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CVs of IPI associates focusing on the issue of health and stabiliy Nasra HASSAN worked for the United Nations for 27 years in peacekeeping, refugee and humanitarian affairs, political affairs, social development, and public information & communication. She has served at UN Headquarters in New York (in UNICEF & in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations) as well as in field postings in the Middle East (UN Agency for Palestine Refugees UNRWA); in the Balkans (including as Chief of Staff of the UN Mission in Kosovo UNMIK); as well as in Albania and in Central Asia. Her last two posts were at UNHQ Vienna, in the UN Office on Drugs & Crime UNODC, and as Director of the United Nations Information Service 2004-2008; simultaneously 2005-2007 she was with the UN International Independent Investigation Commission on the assassination of former Prime Minister Hariri of Lebanon UNIIIC. Prior to joining the UN, Ms. Hassan worked for the League of Arab States. Ms. Hassan carries out research on suicide terrorism in the Islamic world as well as on jihadist militancy, and is working on two books on these subjects. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Atlantic Monthly, as well as in a number of books on terrorism, and is widely cited. She continues to be active on issues related to peacekeeping via the Association of Austrian Peacekeepers, where she functions as Director International Relations. Ms Hassan was born in Pakistan and lives in Vienna, Austria. Walter KEMP is Director for Europe and Central Asia, at the International Peace Institute (IPI) based in Vienna. He joined IPI in August 2010 after serving for four years as spokesman and speechwriter at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). Previously he worked from 1996 to 2006 for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), including as Senior Adviser to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities (in the Hague) and Senior Adviser to the OSCE Secretary General and Chairmanship. He also assisted in the drafting of the report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on increasing the effectiveness of the OSCE (2005), and the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-State Relations (2008). Walter has a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics, a masters in political science from the University of Toronto and a bachelors (honours) in history from McGill University. In November 2011 he became the first recipient of IPI's Rick Hooper Fellowship for International Peace and Security. Walter Kemp is co-author of Spotting the Spoilers: A Guide to Analyzing Organized Crime in Fragile States (2012), author of Nationalism and Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (1999) and Quiet Diplomacy in Action (2001), editor of Blood and Borders (2010), and has written several articles and chapters on issues including conflict prevention, the OSCE, the political economy of conflict, and national minorities. He has written speeches for Ban Ki-Moon, Kofi Annan, heads of state of Kazakhstan and Qatar, and has ghost written editorials that appeared in The International Herald Tribune, Washington Post, Financial Times, and The Observer. EFTA01144649 Mark SHAW is the Director of Communities, Crime and Conflicts at STATT Consulting, Hong Kong. He has wide experience of working on peace-building, conflict prevention, security sector reform and crime prevention in transitional, fragile and post-conflict states. He is currently working in Libya, Pakistan, Somalia, West Africa, the Sahel and Southern Africa. He was recently the senior Criminal Justice Advisor for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Pakistan; is an Advisory Board Member of the Open Society Justice Initiative; acts as member of the Experts Council of the International Network to Promote the Rule of Law (INPROL); was selected as the convener of the Global Initiative against Organized Crime; is a senior consultant for the International Peace Institute and the United States Institute of Peace; and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Pretoria based Institute for Security Studies. He previously worked for ten years at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), including as Inter-regional Advisor, Chief of the Criminal Justice Reform Unit and with the Global Programme against Transnational Organised Crime, with extensive field work in fragile and post- conflict states. He is South African and has held a number of other positions in government and civil society, including: Director of Monitoring and Analysis in the South African Ministry for Safety and Security, Head of the Crime and Police Programme at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, Ford Foundation Senior Fellow at the South African Institute of International Affairs, United States Institute of Peace Researcher on local conflicts at the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg, advisor to the Provincial Safety Minister for Gauteng and later the Western Cape, advisor to Business against Crime, and as a violence monitor for the National Peace Secretariat during South Africa's transition to democracy. Mark chaired the Committee of Inquiry on Police Reform in South Africa and was the chief drafter of the Government's 1998 White Paper on Safety and Security. He holds a PhD from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and has published widely on peace, security and justice reform issues. EFTA01144650