Mark Malan (M Mil) is a senior researcher and 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. Malan has presented numerous papers on security issues 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. E-mail: mm@iss.org.za

Phenyo Keiseng Rakate (LLM) joined the ISS (Training for Peace Project) as a researcher in January 2001. He previously worked as Judges' Researcher at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. In 1998 he worked as a Law Clerk in the Office of the Public Prosecutor (OTP) of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague. In 1999 he was appointed Lecturer in the School of Law of the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, and in 2000 was Visiting Research Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for International and Comparative Public Law in Heidelberg, Germany. Phenyo has published a number of articles on issues relating to constitutional law, international humanitarian law and transitional justice. E-mail: Phenyo@iss.org.za

Angela McIntyre joined the Institute for Security Studies in April 2001 as coordinator and researcher for InterAct, a project on children in armed conflict in Africa. She spent 6 years in Mozambique working with a number of national and international non-Governmental organisations and United Nations Agencies (Electoral Division, United Nations Development Programme) as well as the Canadian International Development Agency. Her work has covered a variety of issues, including landmines, rural development, refugees and demobilization. Her most recent position was with the International Development Research Centre's Mine Action Programme, based in Johannesburg with projects in Mozambique and Angola. Her academic background is in Anthropology (BA) and Environmental Management (MSc). E-mail: Angela@iss.org.za