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• Current DPC board members* and senior associates:

  Ahmet Alibasic, M.A., is a lecturer at the Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo and at the International University of Sarajevo, teaching Islamic culture and history of civilization courses. He was educated in Riyadh (Arabic Language) and Kuala Lumpur (BA in Islamic Studies and Political Sciences and MA in Islamic Civilization). He is currently working on a Ph. D. at the University of Sarajevo. He is actively involved in inter-religious dialogue and currently heads the Interreligious Institute jointly established by the Islamic Community, Serbian Orthodox Church, Catholic Church and Jewish Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina. From 2003-2007 he served as Deputy President of the Association of Islamic Scholars in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has published and translated dozens of articles and books dealing with Islam and politics, Islamic movements, democratization of the Muslim World, opposition legitimization in Islam, church-state relations in Europe and the USA, human rights in Islam and the Muslim world, and Islamic history and civilization.

  aalibasic@democratizationpolicy.org

  *Kurt Bassuener is an independent policy analyst in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Hercegovina. He is currently co-authoring with Amb. Jeremy Kinsman the Diplomats’ Handbook for Democracy Development Support, a project of the Community of Democracies, which will be published in Spring 2008. He served as Strategy Analyst at the Office of the High Representative in Sarajevo from May 2005-December 2006. Previous positions and projects include serving as Political and Campaign Analyst for the OSCE-ODIHR’s Election Observation Mission in Ukraine in 2004-2005, co-founding and co-directing the Democratization Policy Institute with Eric Witte (2000-2002), acting Assistant Director for Government Affairs at the International Rescue Committee (2001), Program Officer for the US Institute of Peace’s Balkans Initiative (2000-2001), Associate Director of the Balkan Action Council (1998-2000), and Policy Analyst at the Balkan Institute (1997-1998). He received his MA in European Studies from the Central European University in Prague (1994); his thesis advocated a standing all-volunteer UN peacekeeping division under the Security Council. He earned his BA from American University’s School of International Service.

  kbassuener@democratizationpolicy.org

  Anika Binnendijk is a fourth-year doctoral candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. After finishing her undergraduate studies at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School, she interned at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and the National Democratic Institute, becoming increasingly interested in the intersections between security and democratic development. Her dissertation examines the responses of state security forces to nonviolent strategies during the recent “colored revolutions.” She has conducted field research Ukraine and Serbia, was recently selected by the United States Institute of Peace to be funded as as one of ten USIP Peace Scholars for the 2007-2008 academic year. Based in New York, Anika is a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute and a member of the New Leaders program at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs. She recently concluded a consulting project for FORTUNE’s 2007 Global Forum in New Delhi.

  anika.binnendijk@osce.org 

  Marina Bowder, from Oxfordshire, UK, read literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, and taught English as the Foreign Lecturer at the English Department of the Philosophy Faculty in Sarajevo, having arrived in the city in 1995. Otherwise she has diverged widely from the academic path. Having reported on Bosnian return issues for the International Organization for Migration, she turned to media analysis as an editor at the Institute of War and Peace Reporting office in Sarajevo, and pursued media work further with the Office of the High Representative from 1997 onwards. However, in 1999, as return took the foreground, she joined the Return and Reconstruction Task Force with the Office of the High Representative, becoming Coordinator for the Property Law Implementation Plan (known affectionately as PLIP). In 2003, with PLIP reaching its end, she came back to education, with the Education Department of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, where she works as the Senior Adviser.

  mbowder@democratizationpolicy.org

  Iryna Chupryna graduated in 1998 from the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Kyiv with a master’s degree in Cultural Studies, and in 2001 from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder), Germany with a master’s degree in European Studies. In 1996-2000 she was an active member of the European student organization AEGEE. In 2004, deputy head of the Secretariat of the Freedom of Choice Coalition, responsible for the development of monitoring projects for the presidential elections in Ukraine, fundraising and the supervision of the activities of project managers. In 2004 she also joined a civic campaign PORA (yellow wing). As a member of PORA Coordination Center, she systematized and supervised PORA’s external contacts, assisted in the organization of day-to-day work of the Coordination Center. She received the memorial award “To a prominent participant of the Orange Revolution”. Chupryna is one of the founders of the civic party PORA, and in 2004-2006 was a member of the party’s Central Council. In 2005 she participated in the seminar for young political leaders of Europe and Eurasia in Ohrid, Macedonia.She is a co-author of the case study “PORA-Vanguard of Democracy” and of the chapter “It’s Time! Pora and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine” in the book by Forbrig, J. & Demes, P. (eds.) (2007) “Reclaiming Democracy. Civil Society and Electoral Change in Central and Eastern Europe”. In November 2007 she expects to obtain a master’s degree in international public policy from University College, London. The master’s dissertation was dedicated to the comparative analysis of the Ukraine’s transition to democracy with the failed revolution attempts in Azerbaijan, with a special focus on U.S. respective involvement. She has a keen interest in studying transition processes in Eurasia, especially in Eastern Europe and in Muslim states of Central Asia and Caucasus.

