David Carment
School of International Affairs, Carleton University
Canada

David Carment, was a World Peace Foundation Fellow at Harvard University 2000-2001. He is currently the Director of the Centre for Security and Defence Studies (CSDS) at Carleton University, Ottawa and a professor of International Affairs at Carleton University. He continues to serve as the principal investigator for the Country Indicators for Foreign Policy (CIFP) project. He is a member of the Board of Directors for The Forum on Early Warning and Early Response (www.fewer.org). His most recent work focuses on conflict prevention capacity building (see the working paper series at www.idrc.ca); developing risk assessment and early warning training manuals for NGOs and Regional Organizations (see www.carleton.ca/cifp) evaluating models of third party intervention (see www.carleton.ca/~dcarment/index.html).

Rasheed Draman
Department of Political Science, Carleton University
Canada

Rasheed Draman is currently finishing his Ph.D. in Political Science at Carleton University. His doctoral dissertation is a comparative study of f our cases of Conflict Prevention in Africa. Mr. Draman has a BA (First Class) from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana and an MA in International Relations from the International University of Japan. Before joining the Parliamentary Centre, Mr. Draman worked as Consultant for the Africa Branch and the Peacebuilding Unit of the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA).

Mr. Draman's interests include the links between poverty and insecurity, governance and conflict prevention. He has written extensively on these issues. He also teaches Development and Conflict (part-time) in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University.