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin where she plans to collaborate on a number of projects with the Center for Latin American Studies. Her work as Roving Correpsondent for Pixelpress can be seen at www.pixelpress.org/travelogue/ and at her own website www.donnadecesare.com.

Francis Mading Deng was born in 1938 into one of Sudan’s most eminent Dinka ruling clans, and educated at Khartoum University, London University and Yale. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the CUNY Graduate Center-Brookings Project on Internal Displacement. Since 1992, he has served as special representative of the UN Secretary-General on internally displaced persons. He was previously Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the Sudanese government (1976-1980) and ambassador to the United States and Scandinavia. He has written or edited over twenty books on political and social topics, as well as two novels.

Helen Fein is Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, and Research Associate at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She is the author of: Accounting for Genocide: National Responses and Jewish Victimization during the Holocaust (awarded the Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association in 1979); Genocide: A Sociological Perspective (awarded the first PIOOM award, Amsterdam, 1991); and numerous articles on Armenia, Rwanda, Cambodia, Sudan, and Yugoslavia. Dr. Fein is a founder and Past President of the International Association of Genocide Scholars.

Jerry Fowler is Staff Director of the Committee on Conscience of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Sondra Hale is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Women’s Studies at UCLA. She is the author of Gender Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State, and co-editor (with Lako Tongun and Laura Beny), of the forthcoming Perspectives on Genocide in Sudan. Her comments here draw from her chapter in that volume, entitled "By Any Other Name: Internal State and Military/Militia Violence in Sudan".

Randolph Martin is Senior Director for Operations at the International Rescue Committee

John Ryle is Chair of the Rift Valley Institute, a research and training association serving the African Rift Valley region.

Teun Voeten studied Cultural Anthropology in the Netherlands before becoming a photojournalist covering the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Sudan, Rwanda, Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Haiti, and Colombia. In 1996, Atlas – a publishing house based in Amsterdam – brought out his Tunnelmensen, a journalistic/anthropological work about a homeless community living in the train tunnels of Manhattan. Voeten’s latest book, How de Body? Hope and Horror in Sierra Leone, will be published by St. Martins Press in Spring 2002. His photographs on Sierra Leone will be exhibited at the Open Society Institute/Soros Foundation from June 6, 2001 until February 2002. Currently based in New York, Voeten publishes in Vanity Fair, National Geographic Magazine, El País (magazine section), Granta, and other international venues. His photos are used by such organizations as Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, and the International Red Cross. Voeten’s website is www.teunvoeten.com.

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