  irynac@yahoo.com

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  Harpinder Athwal Collacott works with the London-based Oak Foundation’s International Human Rights Programme, where she handles the transitional justice, human rights defenders and human rights camapigning portfolio, covering human rights issues across the globe. She has extensive experience in international justice and human rights, previously working with the Special Court for Sierra Leone until 2006 as the Prosecutor’s Political Adviser and Special Assistant. In this position she developed and oversaw the political strategy to orchestrate the transfer of key indictee Charles Taylor (former President of Liberia) from Nigeria to Sierra Leone. She subsequently served as a consultant to the Open Society Justice Initiative, authoring a strategy document on state cooperation with international criminal tribunals.Harpinder spent three years in Washington, DC, first as a Research Assistant at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars focused on Afghanistan and South Asia, a region to which she traveled in 2003 to assess post-conflict reconstruction. She then worked for Citizens for Global Solutions, a U.S. advocacy organisation, serving as their Peace and Security Programme Manager, and then as Director of Strategic Planning and Communications, taking the organisation through a five year strategic planning process. She has worked in the UK House of Commons and European Parliament with Liberal Democrat Parliamentarians as a researcher on human rights and foreign affairs issues, then going into the private sector as a public affairs consultant in London, working with Lexington Communications.In her spare time, Harpinder is a committed Liberal Democrat who ran as a parliamentary candidate for the party in 2001 UK General Election. She continues to camapign for the party and attend conferences and support the party during the election period. She has published several chapters and articles on international justice and human rights issues.She graduated from Cambridge University with an Honours in History and Education, and from the London School of Economics with a Masters in International Relations.

  pin.athwal@gmail.com

  Vanja Filipovic is a political and security analyst. He received his B.A in Political Science from Haverford College and his M.A. in Security Policy Studies at George Washington University.  During that time, he also worked with the Community of Bosnia Foundation on providing educational opportunities for Bosnian students in the United States and preserving Bosnian cultural heritage. Vanja acted as news editor of BosNet, a non-profit daily Internet news service focused on the events in the Balkans.

  vanjaf@gmail.com

  *Sharon Fisher is Senior Economist with Global Insight’s Country Intelligence Group in Washington, D.C., where she conducts economic and political analysis, risk assessment, and forecasting on a number of European Union (EU) and Balkan countries. Previously, she served as an analyst at the RFE/RL Research Institute in Munich and the Open Media Research Institute in Prague. Fisher has presented her work at numerous conferences and seminars in Europe and the United States, and her extensive list of publications includes the 2006 book Political Change in Post-Communist Slovakia and Croatia: From Nationalist to Europeanist (from Palgrave Macmillan), which examines how international actors assisted in bringing peaceful political change by helping to shore up opposition unity and build civil society. She holds a Ph.D. in politics from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London.

  sharonlfisher@yahoo.com

  *Stefanie Frease served as an investigator at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) until November 2007. She worked previously with the International Criminal Court, where she set up its Darfur investigation. From 2000-2005, she worked as senior advisor at the Washington-based Coalition for International Justice (CIJ), focusing on transitional justice issues in Sudan, Liberia, East Timor, Cambodia and the former Yugoslavia. Prior to joining CIJ in September 2000, Stefanie worked for five years on the Srebrenica investigation for the Investigation Section in the ICTY’s Office of the Prosecutor. From 1992-1994 she worked in Croatia and Bosnia assisting war relief efforts for the International Rescue Committee. She received a graduate degree from the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and an undergraduate degree from the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington.

