Social Science Research Council

In 2001 and 2002, the program committee made the final selections of the Fellows and Conflict Zones Grantees. It has also conducted three "field building" projects, which will culminate in 2003.

Thomas J. Biersteker (chair) is director of the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies and Henry R. Luce Professor of Transnational Organizations at Brown University.

Mustapha K. El-Sayyid is Director of the Center for the Study of Developing Countries at Cairo University.

Daniel García Peña, High Commissioner for Peace in Colombia from 1995-1998, is a television journalist and activist.

Charles R. Hale is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, both at the University of Texas, Austin.

Carolina G. Hernandez is Professor of Political Science and the Carlos P. Romulo Chair in International Relations at the University of the Philippines, and is founder and President of the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies.

Monica Hirst is Executive Director of the Fundación Centro de Estudos Brasileiros (FUNCEB) in Buenos Aires.

Jibrin Ibrahim is the Nigeria Program Director for the International Human Rights Law Group Nigeria Program.

Mary Kaldor is Director of the Programme on Global Civil Society at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance, at the London School of Economics, and author of New and Old Wars: Organized Violence in a Global Era (1999).

Francis Kok-Wah Loh is Professor of Politics at Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, and Secretary of Aliran, a nation-wide Malaysian NGO devoted to social reform, public accountability and the defense of human rights.

Chung-in Moon is the Dean of Graduate School of International Studies and professor of the Political Science Department in Yonsei University, Seoul Korea.

Ferenc Miszlivetz is Research Director of the Centre for European Studies and the Illes Monus Academy for Democratic Society in Budapest.

Dani W. Nabudere is Director of the Africa Study Centre at Mbale, Uganda, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the Islamic University in Uganda, Mbale.

Yezid Sayigh is Assistant Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Elena Zdravomyslova is an Associate Professor at the European University of St. Petersburg and Coordinator of the Gender Studies Program at the Centre for Independent Social Research (CISR).