Abbas is a photographer with Magnum Photos. Since 1970, he has covered wars and revolutions in Biafra, Bangladesh, Ulster, Vietnam, the Middle East, Chile, Cuba, and South Africa.

Eddie Adams was a photojournalist for AP/Wide World Photos, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for his photo of a street execution in Vietnam. He died in 2004.

Kael Alford is a freelance photojournalist who was based in south-eastern Europe from 1996-2003 and has since worked extensively in Iraq.

Ewen Allison is an attorney in Washington, D.C. and a consultant at the War Crimes Research Office at American University.

Christiane Amanpour is the chief international
correspondent for CNN. She has won two Columbia DuPont Awards, eight Emmys, two Polks, two Peabodys, a Courage in Journalism Award, a Sigma Delta Chi Award, a Livingston Award, and a Breakthrough Award.

Jon Lee Anderson, a correspondent for The New Yorker, is the author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life (Grove Press, 1997), The Lion's Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan (Grove Press, 2002), Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World (Penguin, 2004), and The Fall of Baghdad (Penguin, 2004).

Kenneth Anderson is a professor of law at Washington College of Law, American University, and a research fellow of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He was previously general counsel of the Open Society Institute and director of the Human Rights Watch Arms Division.

Thorne Anderson is a photographer who has been covering international news with Corbis/Sygma since 1999. Thorne's photographs are regularly published in magazines and newspapers
including Time, Newsweek, Stern, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Times (London), the Guardian, and others.

Micha Bar-Am a photojournalist with Magnum Photos, has covered Israeli and international subjects since 1956. He was curator of photography at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art from 1977 to 1993 and was awarded the Israel Prize for Visual Arts in 2000.

Nomi Bar-Yaacov is a foreign policy adviser on Middle Eastern affairs and former head of the Middle East Conflict Management Programme at the Institute for Strategic Studies in London. Prior to that she was a Middle East diplomatic correspondent with Agence France-Presse, based in Jerusalem.

Bruno Barbey, a photographer with Magnum Photos, has journeyed across five continents and numerous world conflicts over the past four decades. He has received numerous awards for his work including the French "National Order
of Merit."

M. Cherif Bassiouni is a Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law and President of the International Human Rights Law Institute. He chaired the UN Commission of Experts on the former Yugoslavia and served as the UN's Independent Expert on the Situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan.

Maud S. Beelman is Projects Editor at the Dallas Morning News. She was the founding director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists at the Center for Public Integrity and a veteran foreign correspondent for the Associated Press.

Dima Beliakov, a Russian photojournalist, has worked extensively on the Chechen conflicts. His photographs have been published in numerous international magazines and newspapers.

Dr. Orna Ben-Naftali heads the international law division at the Law School, the College of Management, Academic Studies, in Israel.
Marcus Bleasdale, a photojournalist, has spent several years covering the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was named Magazine Photographer of the Year in 2005 by Pictures of the Year International and received the Olivier Rebbot Award from the Overseas Press Club of America in 2006.

Robert Block is the Homeland Security correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. He has won numerous awards for his reporting including the 1996 Amnesty International Press Award and the 2004 Elizabeth Neuffer Award for print journalism.

Jeremy Bowen is Middle East Editor for the BBC and has covered most major international stories since 1988, reporting from some 70 countries. He has won a number of awards for journalism, most recently a Sony Gold Award for coverage of the capture of Saddam Hussein. He is author of Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped the Middle East (Simon and Schuster, 2003).

Heidi Bradner received the Leica Medal of Excellence and the Alexia Foundation Prize for her work documenting the conflict in Chechnya. Her book on the cultures of the Siberian Arctic, Land of the Second Sun, won a World Press Photo award in 2003.

Colette Braeckman is the Africa editor for Le Soir (Brussels). She is the author of L'Enjeu Congolais (Fayard, 1999) Terreur Africaine (Fayard, 1996), and Le Dinosaure: le Zaire de Mobutu (Fayard, 1991).

Jess Bravin covers the U.S. Supreme Court for the Wall Street Journal. A John Jacobs Fellow of the University of California, Berkeley, he is writing a book on the U.S. military commissions at Guantanamo Bay and the Supreme Court case that found them unconstitutional.

Jimmie Briggs, a photojournalist, is a Goodwill Ambassador and Special Envoy for Children and Armed Conflict with the United Nations. He is author of Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go to War (Basic Books, 2005).

David Burnett, a photojournalist based in the United States, was a co-founder of Contact Press Images. He has worked in countries around the world, and has won the Robert Capa Gold Medal, the World Press Photo Premier Award, and the Overseas Press Club's Olivier Rebbot Award.

John Burns is Baghdad bureau chief for the New York Times. He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, in 1993 for coverage of Bosnia, and in 1997 for reports on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. He has also been awarded two George Polk awards and the Arthur Ross Award for Distinguished Reporting and Analysis on Foreign Affairs.

