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The 56th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs

A Region in Transition: Peace and Reform in the Middle East
11-15 November 2006, Cairo, Egypt
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Participant List


Dr. Sadek Abdelaal, Founder and Chairman, PeaceDiatrics Society, Cairo, Egypt; Pediatrician, Cairo University, Children’s Hospital

Gen. (ret.) Mansour Abu Rashid, Chairman, Amman Center for Peace and Development, Amman, Jordan

Amb. (ret.) Ochieng Adala, Member, Pugwash Council; Senior Program Officer, Africa Peace Forum (APFO), Nairobi, Kenya

Amb. Wa’el N. Al-Assad, Director, Disarmament & Multilateral Relations Department, League of Arab States, Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Adel Mohamed Ali, Lecturer in Nuclear Law and Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Nuclear Law and Nuclear Regulations Dept., National Center for Nuclear Safety and Radiological Control, Atomic Energy Authority of Egypt, Cairo

Mr. Mishal Al-Kuwari, Secretary to the Assistant Foreign Minister H.E. Mr. Mohamed Al-Rumaihi, Oatar

H.E. Mr. Mohammed Al-Rumaihi, Assistant Foreign Minister for Follow-up Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Doha, Qatar

Dr. Ibrahim Bahr Alolom, former Minister of Oil, Baghdad, Iraq

Dr. Athem Alsabti, Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of London Observatory / University College London; International Relations Officer for the Iraqi Academy of Science

Amb. Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Chairperson, National Commission for Minorities, New Delhi, India; Chairman, Working Group I of Prime Minister of India’s Round Table on Jammu and Kashmir

Prof. Gabriel Baramki, Consultant to the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education, Ramallah; President, Palestinian Council for Justice and Peace

Mrs. Haifa’ Baramki, Freelance Consultant in Education & Management, Ramallah, Palestine; President of the  YWCA Ramallah Branch; Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of PANORAMA (Palestinian Center for the Dissemination of Democracy & Community Development)

Dr. Kayhan Barzegar, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Islamic Azad University (IAU), Science and Research Campus; Editor-in-chief, Journal of Law and Politics; Senior Research Fellow, Center for Scientific Research and Middle East Strategic Studies, Tehran;

Mr. Omar Bashir Mohamed, National Director, Somali Studies Center (SSC), Mogadishu, Somalia; and Team Leader, Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies, Somalia

Amb. Sergey Batsanov, Director, Geneva Office of International Pugwash; Member, Pugwash CBW Steering Committee; Senior Consultant, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

Dr. Jeffrey Boutwell, Executive Director, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Washington, DC, USA; Member, Pugwash Council

Dr. Adele Buckley, Chair, Canadian Pugwash Group; Vice President, Technology & Research, Ontario Centre for Environmental Technology Advancement (OCETA), Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Prof. Francesco Calogero, Member, Pugwash Council; Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy

Col. (ret.) Pierre Canonne, Member, Pugwash Council [formerly: Senior Lecturer, Disarmament and Arms Control, Univ. Marne-la-Vallés/Paris, France

Dr. Thomas B. Cochran, Director, Nuclear Program, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Washington, DC, USA

Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Member, Pugwash Executive Committee; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan, Italy

Dr. Parvin Dadandish, Researcher and Lecturer, International Relations University, Tehran, Iran

Ms. Merav Datan, Political Advisor, Mediterranean and Middle East, Greenpeace International

Ms. Nicola Davies, Peace & Disarmament Campaign Coordinator, Greenpeace International

Prof. Nola Dippenaar, Health Consultant (Health Insight), Pretoria, South Africa

Prof. Lynn Eden, Member, Pugwash Council; Associate Director for Research/Senior Research Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University, Stanford, California; USA,  Co-Chair U.S. Pugwash Group

Prof. Hassan El- Hayawan, Professor of Business Administration, Faculty of Commerce, Ain- Shams University, Cairo, Egypt; Board Member, Pugwash Egypt; Director, Marketing and Business Development, IT Ventures

