Bernhard Platzdasch

Bernhard Platzdasch is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore.
Area of Expertise: Religion
Geographical Expertise - Region: Asia
Geographical Expertise - Country: Indonesia
Languages: English, German, Indonesian
Field of Work: Academia, Author/Novelist
City: Singapore
Country: Singapore
Continent: Asia
Bertrand Badie
Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris

Bertrand Badie is a French political scientist and international relations specialist. He is a professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and researcher associated with the Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CERI). He has written extensively about international relations theory, focusing on globalization and the structural effects it exerts on the international system, states and societies.
Professor, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Area of Expertise: Business and Globalization, International Relations, Migration and Integration, Religion, Terrorism, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: Europe
Languages: English, French
Field of Work: Academia, Author/Novelist, Think tank/Research center
City: Paris
Country: France
Continent: Europe
Bill Rolston
Professor of Sociology at the University of Ulster

Bill Rolston is Professor of Sociology at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He has researched, written and lectured on Northern Ireland society, politics and culture over the last three decades, beginning with his doctorate from Queen’s University on community development and political conflict. He is also a researcher with the Transitional Justice Institute at the University of Ulster and has published on issues of transitional justice in relation to Northern Ireland, in particular: truth recovery, memory and storytelling, the demobilization of ex-combatants, and the role of public inquiries.
Professor of Sociology at the University of Ulster
Area of Expertise: Law and Human Rights, Media, Minority Rights, Terrorism, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: Europe
Geographical Expertise - Country: Northern Ireland
Language: English
Field of Work: Academia
City: Ulster
Country: UK
Continent: Europe
Bill Ury
Chairman, the Abraham Path Initiative

Bill Ury is chairman of the Abraham Path Initiative, a project which seeks to create unity between faiths through creating a permanent path of tourism and pilgrimage in the Middle East that retraces the footsteps of Abraham, the unifying figure in the three Abrahamic faiths, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is also the co-founder of Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation, where he currently directs the Global Negotiation Project.
Chairman, the Abraham Path Initiative
Area of Expertise: Civil Society, Law and Human Rights, Media, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Africa and Middle East, North America, Subsaharan Africa
Geographical Expertise - Country: Indonesia
Languages: English, French
Field of Work: Activist/Humanitarian, Author/Novelist, Non-Governmental
City: Boston
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Boris Divinský
Consultant, the International Organization for Migration

Dr. Boris Divinský is a migration expert, geographer, demographer and sociologist from the Slovak Republic, and a consultant for the International Organization for Migration (IOM). He is credited with conducting the first in-depth research on migration in Slovakia.
Consultant, the International Organization for Migration
Area of Expertise: Migration and Integration
Geographical Expertise - Region: Europe
Languages: English, Russian
Field of Work: Non-Governmental
City: Ulster
Country: UK
Continent: Europe
Bruno Schiemsky
Former coordinator, UN Monitoring Group on Somalia

Mr. Bruno Schiemsky is former coordinator of the UN Monitoring Group on Somalia, and a security consultant in Nairobi, Kenya.
Former coordinator, UN Monitoring Group on Somalia
Area of Expertise: Development, Terrorism, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: Subsaharan Africa
Geographical Expertise - Country: Somalia
Languages: English, Flemish, French, German
Field of Work: United Nations
City: Nairobi
Country: Kenya
Continent: Africa
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