Kelly Dawn Askin, BS, JD, PhD (law), is the acting Executive Director of the War Crimes Research Office of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the Washington College of Law at American University. She has served as a legal consultant to various UN bodies and agencies, including the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET). Her publications include War Crimes Against Women: Prosecutions in International War Crimes Tribunals (Kluwer Law, 1997), and a 3-volume treastise, Women and International Human Rights Law (Askin & Koenig eds, vol I, 1999; vol II 2000; vol III, 2001).

Gary Jonathan Bass is an assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. He is the author of Stay the Hand of Vengeance: the Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. Formerly a correspondent for the Economist, his articles have also appeared in The New Republic and other publications.

David Bosco is co-director of the Harvard Seminar on Ethics and International Affairs and a third-year student at Harvard Law School.

Susan E. Cook is Director of the Cambodian Genocide Program at Yale University. She hold a Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale,and in addition to her research on comparative genocide, conducts research on social and linguistic changes in post-apartheid South Africa. Her publications include "Documenting Genocide: Lessons from Cambodia for Rwanda," in Democratic Kampuchea and Cambodia Today, Chandler, David P. and Judy Ledgerwood, eds. Southeast Asian Studies Program, Northern Illinois University (forthcoming); "Documenting the Cambodian Genocide: A Truth Commission on the World Wide Web," on www.fathom.com, Columbia University’s interactive knowledge site (2000); "Putting the Khmer Rouge on Trial," (with George Chicas), Bangkok Post, October 31, 1999; "Documenting Genocide: Cambodia’s Lessons for Rwanda," Africa Today 44(2):223-227 (1997), and "The Linguistic Formulation of Emotion in Rwanda: Practical Implications for a Post-genocidal Society" (with Charles Mironko). In SALSA IV: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Symposium about Language and Society—Austin. Eds. A.M. Guerra, C. Tetrault, and A. Chu (1996).

Thierry Cruvellier, whose photographs of the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda appear in this issue, has been a journalist for ten years. Between 1990 and 1996, he covered Sierra Leone. In 1994 and 1995, he spent most of his time in the Great Lakes region, and in Rwanda in particular, working for Reporteurs sans Frontières. In November 1996, he co-founded Intermedia, a French-based NGO, with which he is still associated. He has been based in Arusha since May 1997, covering the trials held before the ICTR. For more information about his organization, see www.diplomatiejudiciaire.com

Leslie Fratkin, creator and project director for Sarajevo Self-portrait, is a freelance photographer based in New York City. Her work is widely published by magazines throughout the world, has been featured in several books, and has been exhibited internationally. Fratkin first went to Bosnia and the city of Sarajevo in 1995 to meet with local photographers, filmmakers, and other artists. Their experiences of war and the nearly four-year siege of their city led her to create Sarajevo Self-portrait: The View from Inside, a book and exhibition featuring the images and words of nine photographers from Sarajevo. She has received numerous grants and fellowships from organizations including the Soros Foundation, The Trust for Mutual Understanding, Righteous Persons Foundation, and Human Rights Watch. National Geographic features her photographs and views about Bosnia on their website: www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/fratkin.

Hugh Griffiths is the Director of the Médecins Du Monde (MDM) Sweden mission in Kosovo. He holds a post-graduate degree in international law & relations, an MPhil and a PhD Research Certificate from the Research Centre for International Political Economy at the University of Amsterdam. Since 1995 he has worked in Burma, Bosnia, Albania, and Kosovo for international organizations and NGOs in program management and human rights.

Ron Haviv is a contract photographer for Newsweek. He has photographed war all over the world, including Rwanda, Colombia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Haiti. His award-winning work has appeared in Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, The New York Times Magazine, Geo, Paris Match, Stern, and most other major newspapers and magazines throughout the world. He was the subject of a National Geographic documentary about war photographers.His book about the collapse of Yugoslavia, Blood and Honey, is currently available in book stores.

