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Jean-Nicolas Bordeleau, Flinders University

Daniel Maxwell, Tufts University; Alex de Waal, Tufts University; Luka Kuol, University of Juba; Merry Fitzpatrick, Tufts University, and Peter Hailey, Tufts University

Kerstin Bree Carlson, Roskilde University

Emile Chabal, University of Edinburgh

Samantha Lawler, University of Regina and Aaron Boley, University of British Columbia

Ziyad Al-Aly, Washington University in St. Louis

Scott Lucas, University College Dublin

Anthony Wanis-St John, American University School of International Service and Federico Manfredi Firmian, American University School of International Service

Alexander Howard, University of Sydney

Paul Whiteley, University of Essex

Misheck Mutize, University of Cape Town

Adrino Mazenda, University of Pretoria

Paolo Pozzilli, Queen Mary University of London

John Calabrese, American University

James Dwyer, University of Tasmania

Artur Nadiiev, University of Nottingham

Cathy Wilcock, University of Manchester

Harsh Trivedi, University of Sheffield

Peter Londey, Australian National University

Tries Blandine Razak, IPB University

Sahar Bakr, Nottingham Trent University

Robert Munn, University of Otago

Margaret Murray, Swinburne University of Technology

David Hone, Queen Mary University of London

Cassandra Steer, Australian National University

Marta Khomyn, Adelaide University

Luke Hartigan, University of Sydney

Gemma Ware, The Conversation