Amb. Abdel Raouf El-Reedy,Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Amany El-Taweel, Senior Expert, Al-Ahram, Cairo, Egypt

Prof. Wimal Epasinghe, Advisor to the President of Sri Lanka on Scientific Affairs, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Prof. Emeritus. Yair Evron, Tel-Aviv University (TAU), Israel

Maj. General (Ret) Dr. Esmat Ezz, former Member, Pugwash Council; retired Professor, Military Medical Academy, Cairo, Egypt; and formerly: Director, Scientific Research Branch, Egyptian Armed Forces; Director, Technological Promotion System, Giza

Dr. Inas Ezz, Lecturer on Information Systems & Computing, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, Cairo, Egypt; Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Information Systems & Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge Middlesex, UK

Dr. Nihal Fahmy, Adjunct Professor, American University in Cairo, Egypt

H.E. Mr. Abdulla Fakhroo, Minister Plen., Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Doha, Qatar

Mr. Mirwaiz Omar Farooq, Chair, All Parties Hurriet Conference (APHC), Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India

Mrs. Maha Fattah-Hassan, Writer & Analyst, and Senior Columnist & Writer, Akhbar el Yom Newspapers, Cairo, Egypt; Member, Council on Foreign Relations

Dr. Eric T. Ferguson, Secretary of Pugwash Netherlands; Consultant on Energy and Development, MacFergus bv, Zeist, Netherlands

Prof. John Finney, Professor of Physics, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, UK

Prof. Bastiaan (Bas) de Gaay Fortman, Chair in Political Economy of Human Rights, Faculty of Law, Utrecht University, Monsignor Willy Onclin Professor of Comparative Canon Law, Catholic University Louvain, and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, Netherlands, The Netherlands

Prof. Georg Frerks, Professor of Conflict Prevention and Conflict Management, Centre for Conflict Studies, Utrecht University, The Netherlands; Professor of Disaster Studies, Wageningen University; Chairman, Pugwash Nederland

Ms. Claire Galez, Director, Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS), Geneva, Switzerland; Research Associate, Centre for Asian Studies (Geneva University – GIIS/GIDS)

Prof. Galia Golan-Gild PhD, Professor of Government, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel; Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Prof. Dr. rer. pol.Tim Guldimann, on leave from the Swiss Foreign Ministry, teaching at the University of Frankfurt, Germany, formerly: Swiss Ambassador in Tehran (1999-2004); Head of the OSCE Mission in Croatia, Ambassador 1(997-99); Head of the OSCE Assistance Group in Chechnya, Ambassador (1996-97)

Amb. Ahmed Haggag, Secretary General of Africa Society, Cairo, Egypt; National Coordinator of Capacity Building in Human Rights (with the UNDP); Member: Egyptian National Council on Human Rights, Institute of African Studies, Cairo University, African Governance Institute, Dakar, Senegal; Advisor to the President of the Union of African Journalists

Prof. Karen Hallberg, Member, Pugwash Council; Professor of Physics, Balseiro Institute, Bariloche, Argentina; Research Fellow, National Council of Science and Technology, Centro Atomico Bariloche

Dr. Tom Børsen Hansen, External Lecturer, Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Science Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Member, Executive Committee, International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES)

Dr. David Harries, Executive Director, Master of Arts Programme in Security and Defence Management and Policy, Royal Military College of Canada

Mrs. Anissa Hassouna, Board Member & Treasurer, Equptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA), Cairo, Egypt; Assistant Genearl Manager, Misr Iran Development Bank; Treasurer, The Egyptian Pugwash Society for Science and International Affairs (under establishment)

Prof. Robert Hinde, former Royal Society Research Professor (now retired) [also formerly: Master, St. John’s College, Cambridge, UK; Hon. Director, Medical Research Council (MRC) Unit on the Development & Integration of Behavior]

Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy, Member, Pugwash Council; Professor of Nuclear Physics, Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan; Chairman of Mashal Books; independent documentary filmmaker for popularizing science in Pakistan; activist for peace and social reform; Member of Permanent Monitoring Panel on Terrorism of the World Federation of Scientists

