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Biographies of Contributors 1733International Cooperation. Between mid-1998 and 2004 hewas director of the Technical Assistance and Training Department,(PECDAR), in charge of implementing a US$ 23-million World Bank Technical Assistance Trust Fund. Between1995 and 1997 he worked as Chief Technical Advisor,United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Programmeof Assistance to the Palestinian People, providingtraining and consultancy services to the Palestinian Authorityon public administration development and institutionbuilding. Between 1990 and 1995, he founded and acted aschairman of the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy,Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan. He frequentlyparticipates in local, regional and international conference,and is author and co-author of numerous academicbooks and articles in English and Arabic. He co-authoredwith Dr. Munther Dajani: Economic Sanctions: Ideals andExperience (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1983); EconomicDiplomacy (Boulder, Colorado: Westview, 1985); Al-Siyassa: Nazariat wa Mafaheem [Politics: Concepts andTheories (Amman: Palomino Press, 1986); al-Nizam al-Siyassial-Urduni [An Introduction to the Jordanian PoliticalSystem] (Amman: Palomino Press, 1993); Manhajiet al-Bahth al-Ilmi fi ilm el-Siyassa [Scientific Research Methodologyin Political Science] (Jerusalem: Al-Quds Universityand the Palestinian Center for Regional Studies, 1997); Al-Democratia wal Ta’adudieh [Democracy and Political Pluralism](Al-Bireh: Palestinian Center for Regional Studies,1998); al-Hukum wa al-Idara (Government and Administration(Jerusalem: al-Quds University, 2001); al-Muqademahfi al-Ulum Al-Siassiyah (Introduction to Political Science(Jerusalem: al-Quds University, 2009).He is author of:Mu’jam al-Quds [Quds Glossary of International Terms](Jerusalem: Palestinian Center for Regional Studies, 2001);Wasatia (Jerusalem, Wasatia Publishing, 2007); Wasatia:Min al-Nazaria ila Tatbik [Wasatia: From Theory to Practice](Jerusalem: Wasatia Publishing, 2008); Biblioghrafia al-Quds al-Sharif [A Bibliography of Arabic Books on Jerusalem]( Jerusalem: Wasatia Publishing, 2009); Biblioghrafiaal-Kutub al-Arabia on American Affairs [A Bibliography ofArabic Books on American Affairs] (Jerusalem: Al-QudsUniversity, 2009); Wasatia: The Spirit of Islam (Jerusalem:Wasatia Publishing, 2009).Address: Prof. Dr. Mohammed Dajani Daoudi, P. O. Box14085, Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem, Israel.Email: and < mohddajani@hotmail.com>.Website: and .Ashraf M. Dajani (Palestine), Ph. D. Candidate at the LawDepartment of the European University Institute in Florence,Italy. His doctorate dissertation is entitled “Jerusalemin international law”. He received master degrees from theEuropean University Institute, the University of Lund, andthe University of Malta where he studied International Law,Human Rights and Democratization.Address: Mr. Ashraf Al-Dajani, Department of Law, EuropeanUniversity Institute, Via Boccaccio 121,1-50133, Florence,Italy.Email: , .Simon Dalby (Canada), Ph.D. (Simon Fraser University,Vancouver), Professor of Geography, Environmental Etudiesand Political Economy, Carleton University, Ottawa. Hisresearch work concerns critical geopolitics, environmentalsecurity and political ecology and increasingly how all thesematters link up with contemporary discussions of empire,and modes of urban consumption in the metropoles of theglobal economy. His articles have appeared in diversescholarly journals including: Alternatives, Antipode, AustralianJournal of International Affairs, Geopolitics, GlobalEnvironmental Politics, Intelligence and National Security,International Politics, Political Geography, Society andSpace and Studies in Political Economy. He is author of:Creating the Second Cold War (London – New York: Pinterand Guilford, 1990) and Environmental Security (Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press, 2002); Security and EnvironmentalChange (Cambridge: Polity, 2009). He is coeditorof: Rethinking Geopolitics (London: Routledge,1998); The Geopolitics Reader (London: Routledge 11998,22006) and of the journal Geopolitics.Address: Prof. Dr. Simon Dalby, Department of Geographyand Environmental Studies, Carleton University, 1125 ColonelBy Drive, Ottawa, Ontario, K1S5B6 Canada.Email: .Website: .Amb. Jayantha Dhanapala (Sri Lanka) has been Presidentof the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairssince November 2007. From 1998 to 2003 he was UnderSecretary-General of the United Nations for Disarmament.See biographies of authors of forewords and preface essays.Abdel Kader Dodo (Niger), Expert in Hydrogeology andin charge of the Water Programme and Manager of the IullemedenAquifer System (IAS) project at the Sahara andSahel Observatory (OSS). He has PhD from the Universityof Neuchâtel in Switzerland focusing on groundwater deepflows in the great Niger basin. Since 1993, he has served asa senior lecturer and researcher at the Abdou MoumouniUniversity in Niamey (Niger). Concurrently, in 2000, hewas appointed as the national director for water resourcesat the Ministry in charge of water resource in the Republicof Niger. He joined OSS in 2004. He has published articlesand co-authored books in hydrogeology and hydro-ecology.He was also engaged in several regional and internationalresearch activities. In 2006, due to his contribution at thenational level, he became an Officer in the National Orderof Merit in the Republic of Niger.Address 1: Dr. Abdel Kader Dodo, Sahara and SahelObservatory (OSS), Boulevard du Leader Yasser Arafat, BP31, 1080, Tunis, Tunisia.Address 2: Dr. Abdel Kader Dodo, Université Abdou Moumouni,Faculté des Sciences, Département de Géologie, BP10662, Niamey, Niger.Email: .Website: .