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Amb. (ret.) Ochieng Adala, Member, Pugwash Council; Africa Peace Forum (APFO), Nairobi, Kenya [formerly: Permanent Representative of Kenya to the United Nations, NY (1992-93); Deputy Secretary/Director for Political Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (1988-92); Ambassador of Kenya to the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Kingdom of Morocco, Zambia, Algeria and Tunisia (1984-88)]

Prof. Mwesiga Baregu, Professor of International Relations, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania [formerly: Head, Peace and Security Research Program, SAPES Trust, Harare, Zimbabwe]

Dr. Jeffrey Boutwell, Executive Director, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Washington, DC, USA; Member, Pugwash Executive Committee [formerly: Associate Executive Officer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge; Staff Aide, National Security Council, Washington, DC]

Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Chair, Pugwash Executive Committee; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan, Italy; [formerly: Secretary General, Union of Italian Scientists for Disarmament (USPID)]

Mr. Rolf Helmrich, UNDSS Security Training Officer, Somalia [formerly: Lieutenant Colonel (rtd) German Air Force]

Ms. Njeri Karuru, Senior Program Officer, Peace Conflict and Development, International Development Research Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

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. Mitslal Kifleyesus-Matschie, Manager, EuroContact, Jena, Germany; Lecturer, Erfurt University, Germany [Consultant, Technical Secretariat, OPCW, External Relations Division (1994-98); Harvard Sussex Brussels Researcher, Brussels]

Amb. Bethuel A. Kiplagat—Executive Director, Africa Peace Forum (APFO), Nairobi, Kenya; Special IGAD Envoy for Somali Peace Process (2003 – 2004); Kenya Ambassador to France and Kenya High Commissioner to the Court of St. James between 1978 – 1883); Permanent Secretary, Kenya Ministry of Foreign Affairs – 1983 – 1991; Currently, Chairman of Eminent Persons – NEPAD Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM); Chancellor, Egerton University, Kenya.

Dr. Alfred Sebit Lokuji, Consultant—Development, Management, Policy Analysis, Africa Peace Forum (APFO, Nairobi, Kenya [formerly: Director for Civil Service Training—Institute for Development, Environment and Agricultural Studies (IDEAS), Yambio, Sudan (2001); Head of Department and Lecturer, Department of Government and Public Administration, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya (1997-2001)]

Ms. Meghan Madden, Intern, Pugwash Conferences Washington DC office, USA; Graduate Student-Masters in Security Studies, Georgetown University

Dr. Ahmed Ibrahim Mahmoud, Senior Researcher, Al-Ahram Center for Political & Strategic Studies, Al-Ahram Foundation, Cairo, Egypt

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

Dr. Alexander: Nikitin, Professor, MGIMO University, and Director, MGIMO Center for Euro-Atlantic Security, Moscow, Russia; President, Russian Political Science Association; Board member, Russian Academy of Political Sciences; Member of the International Pugwash Council; Director, Center for Political and International Studies; Elected Member, Russian Academy of Military Sciences

Mr. James Thuo Njuguna, Ph.D. candidate, Infectious Diseases and Biological Weapons Threats, University of Bonn, Germany

Dr. Paul Omach, Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science & Public Administration, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Mr. Oyugi Onono, Planning and Coordination Officer, Regional Centre on Small Arms and Light Weapons, Nairobi, Kenya

Prof. Gwyn Prins, Alliance Research Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK and Columbia University, New York. [formerly: Senior Research Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), Chatham House, London; Lecturer in History and Politics, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Emmanuel College]

Mr. Abdiraham Osman Raghe, Somalia, WSP International, Nairobi, Kenya;

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; Professor of Missile Mechanics of Flight, Military Technical College (MTC), Cairo; Member of Strategic Planning Committee, Egyptian Council for Space Research and Technology  [formerly: Deputy Director, Center of Defence Studies, Cairo]

Mr. Francis Sang, Director/Coordinator, Regional Centre on Small Arms (RECSA), Nairobi, Kenya [formerly: Director, Criminal Investigation Department; Senior Deputy Commissioner of Police; Provincial Police Officer]

Mr. George Wachira, Executive Director, Nairobi Peace Initiative, Kenya

Mr. Dominic Welsh, Security Manager, Woodside Energy Kenya (WEK) [formerly: UK government]; field of study: Security and Risk Management