Stephen Stedman joined the Center for International Security and Cooperation in 1997 as a Senior Research Scholar. His research interests include civil wars, mediation, conflict prevention, and peacekeeping. Before coming to Stanford, he was an associate professor of African studies at the Johns Hopkins Univerity School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC. In 1993, Professor Stedman was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, where he studied the negotiations for a new constitution. He was an election observer in Angola in 1992 and in South Africa in 1994. Professor Stedman has served as a consultant to the United Nations on issues of peacekeeping in civil war, light weapons proliferation and conflict in Africa, and preventive diplomacy. Professor Stedman is the author of Peacemaking in Civil War: International Mediation in Zimbabwe, 1974-1980 (Lynne Rienner, 1991), and co-author of The New Is Not Yet Born: Conflict Resolution in Southern Africa (Brookings Institution, 1994) and Politics and Society in Contemporary Africa, 3rd Edition (Lynne Rienner, 1999). Professor Stedman's current research includes a collaborative project with the International Peace Academy on the implementation of peace agreements in civil wars; a project with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy on the manipulation of refugees by warring parties; a comparative investigation of recent wars in Africa and wars in the former Soviet Union (with David Holloway); and the study of ethical dilemmas in civil wars.

Andrew Russell began his career in 1989 with the Canadian International Development Agency, where he helped to develop innovative youth outreach activities. He joined the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in 1990, where until 1993 he was a program officer in El Salvador and from 1995 to 1998 the Assistant Representative in Guatemala. Since 1998 he has been based in New York, first as the desk officer for Central America and since 2000 as an adviser to the Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Byron Bland is Associate Director of the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation (SCCN) and Research Associate at the Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL). For the past twenty years, he has taught an interdisciplinary course on peace. A former Stanford campus minister, he has served as an ombudsman and conflict resolution consultant for various community and church groups. His more recent work explores the politics of reconciliation in divided societies.