Robert Capa was a renowned war photographer who co-founded Magnum Photos in 1947. Famous for his coverage of the Spanish Civil War and WWII, he was killed in 1954 by a landmine while covering Vietnam.

Burrus M. Carnahan is a professorial lecturer in law at George Washington University, Washington D.C. A retired USAF lieutenant colonel, he is
currently employed as a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation at the U.S. Department of State.

Gilles Caron, a photojournalist, covered the
Six-Day War, Vietnam, Biafra, and Northern Ireland in five short years of an exemplary career. Caron disappeared in 1970 while covering the Cambodia-Vietnam border at the age of thirty.

Anna Cataldi, one of the founding member of the Crimes of War Project, is a freelance journalist and author of Letters from Sarajevo (Element, U.K., 1994), Bambini di Guerra (Valle D'Aosta, Italy), and Fifty Years Later (Mondadori, Italy, 1998). In 1998, the Secretary-General of the UN named her “Messenger of Peace.”

Dean Chapman is a photographer with Panos Pictures who has worked extensively in Asia. His book on Burma, Karenni: The Forgotten War of a Nation Besieged, was awarded 1998 European Publishers Award for Photography.

Alan Chin, photographer, has covered conflicts in Iraq, ex-Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the Middle East. He contributes regularly to the New York Times, Newsweek, and Time magazine.

Roger Cohen is the international affairs columnist of the International Herald Tribune, and international writer at large for the New York Times. He is author of Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo (Random House, 1998) and Soldiers and Slaves (Random House, 2005).

Emma Daly is the Press Director at Human Rights Watch in New York and a journalist for the New York Times. She has covered conflicts in Europe, Central America, and Africa for the Independent (London) and Reuters.

Manoocher Deghati, freelance photographer and founder of AINA Photojournalism Institute in Kabul, worked as a war photographer for Sipa and AFP, specializing in the Middle East.

Raymond Depardon is a photographer and filmmaker who co-founded the Gamma Agency and has since worked with Magnum Photos. He won the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his coverage of Chile and a Pulitzer Prize in 1977 for work in Chad.

Hamilton DeSaussure is a retired emeritus professor of law at the University of Akron, Ohio. He held the Stockton Chair in International Law at the Naval War College from 1979 to 1980.

Alan Dorsey is the former deputy project manager for the Crimes of War Project, and before that was a staff member of the ICRC Delegation to the United Nations in New York.

Corinne Dufka is a senior researcher with the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch. As a photographer with Reuters based in Nairobi, Kenya from 1989-1999, she received several awards including the Robert Capa Gold Medal, a World Press Photo Award, and the International Women's Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award. In 2003 she received a MacArthur “genius” grant.

Nic Dunlop is a photojournalist based in South-East Asia. His book The Lost Executioner, a real-life detective story tracking down the man responsible for some of the worst atrocities of Cambodia's killing fields, was published in 2005.

Anthony Dworkin, co-editor of this book, is executive director of the Crimes of War Project. He is a contributing editor of Prospect, and his writing has also appeared in the Guardian, International Herald Tribune, TLS, New Statesman and other publications.

Thomas Dworzak, a photographer with Magnum, has contributed to the New Yorker, Newsweek, U.S. News, Paris Match, the New York Times Magazine and Time. He has worked in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq, Iran, Haiti and the United States.

H. Wayne Elliott, S.J.D., is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel. He is a former chief of the international law division at the Judge Advocate General's School, U.S. Army and is an Adjunct Professor at Liberty University Law School in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Kari Eloranta is a photographer and mathematician. His images of the conditions of life of ordinary people in North-East Africa were collected in the 2002 book Time Zero Ground Zero.

Hector Emanuel is a Peruvian-born photographer based in Washington DC. His photos focus mainly on social and political issues in Latin America and the United States. He is also a founding member of Metro Collective, a documentary photographers' collective.

Douglas Farah is an investigative consultant with the Nine/Eleven Finding Answers Foundation as well as a freelance writer on terror finance and national security issues. He is a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post. He won the Sigma Delta Chi award for international reporting in 1988, and the Maria Moor Cabot award for his Latin American reporting in 1995.

Stephen Ferry is a photographer with Redux Pictures. He has worked in Eastern Europe, Latin America and North Africa, and since 2000 has focused his work on Colombia. He is the winner of two World Press Awards.

Dr. Horst Fischer is academic director of the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at the Ruhr-Universität in Germany, and professor of IHL at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is also the legal advisor for international affairs for the German Red Cross and Netherlands Red Cross.

Leonard Freed, a photographer, joined Magnum in 1972 and since then has worked on assignment for numerous prominent international magazines. He has also shot four films for Japanese, Dutch and Belgian television.

