Bani Dugal
Principal Representative, United Nations Bahá'à International Community

Bani Dugal is the Principal Representative of the Bahá’à International Community to the United Nations. She is a human rights expert, and has devoted her career towards advancing the rights of women and children, and promoting freedom of worship around the world.
Principal Representative, United Nations Bahá'à International Community
Area of Expertise: Law and Human Rights, Religion, Women's Rights, Youth Issues
Geographical Expertise - Region: Asia, North America
Geographical Expertise - Country: India
Languages: English, Hindi
Field of Work: Non-Governmental, United Nations
City: New York
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Barbara Faedda
Assistant Director at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America

Dr. Barbara Faedda is the Assistant Director at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America. She is the author of two books, Luoghi di frontiera. Antropologia delle mediazioni (with L. Bindi) and I mille volti della moda, and is a contributor to various books and manuscripts on law and anthropology from Il Mulino and other publishers. She contributes regularly to the journals Gli Stranieri, Rivista di studi, giurisprudenza e legislazione and the law journal Diritto & Diritti, and is a member of the editorial staff of immigrazione.it, the professional journal of law and social sciences of the “Roma Tre” University Law School.
Assistant Director at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
Area of Expertise: Migration and Integration
Geographical Expertise - Region: Europe, North America
Languages: English, Italian
Field of Work: Author/Novelist, Law, Think tank/Research center
City: New York
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Bernard Haykel
Director, Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, Princeton University

Professor Bernard Haykel is a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, specializing in the study of the politics and history of the Middle East, particularly Islamic political movements and law.
Director, Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia, Princeton University
Area of Expertise: Civil Society, Law and Human Rights, Religion, Terrorism, Women's Rights
Geographical Expertise - Region: North Africa and Middle East, North America
Languages: Arabic, English, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Urdu
Field of Work: Academia, Author/Novelist, Think tank/Research center
City: Princeton
Country: USA
Continent: North America
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
Catharin Dalpino
Professor and Director of Thai Studies in the Asian Studies Program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Catharin Dalpino is Visiting Associate Professor and Director of Thai Studies in the Asian Studies Program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She is also Director of the Aspen Institute’s Program on Agent Orange in Vietnam, and Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States, where she directs a US-Europe-Southeast Asia Dialogue.
Professor and Director of Thai Studies in the Asian Studies Program of the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Area of Expertise: Civil Society, Defense and Security, International Relations, Law and Human Rights, Media, Politics and Governance, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: Asia, North America
Language: English
Field of Work: Academia, Author/Novelist, Think tank/Research center
City: Washington DC
Country: USA
Continent: North America
Catherine Besteman
Professor of anthropology and African studies, Colby University

Catherine Besteman is a professor of anthropology and African studies at Colby University. Her teaching interests focus on the roots of violent conflict and the forces that sustain inequality and produce poverty in Africa. She is the author of Unraveling Somalia: Race, Violence and the Legacy of Slavery, The Struggle for Land in Southern Somalia: The War Behind the War, and Violence: A Reader.
Professor of anthropology and African studies, Colby University
Area of Expertise: Law and Human Rights, Migration and Integration, War and Conflict
Geographical Expertise - Region: North America, Subsaharan Africa
Geographical Expertise - Country: Somalia
Language: English
Field of Work: Academia, Author/Novelist
City: Waterville
Country: USA
Continent: North America
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