Mr. Paul  Horsman, Peaceful Energy Campaign Co-ordinator, Rainbow Warrior Middle East Project, Greenpeace International, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Mr. Hou Hongyu, Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament (CPAPD), Beijing, China

Ahmed Ibrahim, Hhead of Defense and Security Division in the African Union (AU)

Mr. Happymon Jacob, Lecturer, Department of Strategic & Regional Studies, University of Jammu, J&K, India

Dr. Rebecca E. Johnson, Executive Director, The Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy, London, UK

Mr. Jon Yong Jin, Korean National Peace Committee (KNPC), Pyongyang City, DPR Korea

Dr. Venance Journé, Researcher, National Scientific Research Council (CNRS), Paris, France

Dr. Riad Kajwaji, Chief Executive Office, Institute for Near East & Gulf Military Analysis (INEGMA), Dubai, UAE

Gen. Jehangir Karamat, recently retired Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States; Member Advisory Council, Institute of Public Policy, Beaconhouse National University; Member, Board of Governors, Islamabad Institute of Policy Research

Ms. Salome Katia, Executive Secretary, The Great Lakes Parliamentary Forum on Peace – AMANI Forum, Nairobi, Kenya; Organizing Secretary, Women Educational Researchers of Kenya; Ph.D Candidate, University of South Africa

Dr. Tadahiro Katsuta, Researcher, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Dr. Ayman Khalil, Center for Research on Arms Control and Security (CRACS), Amman, Jordan

Mr. Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan, Supreme-Head of All Jammu and Kashmir Muslim Conference; Ex-President/Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan

Dr. Mustafa Kibaroglu, Associate Professor (non-proliferation, arms control & disarmament matters), Bilkent University, International Relations Department, Bilkent, Ankara, Turkey

Kim Il-Bong, Secretary-General, Korean National Peace Committee (KNPC), Pyongyang City, DPR Korea

Prof. Yoshiko Kurita, Professor of Middle Eastern History, Department of History, Faculty of Letters, Chiba University, Japan

Dr. Emily Landau, The Jaffee Center for Security Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel

Dr. Francesco Lenci, National Research Council (CNR) Research Director, Pisa, Italy; President-Elect (2003-05) and, starting September 2005, President of the European Society for Photobiology; Member (Elected), CNR General Scientific Council

Mr. Li Guofu, Senior Research Fellow, Director of Division for South Asia, Middle East and African Studies, China Institute of International Studies (CIIS), Beijing, China

Mr. Sverre Lodgaard, Director, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI), Oslo, Norway

Mr. Sajad Gani Lone, Chairman, Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Conference, Srinagar, J&K

Prof. Saideh Lotfian, Member, Pugwash Council; Associate Professor of Political Science, and Associate Dean for Research, Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, Iran

Dr. Dmitry Makarov, Executive Director, International Center for Strategic and Political Studies, Moscow, Russia

Dr. Riad Malki, Director General, Panorama, The Palestinian Center for the Dissemination of Democracy and Community Development, Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine

Amb .Miguel Marin-Bosch, Director, Mexico’s Diplomatic Academy, Mexico D.F.; Member, Pugwash Council

Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Talat Masood, Independent Columnist, Commentator and Analyst, Islamabad, Pakistan

Prof. Jiri Matousek, Professor of Toxicology, Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Science, EU Research Centre of Excellence for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology, Brno, Czech Republic

Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu, Jammu, J&K, India

Prof. Alan H. McGowan, Chair, Science, Technology and Society Program, Eugene Lang College, New School University, New York, NY, USA; Chair (voluntary position), Student Pugwash USA

Acad. Jorma K. Miettinen, Academician and Emeritus Professor of Radiochemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland; Emeritus Professor of Military Science, Institute of Military Science; President, Finnish Pugwash Group

Dr. Steven Miller, Director, International Security Program, Center for Science & International Affairs (CSIA), Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Prof. Ramaranka Anderson Mogotlane, Vice Rector/Deputy Vice Chancellor, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Prof. Tim Morrison, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA

Amb. Abdel Rahman Moussa, Consultant to the Minister for International Cooperation, Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Robert Mtonga, Public Medical Practitioner & Peace Activist, International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW), Lusaka, Zambia

Hon. Mehbooba Mufti, Member of Parliament and President, Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Democratic Party

Prof. Marie Muller, Chair of the Pugwash Council; Dean, Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Prof. Giuseppe Nardulli, Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Bari, Italy

Ms. Carol Naughton, Coordinator WMD Awareness Programme (WMD AP), London, UK

Dr. Götz Neuneck, Physicist, and Member, Pugwash Council; Head of the “Interdisciplinary Research Group Disarmament, Arms Control and New Technologies”, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), Hamburg, Germany

Prof. Nguyen Van Dao, Chairman of the Scientific & Training Council, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Vietnam

Dr. Alexander Nikitin, Member, Pugwash Council; Director, Center for Political and International Studies (CPIS), Moscow, Russia

Mr. Niu Qiang, Secretary General, Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament (CPAPD), Beijing, China

Muhammad M. Parray, Chief Spokesperson of the Pradesh Congress Committee, Jammu and Kashmir

Prof. Ashok Parthasarathi, Professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India; Member, Governing Board, The South Centre, Geneva

Mr. Matthias Peitz, Political Officer, European Commission Delegation to the State of Israel [formerly: Project Officer, Bertelsmann Foundation

Dr Arthur Petersen, Senior Policy Analyst and Director, Methodology & Modeling Program, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP), Bilthoven, The Netherlands

Prof. Alan Pisano, Dept. of Engineering, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA

Prof. Sergei Plekhanov, Associate Professor, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Ron Pundak, Director-General, The Peres Center for Peace, Tel Aviv, Israel

Prof. Ramamurti Rajaraman, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Mr. Ri Kang Jin, Korean National Peace Committee (KNPC), Pyongyang City, DPR Korea

Senator Douglas Roche, O.C., Member, Pugwash Council; Chairman, Middle Powers Initiative; Author, Lecturer; Member of the Senate of Canada

Mr. Roger Roffey, Research Director, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Stockholm; Member of the Board, Swedish Pugwash Group

Dr. Erzsébet N. Rózsa, Senior Researcher, Teleki Institute Center for Foreign Policy Studies, Budapest, Hungary; Professor at the Kodolányi János University College

Ms. Christine Rovner, Executive Director, Student Pugwash USA, Washington, DC

Ms. Nihal Saad, Senior Political Correspondent and Director of Political Programs, Nile TV Int’l, Cairo, Egypt

Mr. Nasser Saghafi-Ameri, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy and International Relations Department (FPIRD), Center for Strategic Research, Tehran, Iran

Dr. Abdel Monem Said, Director, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS), Al-Ahram Foundation, Cairo, Egypt

Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Mohamed Kadry Said, Member, Pugwash Council; Head of Military Studies Unit and Technology Advisor, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, Al-Ahram Foundation, Cairo, Egypt

Prof. Mostafa-Elwi Saif, Professor of Political Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Dr. Walter Scheuer, now retired [formerly: Senior Project Manager (1989-93), Invap S.E. (a government-owned, advanced technology company); Senior Researcher/Head of Department (1953-1989), Argentine Atomic Energy Commission]

Amb. Renato Carlos Sersale di Cerisano, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic to South Africa; Non-resident Ambassador to Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe and non-resident Ambassador-designate to Malawi, Mauritius and Mozambique (since March 2006) [formerly: Director of International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs]

Amb. Mohamed Shaker, Vice Chairman, Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs (ECFA), Cairo, Egypt

Dr. El Sayed Shalaby, former Ambassador and currently Executive Director, Egyptian Council For Foreign Affairs (ECFA), Cairo, Egypt