Stuart Freedman is a photographer whose work has been published in Life, Geo, Time, Der Spiegel, Newsweek and Paris Match. His work on the victims of mutilation in Sierra Leone led to an invitation to speak on the subject on Capitol Hill in the United States.

Charles Garraway served for 30 years in the United Kingdom Army Legal Services and retired with the rank of Colonel in 2003. Subsequently he was a Senior Adviser on Transitional Justice to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. He is currently an Associate Fellow at Chatham House in London.

Jean Gaumy, a photographer with Magnum Photos and a filmmaker, has traveled and worked in Europe, Africa, Central America, the Middle East and Iran.

George Georgiou is a photojournalist and documentary photographer currently based in Istanbul, Turkey. He has worked extensively in the Balkans over the past six years.

Tom Gjelten is a correspondent for National Public Radio and author of Sarajevo Daily: A City and its Newspaper Under Siege (HarperCollins, 1995) and the forthcoming Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba. He won the George Polk Award and the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for his reporting on Bosnia.

Robert Kogod Goldman is a professor of law and co-director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Washington College of Law, American University. He is the former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. From July 2004 to July 2005, Professor Goldman was the UN Human Rights Commission's independent expert on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.

Richard Goldstone served as the Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations Yugoslavia and Rwanda Tribunals and as a justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Kaveh Golestan was an internationally renowned photojournalist and BBC cameraman. He died on April 2, 2003, while on assignment in Kifri, Northern Iraq when he stepped on a landmine.

Thomas Goltz has written about political and social issue in the post-Soviet Caucasus since 1991 for several American and UK publications. He is the author of Azerbaijan Diary (M.E. Sharpe, 1998), Chechnya Diary (St Martin's Press/Tom Dunne, 2003), and Georgia Diary (M.E. Sharpe, 2006). He is currently a visiting scholar in the Central and Southwest Asian Studies Program at the University of Montana/Missoula.

Patricia Gossman is director of the Afghanistan Justice Project and a consultant on human rights issues.

Joel Greenberg is a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. He was previously a reporter in the Jerusalem bureau of the New York Times, covered the first Palestinian uprising for the Jerusalem Post, and also contributed to the Christian Science Monitor.

Stanley Greene, a photographer with the VU Agency, is based in Paris. For his work in Chechnya, collected in the book Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003 (Trolley, 2003), he was awarded the W. Eugene Smith Award and a World Press Photo award.

Christopher Greenwood, QC, is Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and a practicing barrister. He is the author of Command and the Law of Armed Conflict (H.M. Stationery Office, London, 1993).

Philip Jones Griffiths is a photographer with Magnum Photos. He covered the war in Vietnam and his book Vietnam, Inc. (Macmillan, 1971) is considered by many as the most important photographic work about the war. His later book Agent Orange: Collateral Damage in Vietnam was published in 2003.

Aeyal Gross teaches international and constitutional law at Tel-Aviv University. He is a member of the board of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.

Roy Gutman, chairman of the Crimes of War Project and co-editor of this book, is foreign editor of McClatchy Newspapers. He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for his writing for Newsday about concentration camps and other aspects of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, and also won the Polk Award, the Hal Boyle award of the
Overseas Press Club, and the Selden Ring Award for investigative reporting.

Hale Gurland is a photographer, sculptor and painter based in New York City.

Ron Haeberle was a U.S. Army photographer in Vietnam, where he documented the My Lai
massacre in 1968. He later became a photographer for Time/Life.

Françoise J. Hampson is a professor at the University of Essex (U.K.) and co-director of its Children and Armed Conflict Unit. She is a
member of the UN Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, and has litigated many cases before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Sheldon H. Harris was a professor of American history emeritus at the California State University, Northridge. He was the author of Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare and the American Cover-Up (Routledge, 1994, rev. ed. 2002), which won two scholarly awards. He died in 2002.

Florence Hartmann reported from the former Yugoslavia for Le Monde (France) between 1989 and 1994, and is the author of Milosevic (revised edition, Poche, 2002). She was the spokesperson for the Chief Prosecutor at the Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal for six years until 2006.

Amira Hass is an Israeli journalist for Ha'aretz in the West Bank and Gaza. Her
awards include the UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize and the Anna Lindh Award. She is the author of Drinking the Sea at Gaza (Metropolitan, 1999).

Ron Haviv, a photographer and co-founder of the VII photo agency, has covered conflict and humanitarian crises in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the Balkans. He has published two collections of his photography—Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal (TV Books, 2000) and Afghanistan: The Road to Kabul (de.MO, 2002).

Lindsey Hilsum is the China bureau chief of Channel Four News (London), and a contributor to the New Statesman and Granta. She won 2005 Royal Television Society Journalist of the Year Award for her reporting from Iraq and Russia.

