Amneh Badran is a Lecturer and Head of the Political Science Department, Al-Quds University, Palestine, and Honorary University Fellow, University of Exeter, UK. Currently, she is a faculty member in the Social Thought, Economics, and Policy (STEP) program at AQB College. From 2001-2005, she was the Director of the Jerusalem Centre for Women, actively involved in Israeli-Palestinian peacebuilding initiatives, and received the Liberty Award by Dialogue on Diversity in 2003 in recognition of her work for the cause of conciliation and human rights. Her research interests include the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, social movements, political change, and comparative political systems. You can contact her at ambadran@alquds.arts.edu

Daniel Terris is the Dean of the Al-Quds Bard College of Arts and Sciences at Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem. He is also Director Emeritus of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and a visiting professor of the humanities at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, New York. He is also the creator and leader of the Palestinian American Youth Civic Engagement (PAYCE) project, funded by the Stevens Initiative, which links Palestinian and US university students to compare ideas and experiences on young people's political and civic engagement.

Daniel Terris received his Ph.D. in the history of American civilization from Harvard University. An intellectual historian, he has written on race and ethnicity in the United States and international law and justice. His books include Ethics at Work: Creating Virtue in an American Corporation and The Trials of Richard Goldstone, The International Judge: An Introduction to the Men and Women Who Decide the World's Cases, and A Ripple of Hope: The Life of Robert F. Kennedy. You can reach him at dterris@bard.edu

Dr. Bermet Tursunkulova is the Director of Development and a professor in the Department of International and Comparative Politics at the American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She also served as the Vice-President for Academic Affairs from 2008-2015. Bermet received her Ph.D. from the Kyrgyz-Slavonic Russian University in 2006. Since 2017, she has worked for the global Snow Leopard Trust as a public relations and fundraising consultant.

In 2016, she served as Deputy Head of the World Nomad Games Secretariat in Bishkek and was responsible for coordinating the preparation activities for the World Nomad Games held in Kyrgyzstan. For this work, Bermet received the "Outstanding Service Award to Kyrgyzstan" in 2017 from Prime Minister. Bermet also brings Kyrgyz government experience having served as Deputy Minister of education in 2014-2015 and later Advisor to the Prime Minister in 2017-2018. You can contact her at tursunkulova_b@auca.kg

Dr. Galina Gorborukova is a Head and Associate Professor, in the Department of Sociology, at the American University of Central Asia, Bishkek Kyrgyzstan. She has extensive teaching experience, and high expertise in curriculum development and course design and has taught a Global Citizenship course since 2016.

She has also been involved with research and has an extensive experience with international organizations such as UN Women, UNDP, F. Ebert Foundation in Kyrgyzstan, DAAD USAID, and Open Society Institute. She has extensive expertise in conducting qualitative and quantitative studies on social change, memory, individual and collective trauma; minorities study, the everyday ethnicity and cultural interaction of ethnic groups; stratification analysis – deprivation studies, poverty and survival strategies, and political research and has published her work in peer-reviewed journals in that area.

Dr. Gorborukova has received several awards for her research. In November 2018 received a grant for the Erasmus Plus KA-2 project on the development Master’s degree program in Human Resource Management (TALENT). Certified Trainer in the MAXQDA program since 2016.

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Nassim AbiGhanem serves as faculty at Bard College Berlin. He received his MA in International Relations from the University of Manchester (2012), focusing on Middle Eastern conflicts. He recently completed his Ph.D. in International Relations at the Central European University (2021) titled "The Civil Society Organizations' Design and Implementation of Demobilization and Reintegration Programs". He also contributed a chapter on the Lebanese government’s Covid-19 response in the book The MENA Region and COVID-19: Impact, Implications, and Prospects (Routledge 2022).

His research interests include civil society organization (CSOs) resilience roles, civic engagement, non-state actors' involvement in international politics, and conflict management and peacebuilding. Outside academia, Abi Ghanem advised regional and international organizations on programmatic initiatives taking place in Lebanon. Dr. AbiGhanem was a Global Teaching Fellow at Bard College Berlin for the 2021/2022 academic year. You can contact him at n.abighanem@berlin.bard.edu

Michelle Murray is the Director of Global Initiatives and an associate professor of Political Studies at Bard College, Annandale. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has served as a fellow at the Center for International Studies, University of Chicago (2007–10); Deans Fellow in International Security and U.S. Foreign Policy, John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding, Dartmouth College (2014–15).

Murray's teaching and research interests include international relations theory; security studies; the politics of recognition among states; international history, especially pre-World War I Europe; and global governance and international organization. Her current research focuses on how the desire for status recognition shapes the military strategies of rising great powers, with a particular focus on American, British, and German naval strategy before the First World War. This work has appeared in the journals Security Studies and Global Discourse, and as chapters in edited volumes. She presents regularly at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association and International Studies Association. You can contact her at mkmurray@bard.edu

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Dr. Riaz Partha Khan is a professor of history, politics, and philosophy in the School of General Education. He has previously taught at the Asian University of Women and New York University. Dr. Khan received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. His current research explores the historical and conceptual relations between legal violence and the political forms of modern society.

rpkhan@bracu.ac.bd