Authors


Published in Monograph No 66, October 2001
Peacekeeping in the DRC, MONUC and the Road to Peace



DR JAKKIE CILLIERS is the Executive Director of the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa. He has attained the degrees BMil (BA), Hons BA, MA (cum laude) and DLitt et Phil from the Universities of Stellenbosch and South Africa. He co-founded the Institute for Defence Policy in 1990, which subsequently became the Institute for Security Studies (ISS). He has served as its executive director since 1993. Awards and decorations include the Bronze Medal from the South African Society for the Advancement of Science and the H Bradlow Research Bursary. Dr Cilliers has presented numerous papers at conferences and seminars and is a regular commentator on local and international radio and television. He regularly lectures on security issues and has published, edited and contributed to a large number of journals, books and other publications, and serves on a number of boards and committees.

MARK MALAN (M Mil) is a senior researcher and the head of the Peace Missions Programme at the Institute for Security Studies. He joined the ISS in January 1996, as head of the Training for Peace in Southern Africa project, which has facilitated a series of peacekeeping training interventions for Southern African military and police officers. He has presented numerous papers on security issues, both locally and internationally, and has published extensively on issues relating to civil-military relations, regional security and peacekeeping in Africa. Prior to joining the ISS, he was a senior lecturer in Political Science at the Faculty of Military Science of the University of Stellenbosch.