Michael H. Hoffman is director for international humanitarian law and policy with the American Red Cross and a retired lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.

Tomas van Houtryve is a former AP staff photographer whose work regularly appears in leading international publications including Time magazine, the New York Times Magazine, Stern, the Independent on Sunday, Le Monde and Le Figaro Magazine.

Mark Huband, former International Security
correspondent for the Financial Times (London), won the U.K. Foreign Correspondent of the Year award in 1991. He is the author of The Skull Beneath the Skin (Westview, 2001) and Brutal Truths, Fragile Myths (Westview, 2004).

Henri Huet, a French combat photographer,
covered Vietnam and later worked for UPI and the AP. Huet was killed when his helicopter was shot down in Laos in 1971.

Michael Ignatieff, a writer and historian, is deputy leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. From 2000 to 2005 he was director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. He is author of The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (Princeton University Press, 2004) and Empire Lite: Nation-Building in Bosnia, Kosovo and Afghanistan (Penguin, 2003).

Rikio Imajo is a photographer with the Associated Press based in Tokyo.

Stewart Innes is a freelance photographer who has worked widely across the Middle East, and has recently covered the wars in Iraq and Lebanon.

Christian Jennings, a freelance journalist, covered the Rwandan genocide for Reuters and reported from Kosovo for the Economist and the Daily Telegraph. He is author of Across the Red River: Four Years of Genocide in Rwanda and Burundi (Victor Gollancz, 1999). Olivier Jobard is a photographer with Sipa Press. In 2004, he was honored with the Visa d'Or for his reportage on the Darfur conflict, and also received the Grand Prix Paris-Match for his photographs of illegal African immigrants fleeing their continent for Europe.

William E. Jones served as an aerial photographer in the Army Air Corps during WWII. During the occupation of Japan, he took low-altitude atomic bomb damage photographs of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. These images are in the National Atomic Museum as well as in the book Picturing the Bomb (Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1995).

Andree Kaiser, a German photographer with the Caro photo agency, has covered social and political issues in Europe and around the world for magazines such as Stern, Focus, Der Spiegel, Time and Newsweek. He covered the Balkan conflicts for Newsday and other publications.

Frits Kalshoven is professor emeritus of international humanitarian law at Leiden University and former president of the International Fact-Finding Commission. He chaired the UN Commission of Experts on the former Yugoslavia. He is the author of Constraints on the Waging of War (Martinus Nijhoff, 1987).

Ed Kashi is a photojournalist whose work has been published and exhibited worldwide. He is author of Aging in America: The Years Ahead (powerHouse Books, 2003). In 2002 he founded Talking Eyes Media, a non-profit multimedia company that explores social issues.

Yunghi Kim is a photographer with Contact Press Images. She has worked in Somalia, Rwanda, Indonesia, Kosovo Afghanistan and Iraq, among other places, and was named Photographer of the Year in 1997 by the NPPA.

Gary Knight is a photographer and co-founder of the VII Photo Agency. His book Evidence: The Case against Milosevic was published by de.MO in 2002.

Josef Koudelka, a photographer with Magnum Photos, won the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1969 for his coverage of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia. Other awards include the Prix Nadar (1978) and the Grand Prix International Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991).

Antonin Kratochvil, photojournalist and co-founder of VII photo agency, has covered conflict and social and environmental issues around the world.
Danilo Krstanovic, a photographer for Reuters, has exhibited in many exhibitions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and abroad.

Daoud Kuttab is director of modern media, Al Quds University, Jerusalem, and founder of AmmanNet, the first Internet radio station in the Arab world. In 1997 he received the Committee to Protect Journalists International Press Freedom Award.

Peggy Lampl was project director for the first
edition of this book and is currently a member of the Crimes of War Project’s board. She has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (U.S.) and as executive director of the Children’s Defense Fund and the League of Women Voters.

Charles Lane covers the Supreme Court for the Washington Post. He is the former editor of the New Republic and foreign correspondent for Newsweek. He received a Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club for his coverage of the former Yugoslavia.

Annie Leibovitz is a photographer with Contact Press Images. Known for her portrait photography in Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, she went on several personal assignments to photograph Sarajevo and Rwanda in 1993 and 1994. Her most recent book is A Photographer's Life:
1990-2005 (Random House, 2006).

Roger Lemoyne, a Canadian photojournalist, has covered stories around the world and won several international awards. A selection of his work is published in the book Détails Obscurs (400
Coups, 2005).

Alex Levac is staff photographer at Ha'aretz (Tel Aviv). He received the 1993 Rita Poretzky Award for Photography from the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. He is author of An Eye to Zion (Am Oved, 1996) and Our Country (Mod, 2000).

Howard S. Levie is professor emeritus of law at the St. Louis University Law School. He drafted the Korean Armistice Agreement and served as chief of the International Affairs Division,
Office of The Judge Advocate General. He is the author of Levie on the Law of War (Naval War College, 1998).

Gideon Levy, a columnist for Ha'aretz (Tel Aviv), won the Israeli Human Rights Award from the Association for Civil Rights in Israel in 1996. He served as press aide to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres from 1978 to 1982.

Pedro Linger Gasiglia, photographer, documented the work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team in conjunction with local human rights organizations in El Salvador. Born in Argentina, he is now based in New York.

Paul Lowe is a freelance photographer and teacher living and working between Sarajevo and London. He has covered international events in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Since 2004, he has been course director of the masters program in photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication Peter Maass, a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, reported on the invasion of Iraq and its aftermath. He also reported from the former Yugoslavia for the Washington Post in the 1990s and is the author of Love Thy Neighbor: A Story of War (Knopf, 1996), which won the 1996 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the 1996 Overseas Press Club Book Prize.

Sean Maguire is the editor of Reuters’ political and general news coverage across Europe. He is the former chief correspondent in Warsaw for Reuters News Agency, and covered Kosovo and other eastern European issues. He has reported on both the Gulf War and the Iraq War.

Stephanie Maupas is a journalist in the Hague reporting on the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal and the International Criminal Court for Le Monde.

Don McCullin is a photographer with Contact Press Images. A collection of his work, Don McCullin, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2001. He was awarded the CBE in 1993.

Steve McCurry, a photographer with Magnum Photos, has covered conflicts around the world. His most recent book is Looking East (Phaidon, 2006).

Susan Meiselas is a photographer with Magnum Photos, who is known for her coverage of Latin America. She received the Robert Capa Gold Medal in 1979 for her work in Nicaragua and more recently published the book Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History (Random House, 1997).

Eric Mencher, staff photographer at the Philadelphia Inquirer since 1987, has covered regional, national and international assignments. He received the 1999 Overseas Press Club/John Faber Award for his work in Rwanda.

Sheryl A. Mendez is a widely published photojournalist whose work has appeared in the London Sunday Times Magazine, the Independent, the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, Nouvel Observateur, and on National Public Radio. She covered the war in Iraq and its aftermath from 2003 to 2005 and the Lebanon War of 2006. She is on the Board of November Eleven—a non-profit organization supporting independent media and humanitarian aid efforts worldwide.

Theodor Meron is Charles L. Denison Professor Emeritus at New York University Law School, and a judge on the Appeals Chamber of the war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. He was president of the Yugoslavia tribunal from 2003-5. He is the author of War Crimes Law Comes of Age (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Bloody Constraint: War and Chivalry in Shakespeare (Oxford University Press, 1998).

Frits Meyst, a Dutch photographer, has covered conflicts in Europe and the Middle East for many newspapers and magazines. He won the Silver Camera Award for best press photo of the year in 1991.

Ed Miles was the associate director of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation (VVAF), and worked on the International Campaign to Ban Landmines for which VVAF shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize. He died in January of 2004.

Etienne Montes is a photographer who has covered conflicts in Spain, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Honduras, Cuba, Chile, Peru, South Africa, Lebanon, and Ireland.

Benny Morris is a professor of history at Ben-Gurion University, Beersheba, Israel. He is author of Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War (Oxford University Press, 1997), Righteous Victims: A History of the Arab-Zionist Conflict (Knopf, 1999), and The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (Cambridge University Press, 2004).

Seamus Murphy is a photographer for AWP/World Picture News.

Karma Nabulsi is a university lecturer in international relations at Oxford University, and fellow in politics at St. Edmund Hall. She is the author of Traditions of War: Occupation, Resistance and the Law (Oxford University Press, 1999).

James Nachtwey, photojournalist, has been a contract photographer with Time magazine since 1984. In 2001, he became one of the founding members of the photo agency, VII. He has won the Robert Capa Gold Medal five times, and the World Press Photo Award twice, among many other prizes.

Hrant Nakashian photographed conditions in Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza and the West Bank for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency after it was established in 1949.

Zed Nelson is a photographer based in London. He has covered wars in Africa and Afghanistan, and won several prizes for his work on the gun culture in the United States, Gun Nation.

Elizabeth Neuffer was a foreign correspondent for the Boston Globe and author of The Key to My Neighbour's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwanda (Picador, 2001). She was awarded the 1998 Courage in Journalism Award. She was killed in an automobile accident while on assignment in Iraq on May 9, 2003.

Don Oberdorfer is a distinguished journalist in residence and adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. He is the author of The Two Koreas (Basic Books, 2001), Tet: A History of the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam (Johns Hopkins University, 2001), and Senator Mansfield (Smithsonian Books, 2003).

Diane F. Orentlicher is a professor of international law at American University's Washington College of Law and co-director of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. In 2004 she was appointed by the UN Secretary General to update the United Nations' principles on combating impunity.

William A. Orme, Jr. is chief of external communications at the United Nations Development Programme. He was a reporter for the New York Times in Jerusalem and served as executive
director of the Committee to Protect Journalists from 1993 to 1998.

Ramazan Ozturk works as a freelance photographer for Time magazine and for the daily Sabah (Turkey). He has covered he Iran-Iraq war, the Halabja gas attack, the wars in Bosnia, and many important events in Turkey since 1974.

George Packer is a staff writer for the New Yorker. He was awarded two Overseas Press Club awards for his work in 2003, one for his Iraq coverage and the other for his reporting on the civil war in Sierra Leone. He is author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005).

Paolo Pellegrin is a photographer with Magnum Photos and a Newsweek contract photographer. He has produced award-winning reports covering Albania, Kosovo, Aids in Uganda, and children in war zones.

Gilles Peress is a photographer for Magnum Photos who has covered conflicts in Northern Ireland, Iran, Bosnia, Rwanda, Kosovo, and
the Middle East. He was twice president of Magnum and has received numerous awards for his work. His books include Telex: Iran (Scalo, 1994) and A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo (University of California Press, 2002).

Mark Perry is a military, intelligence and foreign affairs analyst and co-director of Conflicts
Forum. He was formerly a senior foreign policy analyst for the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation, which shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for its role in the campaign to ban land mines. He is the author of A Fire in Zion (William Morrow, 1994), and Conceived in Liberty (Viking, 1997).

Nicole Pope is a journalist and writer based in Istanbul, who was Turkey correspondent for Le Monde (France) for 15 years and formerly worked for the ICRC. She is the co-author of Turkey Unveiled: a History of Modern Turkey (Overlook Press, 1998).

John Prendergast is the Senior Adviser to the President of International Crisis Group and former Director of African Affairs at the National Security Council.

Dana Priest reports on U.S. intelligence and military special operations for the Washington Post. She was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2006 for her coverage of the CIA's counterterrorism operations. She is author of The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace With America's Military (Norton, 2003).

Peter Pringle is a freelance journalist and author. He was bureau chief in Washington, New York and Moscow for the Independent (UK). He has written several non-fiction books, including most recently Food Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto—The Promise and Perils of the Biotech Harvest (Simon & Schuster, 2003).

Gerard Prunier is a research professor at the University of Paris and director of the French Center for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa. He is author of Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide (Cornell University Press, 2005) and a forthcoming book on the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Noel Quidu, a photojournalist with the Gamma Presse agency since 1988, has covered numerous conflicts, notably in Afghanistan, Lebanon, the Persian Gulf, former Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Chechnya. He has received three World Press Photo awards.

Gaby Rado was the foreign affairs correspondent for ITN's Channel Four News in the U.K. He died after falling from the roof of a hotel while on assignment in Sulaimaniya, Iraq, on March 30, 2003.

Jonathan C. Randal is a former foreign correspondent for the Washington Post from 1969 to 1998. He is the author of After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? My Encounters in Kurdistan (Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1997) and Osama: The Making of a Terrorist (Vintage Books, 2005).

Erich Rathfelder is a German journalist for Die Tageszeitung (Berlin) who has reported extensively on the former Yugoslavia. He is the author of Schnittpunkt Sarajevo (Schiler, 2006) and Sarajevo und Danach (Beck-Verlag, 1998).

Steven R. Ratner is a professor of law at the University of Michigan. He was a member of the UN's expert group investigating potential prosecution of Khmer Rouge officials for their atrocities in Cambodia. He is co-author of Accountability for Human Rights Atrocities in International Law: Beyond the Nuremberg Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2nd ed. 2001).

Barry Renfrew is vice president of global business for Europe, Africa and the Middle East for the Associated Press. He covered the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and was bureau chief in Islamabad, Seoul, Johannesburg, Moscow, Sydney and London.

David Rieff, co-editor of this book, is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He has also written for Foreign Affairs, Harper's, the New Republic, the Nation, Prospect, the New Yorker and other publications. His books include Slaughterhouse (Simon & Schuster, 1995), A Bed for the Night (Simon & Schuster, 2002) and At the Point of a Gun (Simon & Schuster, 2005).

Patrick Robert is a freelance photographer with Corbis. He has covered almost every war in Africa and the Middle East in the last twenty years. He was seriously injured by small arms fire in Liberia in 2003.

Sir Adam Roberts is the Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. He is co-author of United Nations, Divided World: The UN's Roles in International Relations (2nd ed., Oxford University Press, 1993) and is the co-editor of Documents on
the Laws of War (3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2000).