  sfrease@gmail.com

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  Balazs Jarabik is a democratization and development expert, columnist and political analyst. Born in Slovakia in an ethnic Hungarian family he has studied history at the Comenius University in Bratislava, political science at the ELTE University in Budapest and human rights at Columbia University. His professional career started in 1996 as an associate to Laszlo Nagy, the current Chairman of the Human and Minority Rights Commission of the Slovak Parliament. In 1998 he took active part of Slovakia’s various civic campaigns. Working with the Pontis Foundation he consulted civic campaigns and NGOs in Croatia (1999), Ukraine (1999), Serbia and Montenegro (2000/2002), and helped to develop the Pontis public policy program to Belarus (from 2001). He is the co-founder of Democratization and Development Abroad at Pontis and remains a member of its Belarus Board.In 2002 he helped to implement a large civic education and campaign program for Freedom House in Slovakia, and in 2003 he was heading the organization’s Tashkent office to strengthen the capacity of Uzbek human rights defenders. Currently he heads Pact Ukraine to implement the USAID-funded Organizational Development Program in Western NIS. He is also an Associate Fellow at FRIDE, the Madrid-based European think tank covering democratization issues. He is a member of the board of the Simecka Foundation, the Slovak Governance Institute and a member of the Advisory Board of the Eurasia Foundation. He regularly publishes articles and analysis in English, Hungarian and Slovak, covering mainly affairs in the Commonwealth of Independent States.Among his major publications are Minority Protection Report 2002, Open Society Institute, EUMAP Programme, Budapest, 2002; State of Minority Legislation in Slovakia 2000-2002 (ed.), Bratislava, Kalligram Foundation, 2003; Kan Kankan (in Hungarian about Uzbekistan), Lilium Aurum, Bratislava, 2005.

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  Scott Lang, MA Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford, resides in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. As founder of the 501 (C) 3 charity, The Post-Conflict Foundation, Scott designed US and Balkan based educational programs for post-conflict youth leaders to attain skills while pursuing reconciliation. The OSCE selected Scott to monitor elections in Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro and Russia whilst Northwestern University appointed Scott as their assistant director of the Center for International and Comparative Studies. In this latter role, Scott oversaw study abroad programs, major conferences and diverse international initiatives including conducting field research in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia and Turkey. While completing his political science bachelors at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Scott reported on current affairs for The Chicago Flame and lived in Paris where he learned French. Scott went on to help resettle Bosnian refugees during and after the war through the NGO World Relief; in 2005 the Congress of North-American Bosniaks recognized his efforts with an award of special appreciation. Scott practiced public affairs with the Jasculca/Terman firm and developed international arts festivals for the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. Chicago’s Mayor Daley appointed Scott to membership on the Chicago-Moscow sister city committee and reappointed him to join the new Chicago-Belgrade committee. Scott has visited these cities to strengthen business, cultural and humanitarian ties. During his Rotary World Peace Fellowship Scott led a research mission to Kosovo, and participated in research in Palestine and Sri Lanka, during which he learned firsthand from civilians on all sides of these protracted conflicts, interfaced with local leaders and the international institutions seeking to build peace. Having completed his MA dissertation “Local Agency in Post-Conflict Transformation: The Cases of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo”, Scott has joined the Democratization Policy Council as a senior associate while pursuing an MPhil research degree at the University of Bradford.

  slang@democratizationpolicy.org

  Mark Lenzi served as Resident Country Director of the International Republican Institute in Tbilisi, Georgia until November 2007. He has served as an observer on numerous elections throughout the post-Soviet space, including in Azerbaijan’s recent fraudulent elections. He previously was a Fulbright scholar in Lithuania, and Peace Corps volunteer in Poland. He has written on Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko’s regime in the Wall Street Journal Europe, the Washington Post, and the International Herald Tribune, and will soon publish the book Lost Civilization: The Repression of Civil Society in Belarus.

  marklenzi@yahoo.com

  Eric Manton has worked in Kosovo and Macedonia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and as a research analyst at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He studied Czech dissident political philosophy in Prague and holds an LLM from Essex in Human Rights Law.

  eric.manton@linworx.cz 

  Amado M. Mendoza, Jr. Ph.D is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City and a member of the Board of Trustees of ESCR Asia, Inc., an NGO dedicated to the promotion economic, social and cultural rights. He previously served as Assistant Professor in Economics and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines, and Vice President for Research and Strategic Studies at the National Defense College of the Philippines. He is also currently senior research fellow with the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies (ISDS), Manila, the University of the Philippines Center for Integrative and Development Studies (UP-CIDS), and the Philippine Center for Policy Studies (PCPS). He engages in policy studies, policy advocacy, research, and consultancy work on behalf of diverse entities including government agencies, academic institutions, political parties, groups and individuals, media organizations, and NGOs.His current research focuses on the industrial anatomy/organization of armed anti-state groups/movements and organized crime in South and Southeast Asia. He is also completing a chapter on civil resistance and democratization in the Philippines for a volume that will be published by Oxford in summer of 2008. In addition, he is developing a theoretical piece on the dialectics of armed and nonviolent resistance to dictatorships based on the Philippine, Northern Irish and South African cases. He recently lectured on at Stanford University and University of California, San Diego on the drawbacks of people power, and is a trainer-in-training of the Center for Applied Nonviolent Actions and Strategies (CANVAS), Belgrade, Serbia.