Dr.  Rifat Shannak, Amman, Jordan

Mr. Samir Shawa, Chairman, Alhani Cultural Foundation, Gaza City, Palestine

Mr. Henry Siegman, U.S./Middle East Project, Inc., New York, NY, USA

Dr. Nirmal Singh, BJP Representative, Jammu

Prof. Ivo Slaus, Member, Pugwash Council; Director, World Academy for Southeast Europe Division; President, Croatian Pugwash

Prof. Fernando de Souza Barros, Member, Pugwash Council; Professor Emeritus, Physics Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Baroness Charlotta Sparre, Counsellor, Swedish Permanent Representation to the EU, Belgium, Brussels

Dr. Mark Byung-Moon Suh (Germany/South Korea), Member, Pugwash Council; Senior Researcher and Korea Coordinator, Free University of Berlin, Germany; President, Korean Pugwash Group

Dr. Olga Sukovic, Freelance Consultant on Security and Disarmament matters [formerly: Consultant, UN Department for Disarmament Affairs, New York; Scientific Adviser, Institute of International Politics and Economics, Belgrade, Yugoslavia

H.E. Ambassador Takaya Suto, Director, Center for the Promotion of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Japan Institute of International Affairs, Tokyo, Japan; Member, Japan-Arab Dialogue Forum

Dr. Tatsujiro Suzuki, Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy (GRASPP), The University of Tokyo; Senior Research Scientist, Socio-economic Research Center, Central Research Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI), Tokyo; Co-Founder, Peace Pledge, Japan

Prof. M.S. Swaminathan, President, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Chairman, National Commission on Farmers, Govt. of India; Chairman, MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai

Dr. Giancarlo Tenaglia, voluntary Staff Member, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Rome, Italy; Member, Italian Pugwash Group [formerly: Safety Engineer, Energy, Environment, & Technological Innovation Research Center (ENEA)]

Dr. Mahmoud Vaezi, Deputy of Foreign Policy Research, Center for Strategic Research, The Expediency Council, Tehran, Iran [formerly: Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs]

Prof. László Valki, Professor of International Law, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary; Head, NATO Information and Research Center at Eötvös University

Acad. Alexey Vasiliev, Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) Corresponding Member; Director, Institute for African and Arab Studies, RAS; Editor-in-chief, Asia and Africa Today monthly magazine; Chief of foreign policy experts under Chairman of Council of Federation (Senate) of the Russian Parliament, Moscow

Mr. Péter Wagner, Research Fellow, NATO Information and Research Centre, Budapest, Hungary; Editor-in-chief, Kül-Világ journal [formerly: Ministry of Interior, Department for EU and NATO Coordination]

Prof. Siddiq Wahid, Vice Chancellor, Islamic University, Kashmir; Maharaja Gulab Singh Chair Professor, University of Jammu, Jammu, J&K State, India

Ms. Carin Atterling Wedar, Lector, Theological Faculty, University of Gothenburg; Secretary-General, Swedish Initiative for Peace, Security and International Relations (SIPSIR), Stockholm; Member, Swedish Pugwash Group

Dr. Detlev Wolter, Vice-President of the First Committee of the UN General Assembly;  Political Counsellor, German Mission to the UN, New York, NY

Ms. Abeer Yassin, Researcher, Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS), Cairo, Egypt

Yu Kyong-Il, Secretary, Korean National Peace Committee (KNPC), Pyongyang City, DPR Korea

Dr. Nicholas Zarimpas (Greece), International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA), Vienna, Austria

Amb. Bozorgmehr Ziaran, Delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the OPCW, The Hague, The Netherlands, E-mail: ziaran@yahoo.com

Dr. Aharon Zohar, Senior Consultant on national planning to the National Planning Administration, and Head of the construction of 11 Bedouin new towns; Consultant, Regional and Environmental Planning, Carmei-Yosef, Israel 

Dr. Bob van der Zwaan, Senior Scientific Researcher, Energy Research Center of the Netherlands


International Student/Young Pugwash Participants  

Mr. Almotaz Abadi, Engineer and Deputy Director, Palestinian Water Authority (PWA), Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine, MSc student, Birzeit University

