Tadjbakhsh is based in Paris, France, where she directs a concentration on Human Security at the Master’s of Public Affairs (MPA) at Sciences Po, Paris. She founded a program for peace and human security at Sciences Po and launched the Journal of Human Security/la revue de Sécurité Humaine.

Chetan Bhatt is currently the director of the Centre for the Study of Human rights at LSE (since April 2010. He was previously Professor of Sociology and Head of Department at the Department of Sociology), Goldsmiths, University of London.

David Chandler is Professor of International Relations, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster. He is the editor of the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding and the related Routledge book series.

Senior Researcher at the European Academy Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC), Research Department “Minorities and Autonomies” http://www.eurac.edu/index

Coordinator of the EURAC – Institutes IMR (Institute for Minority Rights) and EURASIA-Net (EU FP7 Research Programme)  http://www.eurac.edu/Org/Minorities/IMR/index.htm;

Patricia Justino is a development economist specialising in applied microeconomics. Her current research work focuses on the impact of violence and conflict on household welfare, the microfoundations of violent conflict and the implications of violence for economic development.

Professor Peter Ronald deSouza, the Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, assumed charge in December 2007. Prior to this he was Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies where he was Co-Director of the Lokniti programme on Comparative Democracy.