  amado.mendozajr@gmail.com

  Andrej Nosov is the President and founder of the Belgrade-based Youth Initiative for Human Rights. He was its Executive Director from 2003 to 2006. Before entering the NGO world, Andrej was a journalist for Danas daily, VIN, Transitions Online and other local media in Serbia. Nosov is currently enrolled at the UNION Faculty of Law in Belgrade.

  andrej@yihr.org

  Dragan Popovic is Program Director at the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), one of Serbia’s leading human rights NGOs. Previously he worked in the Serbian Parliament as an advisor to members of Parliament on issues of organized crime, inter-ethnic tension, and conflict prevention. He completed his undergraduate studies in Ethnology and Anthropology at the University of Belgrade, and his post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

  program@hlc-rdc.org

  Abdul Tejan-Cole is an attorney and the newly appointed Commissioner of Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission. In Sierra Leone, he has variously served as the president of the Sierra Leone Bar Association, as a trial attorney and appellate counsel in the office of the prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the acting head of the Campaign for Good Governance, and a lecturer of law at the University of Sierra Leone. Internationally, he has served as the Deputy Director of the Cape Town office for the International Center for Transitional Justice, the chair of the board the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA), a Human Rights Teaching Fellow at Columbia University, and a Yale World Fellow. He has written extensively on human rights, democratization and transitional justice issues, and in 2000, Human Rights Watch recognized him as a Human Rights Defender. Abdul has an LLB (Hons) degree from Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone and LLM from University College London.

  atejancole@hotmail.com

  *Toby Vogel is a Brussels-based writer on international affairs specializing in the Balkans and EU enlargement. A political scientist by background, he has written for the Wall Street Journal Europe, the International Herald Tribune, Haaretz, and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, among others, and is an occasional contributor to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Newsline. From 2004 to 2007, he worked as a commissioning editor and editorial writer with Transitions Online. In September 2007, he became a staff writer on EU foreign policy with European Voice, an Economist Group weekly on European affairs. Toby spent four years with the International Rescue Committee in New York and Sarajevo, where he headed the IRC’s Design, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit and was responsible for the project cycle management of a $20 million refugee return program. He also worked for the Open Society Institute (New York), UNDP (Sarajevo and Prishtina), and various NGOs. He is the co-author (with Phil Triadafilopoulos) of a forthcoming study on “ethnic cleansing” in twentieth-century Europe and a 2003 Mellon Foundation fellow in security and humanitarian action at City University, New York.

  tvogel@democratizationpolicy.org

  Kathy Ward was Deputy Director of the International Crisis Group’s Washington office for over two years.  As a White House Fellow, she served at the US Mission to the United Nations, working on Africa policy in the office of Ambassador Richard Holbrooke.  Previously, she worked in Washington and The Hague for the Coalition for International Justice, engaging in policy advocacy related to the war-crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.  She is an attorney who currently lives in California.

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  Bodo Weber is completing his PhD in sociology at Hannover University, Germany, on the character and dynamics of violent ethnicization processes in Western Balkans societies in the 1990s. His research - the first to be broadly based on original sources, in addition to hundreds of original documents from the archives of the Hague tribunal (ICTY) - is intended as a contribution to understanding and coping with modern ethnic nationalism and the global rise of collective ideologies in the post-1989 era. Weber has an MA in political science from the Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. In the 1990s, he worked as an editor with Perspektiven (Frankfurt/Main), a journal, and served as a board member of the Bosnien-Büro Frankfurt. He has published numerous articles and analytical papers on states and societies in the Balkans and works as a political consultant for political organizations in Germany and the Balkans.

  bweber@democratizationpolicy.org

  *Eric A. Witte is an independent consultant in the fields of human rights and transitional justice. In addition to occasional op-eds for DPC, his recent writings include an assessment of war crimes prosecutions at the Bosnian State Court for the Open Society Justice Initiative; the Europe and Middle East chapters of the Minority Rights Group’s State of the World’s Minorities 2007; the Africa and Middle East chapters of the same report for 2006; and a chapter on the interaction between war crimes prosecutions and disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programs for a forthcoming book by the International Center for Transitional Justice. Until June 2005 Eric spent nearly two years as political advisor and special assistant to the chief prosecutor at the Special Court for Sierra Leone where he focused on efforts to bring former Liberian president Charles Taylor to justice. Before that he worked on Balkan, African and transitional justice issues in Washington at the Coalition for International Justice, International Crisis Group, and Balkan Institute. In 2000, he co-founded the (now defunct) Democratization Policy Institute with Kurt Bassuener. He has a Magister Artium in political science from the University of Regensburg, Germany.

  ericwitte2 [at] gmail.com

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