Mr. Peter Bebawy, Pharmacist, Habib Estephane St., Zeitoun, Cairo, Egypt, Tel.: (++20-2) 256 4983, Cairo, Egypt

Mr. Adam John Breasley, International Network for Bioethics, Culture and Disability, Melbourne, Australia; also involved in Beyond Nuclear Initiative and 3CR Community Radio, Melbourne [formerly with GeneEthics Network Australia and Australian Associated Press; Foreign Expert Teacher on WTO, Environment and Development, Beijing-USA College]                                  

Mr. László Csicsmann, Business School, Institute for International Studies, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary

Ms. Aleksandra Dzisiów-Szuszczykiewicz  (M.A.), PhD student, Department of Iranian Studies, Warsaw University

Dr. Inas Ezz, Lecturer on Information Systems & Computing, Sadat Academy for Management Sciences, Cairo, Egypt; Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Information Systems & Computing, Brunel University, Uxbridge Middlesex, UK

Dr. Antoinette Hildering, Title: Ph.D., LL.M., Director, MeerKeuze/MultipleChoice, Arnhem, The Netherlands

Mr. Karim Kadry, Sales & Contracts Supervisor, Egyptian Drilling Company, Cairo, Egypt; Head, Egyptian Student Young Pugwash

Mr. Hussein Karakra, Head of Reinsurance Dept., Trust International Insurance Company, Palestine

Mr. Rian Leith, Lecturer in History, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, Faculty of the Humanities, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa; Lecturer, Department of Journalism, Tshwane University of Technology; ISYP Board member (African Representative)

Mr. Eli Lipetz, Recent Graduate, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

Mr. Kareem Madkour, Development Engineer, Mentor Graphics, Cairo, Egypt; Msc Student Ain Sham University Faculty of Engineering

Ms. Kate Marvel, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University, UK; Research Scholar, Trinity College Cambridge [formerly: Teaching Assistant and Researcher, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences; Researcher, Smoot Group, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory]

Dr. Irna van der Molen, Senior Lecturer, Dept. Technology and Sustainable Development (T&SD), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands  [formerly: Researcher / junior consultant, Geoplan International (April 1996- May 1997); Researcher IDEM Consult (November 1993- April 1996)]

Miss Immaculate Dadiso Motsi, Assistant Junior Lecturer, University of Pretoria, South Africa; Research Assistant, Center for International Political Studies (CIPS)

Ms. Nermine Mounir, Project Coordinator, Dreamers of Tomorrow, Cairo, Egypt

Ms. Wakana Mukai, Doctorate Student, University of Tokyo Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, Japan

Ms. Salma Nagy, Shell Egypt, Egypt

Ms. Zohar Navot, The Inter Disciplinary Center (IDC) Herzlia, Kanfei Nesharim St. Herzlia, Israel

Mr. Nagappan Parasuraman, Asian Board Member, International Student/Young Pugwash, Chennai, India; Research Assistant, M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation, Chennai, India

Mr. Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, PhD Student, Science Studies Unit, University of Edinburh; Chair of the Executive Board, International Student/Young Pugwash

Dr. Joelien Pretorius, Lecturer, Department of Political Studies, University of Western Cape, Belville, South Africa

Mr. Noam Rahmim, Assistant to CEO, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Tel-Aviv, Israel; TA assistant

Mr. Benjamin Rusek, Research Associate, Committee on International Security and Arms Control (CISAC), National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, USA

Ms. Sebnem Udum, Bilkent University,  Department of International Relations Bilkent/Ankara Turkey

Ms. Ulrike Wunderle, PhD student, University of Tübingen, SFB “Kriegserfahrungen”, Germany

Mr. Moeed Yusuf, Consultant, Economic Policy, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan; Regular columnist (freelance), The Friday Times; Consultant, Asian Development Bank, Innovative Development Strategies, Pakistan; Visiting Faculty, Quaid-e-Azam University, Pakistan [formerly: Research Intern, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC]