Shahram Akbarzadeh
Shahram Akbarzadeh is a lecturer in international relations at La Trobe University, Australia and editor of Pacifica Review. He has published widely on Tajikistan history and society.
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Rashid G. Abdullo
Rashid Abdullo is a researcher with the UN Tajikistan Office for Peacebuilding and served on the staff of UNMOT from 1996 to 2000.
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Chea Vannath
Chea Vannath is President of the Center for Social Development, a Cambodian non-governmental organisation that seeks to influence public policy and promote good governance. She holds a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Portland State University.
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Mu Sochua
Mu Sochua has been a leading human rights advocate for over 25 years, and is a prominent member of Cambodia’s leading opposition party, the Sam Rainsy Party. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 and touted by the New York Times in 2010 as ‘part of a new generation of women who are working their way into the political systems of countries across Asia and elsewhere’.
Sorpong Peou
Sorpong Peou is a Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. He received his PhD in Political Science from York University, Toronto. His publications include Conflict Neutralisation in the Cambodia War: From Battlefield to Ballot-box (Oxford University Press, 1997). His forthcoming book will be entitled Foreign Intervention and Regime Change in Cambodia.
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Yos Hut Khemacaro
Yos Hut Khemacaro worked with the United Nations Border Relief Operation from 1988-92 in Thailand as an adviser on educational and human rights programmes. He lived in France from 1973-86 and in Australia from 1986-88. He is now head of the Khmer Buddhist Foundation in France and lives in Cambodia where he works as an adviser to a range of Cambodian and international NGOs.
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Dylan Hendrickson
Dylan Hendrickson, a former student of Prince Norodom Ranariddh, worked as an aide to FUNCINPEC from 1991-93. He completed an MPhil at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex in 1995, and since then has worked as an independent research consultant for the British government and various UN agencies, NGOs and academic institutions. His research has focused on the political and humanitarian dimensions of international responses to armed conflict.
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Lao Mong Hay
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 1993-94. 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 and aide to the KPLNF leadership.
Laura Gibbons
Laura Gibbons is the incoming Series Editor of Accord. She joined Conciliation Resources from the Overseas Development Institute where she was for three years editor of the Relief and Rehabilitation Network. Prior to that she held a number of posts in EU and UK public policy organisations after obtaining a Masters Degree in political administration from the College of Europe in Bruges.
Francois Danchaud
Francois Danchaud has a background in law and political science and, as a journalist, has been writing on Cambodia since the mid-1980s. He worked with the French NGO Children of the Mekong in Cambodia from 1991-92 and returns regularly to the country to cover the political situation.
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