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malathi de alwis, a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, Sri Lanka, and Visiting Professor of Anthropology at New School University, NY, is co-editor of Embodied Violence: Communalising Women's Sexuality in South Asia (Delhi: Kali for Women/London: Zed, 1996) and a founder-member of the Women's Coalition for Peace, Sri Lanka.

rita arditti was born in Argentina and has lived in the United States since 1965. She is on the faculty of the Graduate College of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Union Institute. Her most recent book is Searching for Life: the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina (California University Press 1999).

sandra t. azar is a faculty member at the Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology at Clark University. She has published extensively on child abuse and family violence, as well as on professional biases on class, race, and ethnicity as individuals interact with societal systems (schools, mental health, courts).

amrita basu teaches political science and women's and gender studies at Amherst College. She is interested in social movements, particularly in the birth of religious nationalism in India and women's activism both in religious nationalist movements and in women's movements.

cynthia cockburn is a feminist researcher and writer, based in the Department of Sociology at The City University London. Her current research focus is gender, war, and peace processes, and her most recent book is The Space Between Us: Negotiating Gender and National Identities in Conflict (Zed Books 1998). She lives in London where she is active in the women's anti-militarist network Women in Black Against War.

carol cohn is a Senior Research Scholar at Wellesley College. Her recent projects include a piece on “Feminist Ethical Perspectives on Weapons of Mass Destruction,” coauthored with Sara Ruddick, and new research on the integration of gender analysis into international peace and security organizations. Her book, Wars, Wimps and Women: Gender in the Construction of National Security is forthcoming from the University of California Press.

val moghadam was born in Iran and attended university in Canada and the U.S., earning a Ph.D. in sociology from the American University in Washington, D.C., in 1986. After teaching at New York University, she joined the United Nations, where she was senior researcher and coordinator of the research program on women and development at the wider Institute of the United Nations University, in Helsinki, Finland. Since 1997 she has been Director of the Women's Studies Program and Associate Professor of Sociology at Illinois State University. Dr. Moghadam is the author of, among others, Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East (1993). She has also edited Identity Politics and Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective (1993) and Gender and National Identity: Women and Politics in Muslim Societies (1995), along with other volumes.