Louise Mushikiwabo, a native of Rwanda, has lived since 1986 in Washington, DC, where she works as a public relations consultant. She is co-founder and president of The Rwanda Children's Fund, a charitable organization in the metropolitan Washington area that raises funds to sponsor Rwandan high school teenagers orphaned by genocide. She has spoken extensively about the genocide in international debates, and given newspaper, television and radio interviews on the subject. She is currently a consultant to an Internews project seeking to provide regular information on international justice. www.internews.org/prs/genocide/. Her book on the genocide in Rwanda, King Solomon’s Crimes, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in the Spring of 2002.

Elizabeth Neuffer is a reporter for The Boston Globe. She has covered the Gulf War, the break up of the Soviet Union, the war in Bosnia, and unrest in Kosovo, Albania and Rwanda. While serving as the Globe’s European bureau chief based in Berlin, Neuffer’s reporting from Bosnia earned her several awards, including the Courage in Journalism award. After completing a five-year assignment overseas, Neuffer was awarded the Edward R. Murrow fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, where she began researching a book on war crimes and the tribunals in Bosnia and Rwanda. She finished her book after receiving a grant from the Soros Foundation’s Open Society Institute. The book, The Key To My Neighbor’s House,will be published in the United States in November 2001 by Picador USA/St. Martin’s Press and in England in January 2002, by Bloomsbury Press. It follows the stories of several Bosnians and Rwandans as they search for post-war justice, whether that be confronting a war criminals in the courtroom or uncovering what happened to missing members of their family. Neuffer, based in New York City, is currently covering global issues for The Boston Globe.

Gilles Peress', essays and pictures have appeared frequently in the New Yorker, the New York Times, the London Sunday Times, Stern, Paris Match, Life, TIME, and US News and World Report. He is a contributing photographer at the New Yorker magazine . A member of Magnum Photos since 1974, he has twice served as its president and three times as its vice-president for the US. He is a contributing photographer at the New Yorker magazine. He has been the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (1993), the National Endowment for the Arts (1979, 1992), the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography (1984), the Gahan Fellowship at Harvard (1986), the Open Society Institute (1997), the Mosaique Programme (2000) and is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Human Rights Center of the University of California, Berkeley. He has received several awards including the Overseas Press Club (2000) ICP Infinity Award (1994, 1996), Alfred Eisenstaedt Award (1998, 1999, 2000), and The Erich Solomon Prize (1995). He is the author of four books: The Graves: Srebrenica and Vukovar (1998), The Silence (1995), Farewell To Bosnia (1994), and Telex Iran (1997 reprint, 1984), all published by SCALO Verlag, Zurich. He has exhibited in a number of museums in the United States and Europe, and his work is collected internationally.

Joel Rubin graduated from Columbia University with B.A in History in 1997, after which he photographed extensively throughout Southeast Asia. Returning to New York in 1998, he became the assistant editor at the Media Studies Journal, published by the Freedom Forum’s Media Studies Center. For the past 14 months he has worked as a freelance photographer in Indonesia and East Timor.

Joe Sacco was born in Malta in 1960. He studied journalism at the University of Oregon, graduating in 1981. His books include Safe Area Gorazda (Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2000); Soba (Seattle: Drawn and Quarterly, 1998); Palestine Book 2, Palestine Book 1 (Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1996 and 1994, respectively); and War Junkie (Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 1993). He is the winner of an American Book Award for Palestine 2, and was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant for further research on Bosnia.

Michelle Sieff is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Columbia University who is writing her dissertation comparing state responses to mass atrocity in Africa. Her articles have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor and the World Policy Journal, among other publications.

Anne-Marie Slaughter is the J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School.

Eric Stover is director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. Stover is the author of numerous publications on medicine and human rights, including The Graves: Srebnica and Vukovar (with photographer Gilles Peress); Witnesses from the Grave: The Stories Bones Tell (with Christopher Joyce.); The Breaking of Bodies and Minds: Torture, Psychiatric Abuse, and the Health Professions (with Elena O. Nightingale); Medicine Under Siege in the Former Yugoslavia 1991–1995 (Physicians For Human Rights); Coward’s War: Landmines in Cambodia (Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch); and Landmines: A Deadly Legacy (Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch). His most recent book, with Fred Abrahams and Gilles Peress, A Village Destroyed, will be published by University of California Press in fall of 2001.

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.