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* = mailing address [Affiliations listed are for information only. All participants are taking part in their personal capacity. Please report any changes to Claudia Vaughn, so that a corrected list can be distributed to you by email.] Mr. Sardar Attique
Ahmed Khan, President, All Jammu & Kashmir Muslim Conference,
and Member, Legislative Assembly, Azad Mr.
Imtiaz Alam, Secretary General, South Asian Free Media Association
(SAFMA), Lahore, Pakistan; Senior Editor, The News, Islamabad
and Lahore Prof.
Mohammad Hamid Ansari, Distinguished Fellow, Observer Research
Foundation (ORF), New Delhi; Visiting Professor, Academy of
Third World Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India [formerly:
Vice Chancellor, Aligarh Muslim University, India; Permanent Representative
of India to the United Nations; Ambassador to UAE, Australia, Afghanistan,
Iran, Saudi Arabia] Prof. Noor Ahmad Baba,
Professor and Head, Dept. of Political Science, Kashmir University,
Srinagar, Kashmir, India Mr. Jatendra Bakshi,
President, Action Committee for Return of Migrants, Satwari, Jammu
(J&K), India; President, J&K Society of Technocrats; Secretary
General, Jammu Consumers Council [formerly: Chief Engineer, J&K
State in Jammu & Kashmir government] Ms. Hameeda Bano,
Chair, Initiatives for Women & Children; Patron of Future Vision
Model School, and associated with peace movements & human rights
associations; Founding Member, Women Waging Peace, Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University—a collaborative international
initiative for peace Ms.
Sushobha Barve, Founding Member, Executive Secretary and Program
Director, Centre for Dialogue and Reconciliation, Mumbai, India;
Founding Trustee, Mumbai Mohalla Committee (work that played
a major role in bringing Mumbai back on its feet and created a mechanism
of citizen–police partnership to prevent communal conflagurations);
Author of Healing Streams - Bringing Back Hope in times of Crisis,
Penguin Books India Mr.
Ved Bhasin, Chairman, Kashmir Times Group of Newspapers; President,
J&K Institute of Peace, Justice and Democracy, Jammu Prof. Abdul Gani Bhat,
President, Muslim Conference Jammu & Kashmir, Srinagar, and Professor
of Persian Hon. Ahsan Iqbal Chaudhary,
Chief Coordinator, PML-N; Chairman, Better Pakistan Foundation;
Professor of Management, M.A.Jinnah University, Blue Area, Islamabad
[formerly: Deputy Chairman (Minister of State), Planning Commission,
Govt of Pakistan; two-term Member, National Assembly (1993, 1997)] Barrister Sultan Mehmood
Chaudhry, Leader of the Opposition in AJK Legislative Assembly,
Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir [formerly: Prime Minister of Azad J&K] Prof.
Rekha Chowdhary, Professor of Political Science, University
of Jammu, India [formerly: Head, Dept. Of Political Science, University
of Jammu (Jan. 1999-Dec. 2001); Honorary Director, Centre for Strategic
& Regional Studies, Univ. of Jammu (until August 2003)] Mr. Ghulam Rasool Dar,
General Secretary, JKLF, Srinagar, J&K, India [formerly: Executive
Engineer in government of Jammu & Kashmir] Mr. Mirwaiz Omar Farooq,
Chair, All Parties Hurriet Conference (APHC), Srinagar, J&K, India Mdm.Claire Galez,
Director, Centre for South Asian Studies (CSAS), Geneva, Switzerland Ms.
Nasreen Hamid, Chair, Global Women’s Lib, New Delhi,
India Mr.
Khalid Ibrahim, People’s Party of J&K, Islamabad,
Pakistan Happymon Jacob,
Lecturer, Centre for Strategic & Regional Studies, University
of Jammu, J&K, India [formerly: Research Associate, Observer Research
Foundation, New Delhi] Mr. Imran Jeelani,
Spokesperson, Democratic Freedom Party AVM
(retd) Kapil Kak, Additional Director, Centre for Strategic
& International Studies, New Delhi, and Adviser (Strategic Studies),
University of Jammu, Jammu, India [formerly: Deputy Director, Institute
for Defense Studies & Analyses, New Delhi] Mr. Farooq M. Kathwari,
Chairman, President and CEO, Ethan Allen Inc., Danbury, CT, USA; Chairman,
Kashmir Study Group Mr. Muhammad Abdul Razzaq
Khan Khaleeque, President of Jammu Kashmir National Awami Party
(JKNAP), Muzaffarabad, Azad J&K [retired civil servant: Additional
Secretary and Professor of English Literature] Mr. Raja Muhammad Farooq
Haider Khan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Azad
Jammu & Kashmir [formerly: Senior Minister, Gov’t of Azad
Jammu & Kashmir (1988-90, and 1994-96); Chairman, Parliamentary
Board, Muslim Conference AJ&K] Mr. Satinder Lambah,
President, Federation of Indo/German Societies in India [formerly:
Special Envoy of Government of India for Afghanistan; High Commisioner
to Pakistan; Ambassador to Hungary, Germany and Russia Mr. Sajjad Lone,
Chair, Jammu & Kashmir Peoples Conference, Srinagar, Kashmir J&K Lt. Gen. Dr. Bhupal Singh
Malik, President, Centre for Studies in International Affairs
and Development (CSIRD), New Delhi, India; Independent
Analyst [formerly: Chief of Staff, Western Command, India] Mr. Abdul Majeed Mallick,
President, Jammu & Kashmir Liberation League, Mirpur, Azad J&K;
retired Chief Justicew, Azad Kashmir High Court Lt.-Gen.
