Dr M. Shahid Alam, Professor, Department of Economics, Northeastern University, Boston

Dr Ruth Blakeley, Lecturer, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Kent

Dr Brett Bowden, Research Fellow, Centre for International Governance & Justice, Australian National University; former Lecturer in Political Science, Australian Defence Force Academy, University of New South Wales

Dr Michael Byron, Professor of Political Science, Palomar College, Mira Costa College, CSU San Marcos

Dr Johan Galtung, Professor of Peace Studies, University of Hawaii; founder, Journal of Peace Research and International Peace Research Institute, Oslo

Dr Daniele Ganser, Peace and Conflict researcher at the History Seminar of Basel University; Switzerland and President of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) Switzerland; former Director, Secret Warfare Project, Center for Security Studies Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

Dr Bernd Hamm, Jean Monet Professor, Centre for European Studies, University of Trier; UNESCO Chairholder, UNESCO Chair on Europe in an International Perspective

Dr Eric Herring, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Bristol

Dr Ricardo René Larémont, Associate Director, Institute for Global Cultural Studies; Professor of Political Science & Sociology, State University of New York, Binghamton; lecturer for US State Department

Dr S. Mansoob Murshed, Professor of International Industrial Ecoomics, Birmingham Business School; former Prince Claus Chair in Development and Equity, Utrecht University; Project Director, World Institute for Development Economics Research, United Nations University; Professor of Development Economics, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

Dr John McMurtry, University Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Ontario; Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada; Editor, Philosophy and World Problems, UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems

Dr Jan Oberg, Director, Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, Lund; Visiting Professor, ICU and Chuo Universities, Japan and Nagoya University; former member of Danish Government’s Committee on Security and Disarmament

Dr Gideon Polya, Associate Professor (ret.) of Biochemistry, La Trobe University; former Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, Australian National University, Canberra

Dr Lawrence Quill, Associate Director, Stanford Center on Ethics; Director, Ethics in Society Program, Stanford University

Dr Diana Ralph, Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Carleton University, Ottawa

Dr Robinson Rojas, Senior Lecturer, Development Planning Unit, University College London; founder, Project for the First People’s Century; Consultant, BBC World Service

Dr Peter Dale Scott, Professor Emeritus of English, University of California, Berkeley

Dr Naveed S. Sheikh, Lecturer in International Relations, Keele University; former GSAS Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard University; Honorary European Trust Scholar, Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge

Dr Arno Tausch, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck; Ministerial Counsellor in the Department of European and International Affairs at the Ministry for Social Security, Austria

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