Christine Bell is Professor of Constitutional Law and Assistant Principal (Global Justice) University of Edinburgh and Director of the Political Settlements Research Programme. Her research interests lie in the interface between constitutional and international law, gender and conflict, and legal theory, with a particular interest in peace processes and their agreements.
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Mara Stankovitch is a freelance writer and editor based in London.
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Accord Issue 6: Philippines-Mindanao
Mara Stankovitch is a contributor to our Accord publication series and not a staff member of Conciliation Resources. The views expressed in the publication are their own and do not reflect the position of Conciliation Resources. We cannot share contributors' contact details.
Soliman M Santos is a Filipino lawyer and peace advocate currently on a masteral law scholarship at the University of Melbourne.
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Macapado A Muslim is Professor in Politics and Public Administration and Chancellor of Mindanao State University-General Santos City. In an unofficial capacity, he advised MNLF Chairman Nur Misuari during the peace talks.
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Eric Gutierrez is a journalist and Deputy Director of the Institute for Popular Democracy, Manila.
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Rufa Cagoco-Guiam is Associate Professor in Public Administration and Director of the Research and Development Center, Mindanao State University-General Santos City.
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An award-winning journalist, Carolyn O. Arguillas chairs the Davao City-based Mindanao News and Information Cooperative (MNICC). She was the Titus Brandsma awardee for peace-journalism in 2002.
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Alfred Jeyaratnam Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, where he served as Professor and Chair of Political Science from 1972 to 1986. In 1978-83, he acted as an unofficial constitutional adviser to the President of Sri Lanka, was intermediary between the President and the Tamil United Liberation Front and vice-chair of the Presidential Commission on Development Councils (1979-80). He is author of several books on Sri Lankan politics.
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Sachithanandam Sathananthan is Chairman of Mandru (Institute for Alternative Development and Regional Cooperation) which he co-founded in 1989. Dr Sathananthan is the Founder-Secretary of the Action Group of Tamils in Colombo (AGOTIC). His publications and research interests cover national movements, democratisation and nation-building in South Asia. He is the principal author of The Elusive Dove: An assessment of conflict resolution initiatives in Sri Lanka, 1957 to 1996 (Mandru, 1996).
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Kumudini Samuel is joint coordinator of the Women and Media Collective (WMC) and editor of Women's Rights Watch, both in Colombo. She has worked on the monitoring and advocacy of Human and Women's Rights in Sri Lanka for the past twenty years through the WMC, INFORM and the Movement for Inter Racial Justice and Equality (MIRJE).
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