Morton Abramowitz is a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, a former president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former employee of the U.S. State Department.

Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Somerville, Mass. He was a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. He studies the social, political and health dimensions of war, famine and genocide. He is the author […]

Samuel Totten is professor emeritus of education at the University of Arkansas’ College of Education and Health Professions. He is co-editor of Genocide in Darfur (Routledge, 2006), editor of Genocide at the Millennium (Transaction Publishers, 2005) and author of Teaching About Genocide (Information Age, 2004). He was a member of the Council of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide […]

Samantha Power is Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights at the National Security Council. She was a professor of Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. She wrote A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Basic Books, 2002), which […]

Walid Phares is a Middle East scholar and expert on global terrorism and persecuted minorities. He was a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. He is an analyst at Wikistrat and a frequent media commentator.

Mahmood Mamdani is an anthropology and government professor at Columbia University in New York and author of When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism and the Genocide in Rwanda (Princeton University Press, 2002.). He has also researched Sudan.

Jok Madut Jok is Executive Director of the Sudd Institute. Jok joined the Government of South Sudan as undersecretary in the Ministry of Culture and Heritage. He was an associate history professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and author of Sudan: Race, Religion and Violence (OneWorld Publications, 2007) and War and Slavery in Sudan (The Ethnography of […]

Francis Mading Deng is South Sudan’s first ambassador to the United Nations. From 1992 to 2004, he was the representative of the U.N. Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons and from 2007 to 2012 he was the UN  Special Adviser for the Prevention of Genocide. He is author of more than 20 books, including War of Visions: Conflicts […]

John C. Danforth, an Episcopal priest and a former U.S. senator, has served as special envoy to Sudan under President Bush and also as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2004-2005.