Gwynne Roberts, an independent filmmaker, has produced documentaries for broadcasters around the world including PBS (USA), BBC and Channel Four (UK), and ZDF, ARD (Germany). His films have highlighted major human rights violations in Iraq—in particular the gassing of the Iraqi Kurds and the regime's mass killing of Kurdish civilians. In 1992 he received an Overseas
Press Club Award for Wings of Death, a landmark documentary establishing the gassing of the Iraqi Kurds.

George Rodrigue is vice president and managing editor of the Dallas Morning News. A former Washington correspondent and European bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News, he shared the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and the 1994 Pulitzer for international reporting.

A. P. V. Rogers, OBE, is a retired major general in the British Army and a recognized expert on the laws of war. He is a fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Center for International Law at Cambridge University. He received the 1997
Paul Reuter prize for Law on the Battlefield (Manchester University Press, 1996, 2nd ed. 2004).

David Rohde is a reporter for the New York Times and author of Endgame: The Betrayal and Fall of Srebrenica (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1997). His investigation of mass graves at Srebrenica for the Christian Science Monitor won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting as well as the George Polk, Sigma Delta Chi and Overseas Press Club Awards.

Daniel Gyula Rosenthal is a staff photographer for the Dutch national daily De Volkskrant covering news and personal projects worldwide.

Richard Ross, photographer and professor of art at UCSB, has photographed for many American and international publications. He is the principal photographer for the Getty Conservation Institute documenting the research work of the GCI in El Salvador, Honduras, Tunisia, and China.

Peter Rowe is a professor in the Department of Law, the University of Lancaster in England. He is the author of The Impact of Human Rights Law on Armed Forces (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Elizabeth Rubin is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. She covered the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq for the New Republic, and has also written for the New Yorker and Harper's. She received an Overseas Press Club citation for her reporting on mercenaries for Harper's.

John Ryle is Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology at Bard College, NY, and Chair of the Rift Valley Institute.

Q. Sakamaki is a photographer with Redux Pictures who has coverd wars in Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, Algeria, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Liberia and Sri Lanka. He won a World Press Photo award and two Pictures of The Year International prizes in 2007.

Sebastião Salgado is a photographer with Contact Press Images. Twice named Photographer of the Year by the International Center of Photography, he has received numerous awards and honorary degrees. His books include Workers (Aperture, 1993), Migrations: Humanity in Transition (Aperture, 2000) and The End of Polio (Bulfinch, 2003).

Kyoichi Sawada was a photojournalist best known for his photos of Southeast Asia. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966, a World Press Photo contest Grand Prize, and the Overseas Press Club Award. After his death in Cambodia in 1970, he was awarded the Robert Capa Gold Medal.

Sydney H. Schanberg currently writes for the Village Voice. He won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for his New York Times reporting on the fall of Cambodia. He also won two Overseas Press Club Awards, two George Polk Memorial Awards, two
Newspaper Guild Front Page Awards, and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for distinguished journalism.

Michael N. Schmitt, legal editor for the second edition of this book, was formerly professor of international law at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany,
and in 2007 will take up a two-year appointment as Charles H. Stockton Visiting Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College.

Kurt Schork was a war correspondent for Reuters News Agency, and covered numerous conflicts including those in Afghanistan, the Balkans, Cambodia, Chechnya, East Timor, Iraq, Kashmir, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Turkey. He was killed in an ambush in Sierra Leone on May 24, 2000.

Heidi Schumann is an independent photojournalist and documentary photographer. She photographs for the New York Times, and has also worked with several other magazines and newspapers.

Thom Shanker covers national security and foreign policy issues for the New York Times in Washington. At the Chicago Tribune, he was foreign editor, Moscow bureau chief, and, while Senior European correspondent, covered the war in Bosnia from 1992 to 1994.

William Shawcross is a freelance journalist who has written about Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and the United States. He is author of Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia (Simon & Schuster, 1979), The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, The Holocaust, and Modern Conscience (Simon & Schuster, 1984), and Allies: The United States, Britain, Europe and the War in Iraq (Atlantic Books, 2003).

Jean-Marie Simon trained as a lawyer and worked as a journalist and photojournalist in Guatemala for several years. She was a consultant to a number of human rights organizations and is the author of Guatemala: Eternal Spring, Eternal Tyranny (W.W. Norton, 1988).

Lewis M. Simons is a freelance writer for National Geographic and other publications. He shared the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and has won a George Polk Award, three Overseas Press Club Awards, and an Edward R. Murrow Award.

P.W. Singer is Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell University Press, 2003) and Children at War (Pantheon, 2005).

E. Benjamin Skinner is the author of the forthcoming book "A Crime So Monstrous": A Living History of Contemporary Slavery, which chronicles modern-day bondage on five continents as well as American abolitionist efforts. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Travel + Leisure, the Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, the Foreign Service Journal and others.

