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Susanne Schmeidl is a senior research analysts at the Institute for Conflict Resolution, Swiss Peace Foundation in Berne, Switzerland. She works on an early warning project for the Swiss Government called FAST (Early Recognition of Tension and Fact Finding). Prior to this she worked as an Independent Consultant at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and as a Post Doctoral Researcher and Coordinator for the Prevention/Early Warning Unit at the Centre for Refugee Studies and York Centre for International and Strategic Studies, York University, Canada from 1995-1997. In 1996-1997 she also coordinated the Interim Secretariat of the Forum on Early Warning and Early Response, an international consortium of IGOs, UN organizations, NGOs and academic research centres. A native of Germany, Dr. Schmeidl received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Ohio State University in 1995. Her dissertation, which will be published in a revised form by Praeger as a book entitled "International Forced Migration - Exploring a Refugee Early Warning Model," dealt with the issue of refugee early warning and the quantitative prediction of refugee exodus. Dr. Schmeidl's research on early warning and the dynamics of forced migration has resulted in several book chapters and articles in refereed journals such as International Migration Review (1998), Social Science Quarterly (1997), Sociological Focus (1995), and the International Journal of Group Tensions (1994). Dr. Schmeidl also edited a two special issue of Refuge: Canada's Periodical on Refugees on Early Warning in 1996 and 1997.
Howard Adelman has been a Professor of Philosophy at York University in Toronto since 1966. He was the founder and Director of the Centre for Refugee Studies and editor of Canada's periodical on refugees, Refuge, until 1993. Currently he edits an electronic journal, Contemporary International Issues and is active in the Sgrican unit of the Centre for International and Security Studies at York University. He has served in many university positions, including Acting Dean of Atkinson College and two terms as director of the graduate program in philosophy at York University. Professor Adelman has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants and has authored and edited 18 monographs, edited books and special editions of journals, as well as 31 chapters in edited books and 45 articles in refereed journals. Howard Adelman has written extensively on the Middle East, humanitarian intervention, membership rights, ethics, refugee policy and refugee resettlement. His three most recent co-edited volumes were: Immigration and Refugee Policy: Australia and Canada Compared, University of Melbourne Press and University of Toronto Press, African Refugees, Westview Press, and, with Astri Suhrke, Early Warning and Conflict Management: the Genocide in Rwanda, DANIDA, Copenhagen. His co-edited book, The Path of a Genocide: The Rwanda Crisis from Uganda to Zaire, Transaction Press, is due for publication in November 1998.
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