Ahmad Wais Wardak is a Ph.D. Candidate of Political Science at the University of Connecticut with a Master’s Degree in International Studies. He currently works as the Traditional Justice Advisor for the USAID’s Rule of Law Project at Checchi and Company Consulting, Inc. in Afghanistan. In addition, Wais Wardak has been the co-founder of the Gorbat Cultural Organization and, for six years, served as the editor of its bimonthly magazine, The Gorbat. Including numerous journalistic reports, he is the author of two academic journal articles, The Afghan Conflict: Foreign Intervention and Ideological Competition (2006), and The Application of Islam for Political Purposes in Afghanistan (2007).

Andrew Corin was a Research Officer with the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY from June 1999 through January 2008. Among his duties in that capacity, he analyzed expert submissions by prosecution and defense teams, articulated guidelines relevant to expertise, and himself authored multiple expert submissions and testified as an expert. He is the author of one book and numerous articles on Slavic linguistics, textual analysis, and intensive foreign language instructional methodology. In 2007, he was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Richard Ashby Wilson is the Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, professor of anthropology and law, and director of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on human rights, truth commissions, and international criminal tribunals, including The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (2001), Human Rights in the “War on Terror” (2005) and Humanitarianism and Suffering: The Mobilization of Empathy (2009, co-edited with Richard D. Brown). His most recent book is Writing History in International Criminal Trials, published in the Law Series of Cambridge University Press (2011).