Patrick J. Sloyan is a freelance writer and former senior Washington bureau correspondent for Newsday. He received the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, and has won the American Society of Newspaper Editors', George Polk, and Raymond Clapper Awards for outstanding journalism.

Frank Smyth is a freelance journalist and Washington Representative of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He has served as an investigative consultant to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International.

Sgt. Graham Spark is a photographer with the British Royal Air Force. He was stationed in Sarajevo in 1997 to document the work of multinational soldiers traveling through Bosnia. He was awarded the MBE in 2000.

Dr. Heike Spieker is Head of the International Law and International Institutions Department of the German Red Cross and visiting professor at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict in Bochum, Germany, and at the University College Dublin, Ireland.

Amy Stevens is a designer and entrepreneur based in New York.

Bruno Stevens became a photojournalist in 1998 after 20 years in the music business. His work has been published in Stern, Libération, the Sunday Times Magazine, Time, Newsweek, Paris-Match and other publications.

Alexandra Stiglmayer covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia for Time magazine and is the author of Mass Rape: The War Against Women in Bosnia-Herzegovina (University of Nebraska Press, 1994). She is currently a speechwriter at the European Commission in Brussels.

Tom Stoddart, a photographer with Getty Images, has covered international stories for publications including the Sunday Times and Time. Recently he has worked on the impact of AIDS in Africa. He is the author of iWitness (Trolley Books, 2004).

Eric Stover is Director of the Human Rights Center and Adjunct Professor of Public Health at the University of California at Berkeley. He is author of The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) and co-editor of My Neighbour, My Enemy (Cambridge University Press, 2005).

Jeff Streeper is Director of Modern IDENTITY in New York. In partnership with Gilles Peress, he designed and produced both editions of this book and helped establish the Crimes of War Project. He was co-designer/author of A Village Destroyed, May 14, 1999: War Crimes in Kosovo (University of California Press, 2002).

Sean Sutton worked for nine years as a photojournalist for the international press and aid agencies. In 1997 he became Information Manager for the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), an NGO which works to clear landmines and other remnants of conflict.

Terence Taylor is director of the International Council for the Life Sciences and was previously the president and executive director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies-U.S. In October 2006, he was appointed to the five-member special advisory group for the UN Secretary-General's initiative on biotechnology.

Andrew Testa is a photographer who has worked extensively in the Balkans. He has won many awards and received a Getty grant in 2006 to continue his work in Kosovo.

Colin Thomas-Jensen is based in the International Crisis Group's office in Washington DC, where he has a range of responsibilities across the Africa program. He worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where he was an information officer on the humanitarian response team for Darfur.

Guy Tillim is a photographer who has worked extensively in central and southern Africa. In 2005 he won the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his Jo'burg series, and in 2006 he was awarded the Robert Gardner Fellowship at Harvard.

Sven Torfinn is a photographer who has been based in Nairobi since 2000. In 2005 he won a World Press Photo Award for his coverage of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Larry Towell, a photographer with Magnum Photos, is best known for his works on Palestine and Central America. He has received several World Press and Pictures of the Year awards, as well as the Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eugene Smith, and Oskar Barnack awards.

David Turns is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Liverpool in England and a Visiting Lecturer for the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy. He is the editor of International Law and Espionage (Martinus Nijhoff, 1995, begun by the late Dr. J. Kish) and has written widely on international law.

Geert Van Kesteren is a photojournalist who has worked in Africa and Iraq. His images from Iraq were published in the book Why Mister, Why? (Artimo, 2004).

Dejan Vekic, a photographer and videographer based in Sarajevo, documented the destruction of the city for the Commission on War Crimes during the Bosnian war.

Marita Vihervuori is a Finnish journalist who covered the wars in the former Yugoslavia for the Austrian Press Agency. She has written books on Iran, Libya, and the Balkans, and was named as Finland's Journalist of the Year in 2003.

Teun Voeten is an award-winning war photojournalist and author. His work from Colombia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Bosnia has been published in leading publications worldwide. He lives in New York and Brussels.

Ed Vulliamy is a journalist with The Guardian and the author of Seasons in Hell: Understanding Bosnia's War (Simon & Schuster, 1994). His prizes include: British Press Awards, International Reporter of the Year (1992 and 1996); Amnesty International Award for newspaper journalism (1992); James Cameron Memorial Award (1994), and "What the Papers Say" Foreign Correspondent of the Year (1992).

Lawrence Weschler is director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. A retired staff writer for the New Yorker, he is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award and 1998 winner of the Lannan Literary Award. He is the author of A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (University of Chicago Press, 1998), Vermeer in Bosnia (Vintage, 2005) and Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (McSweeneys Books, 2006).

Alvaro Ybarra Zavala is a photographer with the VU agency. His project Children of Sorrow documented the condition of children affected by violence around the world. He has also worked extensively in Fallujah, Iraq.