HARRY BAUER Researcher in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UKDENNIS DIJKZEUL Professor of the Management of Humanitarian Crises, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Ruhr Universität, Bochum, GermanyANTONIO DONINI Senior Researcher at the Feinstein International Famine Center (FIFC), Tufts University, USASUSAN GEORGE Chair of the Planning Board, Transnational Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Vice-President of the Association for Taxation of Financial Transaction to Aid Citizens (ATTAC), FranceBORIS HOLZER Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich, GermanyMIKHAIL MOLCHANOV Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, St Thomas University, CanadaGERHARD J. KLOSE Advisor to German military forces in Afghanistan, and former Chief of the Policy and Doctrine Branch on Civil Military Co-operation (CIMIC), Ministry of Defence, Bonn, GermanyTHOMAS OLESEN Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, DenmarkSHALINI RANDERIA Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Zurich, SwitzerlandDAVID RIEFF Senior Fellow at The World Policy Institute at the New School, New York, USADIETER RUCHT Head of the Civil Society, Citizenship and Political Mobilisation in Europe Research Group at the Social Science Research Centre, Berlin, GermanySUSANNE SOEDERBERG Associate Professor and a Canada Research Chairin Global Political Economy in the Development Studies Programme, Queen's University, CanadaTONY VAUX Independent Consultant for Humanitarian and Conflict Policy issues; previously Global Emergencies Co-ordinator at Oxfam, UK, and is a former Visiting Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University, UK