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Global Peace Index (GPI) is a report produced by the Institute for Economics &Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness. The GPI ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their levels of peacefulness. In the past decade,the GPI has presented trends of increased global violence and less peacefulness.
David Cortright is an American scholar and peace activist. He is Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum. Cortright has a long history of public advocacy for disarmament and the prevention of war.
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Chandra Lekha Sriram (1971–2018) was Professor of Law at the University of London,School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She has written and lectured widely on conflict prevention,post-conflict peacebuilding,human rights,international criminal law,and transitional justice. Her most recent monograph,Peace as governance:Power-sharing,armed groups,and contemporary peace negotiations (2008),offered a comparative critical examination of the use of power-sharing incentives in peace processes in Colombia,Sri Lanka,and Sudan. Previous monographs on transitional justice and international criminal accountability,Confronting past human rights violations:Justice versus peace in times of transition (2004) and Globalizing Justice for mass atrocities:A revolution in accountability (2005);examined transitional justice and internationalized and externalized criminal justice processes in or for Sierra Leone,Timor-Leste,El Salvador,Honduras,Sri Lanka,South Africa,and Argentina.
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Anna Leander is a sociologist and political scientist. Leander is currently a professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She previously taught at the Copenhagen Business School and the Inst. de Relacoes Internacionais,Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. Leander is well known for her work in critical security studies and international political sociology. Theoretically,Leander has played an important role in bringing the work of Pierre Bourdieu into conversation with the discipline of International Relations,as well as more recently working with materialist and pragmatist sociologies. Empirically,much of her work focuses on the contours of private military contractors,drones,and the politics of knowledge in a digital context. Leander has supported the development of International Political Sociology as an editor,through engagement with professional organizations and research evaluation as well as through her investment with education. Anna Leander was associate editor of International Political Sociology until 2017 and is currently associate editor of Security Dialogue and Contexto Internacional and co-editor of the Routledge Series in Private Security Studies. Leander has served on the Norwegian and Swedish Research Councils,numerous research evaluation boards as well as on the advisory boards of DIIS,the Danish Institute for International Studies and the GIGA German Institute for Global and Regional Studies. She was a co-founder of the International Political Sociology section of the International Studies Association,she co-developed/co-directed the International Business and Politics Program of the Copenhagen Business School,and she has supported/supervised numerous doctoral projects. She is the founder of the University of Copenhagen's Centre for the Resolution of International Conflicts (CRIC).
Jurgen Brauer is a German-American economist and contributor to the growing field of peace economics,the study of economic aspects of peace and security. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Augusta University,Augusta,GA,USA,and Visiting Professor of Economics at Chulalongkorn University,Bangkok,Thailand.
Abiodun Alao is a Nigerian academic and professor of African studies at King’s College London and the programme director of the African Leadership Centre. He is also the chair of the King’s College London Africa Community of Practice and between December 2013 and August 2015 held a visiting professorship position at the Nigerian Defence Academy,Kaduna,Nigeria. He is the author of A New Narrative for Africa:Voice and Agency,which "examines the perception of Africa in the global system,tracing Africa’s transition from a "problem" to be solved into an agent with a rising voice in the world."
Philip Windsor was a British academic teaching International Relations mostly at the London School of Economics. He was born in India in 1935,studied at Merton College,and taught at the LSE from 1965. At LSE,he was known and valued for his distinctive lecturing style,and for engaging with students and colleagues outside formal teaching settings. He authored a range of articles on Germany,German reunification and on strategic studies. Philip Windsor died in June 2000.
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