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David W. Ashley
is a human rights monitor in Croatia for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Prior to this he was UNDP/UNCHR advisor to the Commission on Human Rights and Reception of Complaints of the Cambodian National Assembly. He has been a researcher for Amnesty International on Vietnam/Myanmar. His publications include Khmer Rouge Strategy Since UNTAC, Myanmar: ‘"No Place to Hide": Killings, Abductions and Other Abuses Against Ethnic Karen Villagers and Refugees, and The Nature and Causes of Human Rights Abuse in Battambang Province.

Frederick Z. Brown
is Associate Director of Southeast Asia Studies at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. His previous positions have been on the professional staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and in the State Department Foreign Service. He has written extensively on Vietnam and Cambodia.

David P. Chandler
is the author of six books on Cambodia including Facing the Cambodian Past (1996), Brother Number One (1992), and The Tragedy of Cambodian History (1991). As of fall 1998 he will be a visiting professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He has visited Cambodia numerous times since 1990 for his research as a consultant to Amnesty International, UNTAC, and the U.S. Department of Defense.

Michael W. Doyle
is Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University, and Senior Fellow, International Peace Academy. He is the author of UN Peacekeeping in Cambodia: UNTAC’s Civil Mandate and other works.

Kao Kim Hourn
is the Executive Director for the Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace (CICP) in Phnom Penh and an advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in charge of ASEAN Affairs. He is also a columnist for The Cambodian Times. Dr. Kao has authored numerous articles and papers on Cambodia, including "Peace and Cooperation: Alternative Paradigms," edited with Din Merican and published by CICP.

Lao Mong Hay
is Executive Director of the Khmer Institute of Democracy in Phnom Penh. He was Acting Director of the Cambodian Mine Action Center from 1993 to 1994. From 1988 to 1992 he was concurrently Director of the Institute of Public Administration, Head of the Human Rights Unit of the Khmer People’s National Liberation Front (KPNLF), and Aide to the KPNLF leadership.

Judy L. Ledgerwood
is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Northern Illinois University. Most recently, she was a Research Fellow at the East-West Center. In addition, she served as a Professor of Anthropology at the Royal University of Fine Arts, Faculty of Archaeology, Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She is the author of Politics and Gender: Negotiating Changing Cambodian Ideas of the Proper Woman, Research, Education and Cultural Resource Management at Angkor Borei, Cambodia, and other works.

Kirk Talbott
is Senior Director for Asia-Pacific at Conservation International. Prior to this he was Director for Conservation Finance and Policy at the Nature Conservancy and the Asia-Pacific Regional Director for World Resources International. He is coauthor (with Owen Lynch) of Balancing Acts: Community Based Forest Management and National Law in Asia and the Pacific.

David G. Timberman
is a consultant and writer specializing on Southeast Asian affairs and democratic development. Currently, he serves as a consultant to the Asia Society’s Policy program and to the Asia program of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI). He has held staff positions with the Asia Society, The Asia Foundation, and the National Endowment for Democracy. He is Director of the project on "Cambodia and the International Community."

Naranhkiri Tith
has worked as a senior staff at the International Monetary Fund in charge of institutional building in economies in transition in Europe and Asia for 24 years. He has been an adjunct professor at SAIS since 1974, lecturing on economies of ASEAN and transition economies of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Dr. Tith also briefly served as Senior Advisor to the First Prime Minister of Cambodia and is founder of the Cambodian Development Council.

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