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.

Arturo Carrillo is Lecturer in Law and Associate Director of the Transitional Justice Program of the Human Rights Institute at Columbia Law School. Before joining Columbia Law School in 1999 as a senior fellow, he was Executive Director and founder of the Colombian Institute of International Law, a non-profit organization based in Bogota, Colombia, that specialized in human rights and humanitarian law research. He has published several works on international law and human rights, including Hors de Logique: Contemporary Issues in International Humanitarian Law as Applied to Internal Armed Conflict, American University International Law Review, Vol. 15, No.1 (1999).

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.

Daniel García-Peña Jaramillo served as High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia from 1995 to 1998 and currently heads Planeta Paz, an organization in Bogotá dedicated to fomenting grass-roots participation in the peace process.

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.

Michael Shifter is Vice President for Policy at the Inter-American Dialogue, a Washington-based forum on Western Hemisphere affairs. Since 1994, he has played a major role in shaping the Dialogue’s agenda, and has developed and implemented the organization’s program strategy in the area of democratic governance and human rights. He has also commissioned policy-relevant articles and edited books, and prepared policy reports and other documents. Since 1993, Mr. Shifter has been adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, where he teaches Latin American politics.

Mr. Shifter writes and talks widely on US-Latin American relations and hemispheric affairs. His recent articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Current History, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Journal of Democracy, Harvard International Review and other publications. His writings on democracy and human rights, multilateralism, drug policy, security issues, and Colombian and Peruvian politics have also been published in many Latin American and Caribbean countries, including Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, Peru, Guatemala, Panama, and Jamaica. He has lectured about US hemispheric policy at leading universities in Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, and Guatemala.

He has recently consulted for the Ford Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank, Agency for International Development, Oxfam America, and Swedish Ecumenical Action. In 2000, Mr. Shifter directed an independent task force on US policy towards Colombia, organized by the Dialogue and the Council on Foreign Relations and co-chaired by Senator Bob Graham (D-Fl) and former national security adviser Brent Scowcroft. Mr. Shifter is regularly interviewed by a variety of both US and Latin American media, and often appears on CNN International (English and Spanish). Since 1996, he has testified on six occasions before Congress about US policy towards Latin America.

Prior to joining the Inter-American Dialogue, Mr. Shifter directed the Latin American and Caribbean program at the National Endowment for Democracy and, before that, the Ford Foundation’s governance and human rights program in the Andean region and Southern Cone, where he was based, first, in Lima, Peru and then in Santiago, Chile. In the mid-1980s, he was a Representative in Brazil with the Inter-American Foundation, where he also worked in the Office of Research and Evaluation.

Mr. Shifter is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Latin American Studies Association. He is currently on the editorial board of Foreign Affairs en Espanol and is a contributing editor to Current History. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch/Americas Division, and the Advisory Board of the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University.

Mr. Shifter graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Oberlin College and got a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Harvard University, where he taught Latin American development and politics for four years. April 2001

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.