(ret.) Talat Masood, Independent Columnist, Commentator and
Analyst, Islamabad, Pakistan [formerly: retired Lt. General; Secretary,
Defence Production Division, Ministry of Defence; Chairman, Pakistan
Ordnance Factories Board; various command, staff and instructional
appointments in the armed forces] Prof.
Amitabh Mattoo, Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu, Jammu,
India; Professor of Disarmament Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
(JNU), New Delhi [formerly: Member, National Security Advisory
Board appointed by the Prime Minister of India] Dr. C. Raja Mohan,
Professor of South Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Delhi, India; Convener, Indian Pugwash Society [formerly: Strategic
Affairs Editor, The Hindu; Senior Fellow, Institute for Defence
Studies and Analyses, New Delhi (1983-92)] Prof. Abdul Nayyar,
Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan; on
leave from the Physics Department, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad Admiral K. K. Nayyar,
Chairman, Forum for Strategic & Security Studies, NewDelhi,
India [Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Indian Navy] Amb. Gopalasham Parthasarathi,
Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, India;
Member, Policy Advisory Group, Ministry of External Affairs; Member,
Editorial Board, Indian Defense Review [formerly: High Commissioner/Ambassador
to Cyprus, Myanmar, Australia & Pakistan; Spokesman and Information
Advisor, Prime Minister’s Office] Air Marshal (retd.) V.
Patney, Executive Committee Member, Indian Pugwash Society
and Institute of Defence Studies and Analysis (IDSA), New Delhi, India
[formerly: Vice Chief of Air Staff, Indian Air Force] Mrs. Dilafrose Qazi,
Principal, Social Worker, Women’s Activist, Srinagar, J&K,
India Dr. Rajesh Rajagopalan,
Associate Professor in International Politics, Centre for
International Politics, Organization and Disarmament, School of International
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India Hon. Maharajakrishna Rasgotra,
former Foreign Secretary, and Vice-Chairman, Rajiv Gandhi Foundation,
New Delhi, India Mr. Abbas Rashid,
Coordinator, Society for the Advancement of Education, Lahore, Pakistan;
Columnist, Daily Times, Lahore [formerly: Instructor in International
Relations, Civil Services Academy (Federal Government); Contributing
Editor, The Muslim (national daily newspaper); Acting Editor,
The Frontier Post (National daily newspaper)] Mr. Anikendra Nath “Badshah”
Sen, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific Communication Associates
(APCA), Kathmandu, Nepal (with offices in Noida, India and Port Louis,
Mauritius) Mr. Najmuddin Shaikh,
retired Pakistan Foreign Service Officer; Member, Board of Governors,
Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad; Senior Vice President,
Karachi Council of Foreign Relations; Columnist for Dawn, Karachi
[formerly: Foreign Secretary to the Government of Pakistan (1994-97);
Ambassador of Pakistan to Iran (1992-94), the USA (1990-91), the FRG
)1989-90) and Canada (1987-89)] Prof. Bhim Singh,
Chair, J&K National Panthers Party, Jammu Mohd Abdullah Tari,
Secretary General, Democratic Freedom Party, Kashmir [formerly: Teacher] Prof. Siddiq Wahid,
Maharaja Gulab Singh Chair, University of Jammu, Jammu, J&K State,
India Sheikh Ghulam Rasool Waleed,
Secretary General, J&K Human Rights Forum, Rajbag (Srinagar);
Joint Secretary, J&K People’s League [formerly: Secretary,
Press and Information/.Leader and Representative of All Parties Hurriet
Cenference (APHC)]
PUGWASH Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino,
Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs;
Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan, Italy; Director,
Program on Disarmament and International Security, Landau Network
– Centro Volta, Como, Italy [formerly: Secretary General, Union
of Italian Scientists for Disarmament (USPID)] Dr. Jeffrey Boutwell,
Executive Director, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs,
Washington, DC, USA [formerly: Associate Executive Officer, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge; Staff Aide, National Security
Council, Washington, DC]
OBSERVERS Bharat Bhusan Abbhi,
Attache (Education), Embassy of India, Kathmandu, Nepal Ehsan Ullah Batth,
Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Pakistan, Kathmandu, Nepal Mr. Ravin Lama, Managing
Director, The Himalayan, Kathmandu, Nepal Mr. Joseph Nathan,
Adviser, The Himalayan, Kathmandu, Nepal Mr. Nikesh Sinha,
Director, Asia-Pacific Communications Associates, Noida, India; Director,
Asian Development Research Institute, Patna
PUGWASH STAFF Ms. Claudia Vaughn, Program Coordinator, Pugwash Conferences, via della Lungara 10, I-00165 Rome, Italy, Tel. (++39-06) 687-2606, Fax: (++39-06) 687-8376, Mobile: (++39-333) 456-6661, E-mail: pugwash@iol.it |