CoNTRIBUTORS JOLANTA AMBROSEWICZ-JACOBS is a researcher and lecturer at the Centre for European Studies of the J agiellonian University in Cracow. A native ofVllnius, she holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the Jagiellonian University. She was a Fellow at the Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University (1996), at the Simon Wiesenthal Center in New York ( 1997), and at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (2000-200 1 ). Ms. Ambrosewicz-Jacobs is currently co-chair ofthe working group "Education for Tolerance" of the OSCE/ODIHRAdvisory Panel of Experts on Free­ dom of Religion or Belief. She is a member of the European Consortium for Political Research's Standing Group on Extremism & Democracy and is involved in numerous educational projects that focus on social, ethnic, and religious prejudices, intercultural edu­ cation, and politics of reconciliation. Her areas of research and publications focus on the evaluation ofeffects ofeducation on attitudes, mechanisms ofxenophobia, and intolerance. ABDELFATTAH AMORis Chair of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. He was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief in 199 3. Mr. Amor is currently based at the faculty of juridical, political, and social science at the University ofTunis and has worked as a higher education lecturer since 1979. ARCHBISHOP DR. ANASTASIOS (YANNOULATOS) OF TIRANA AND ALL ALBANIA is Professor emeritus of the University ofAthens and a Corresp. Member of the Academy ofAthens. He studied Theology at the University ofAthens and History of Religions at the Universities of Hamburg and Marburg, Germany, with the Alexander von Rumbold scholarship. Archbishop Anastasios received a B.D. from the University of Athens, highest distinction, a Th.D. from the University of Athens, summa cum laude, a Th.D. (honoris causa) from three Theological Faculties, a Ph.D. (honoris causa) from seven universities, and an M.D. (honoris causa) from the University of Patras. Archbishop Anastasios is an Honorary Member of the Theological Academy ofMoscow. He was a full Professor of History of Religions at the University ofAthens ( 1976-1992) and Dean ofthe Theological Faculty ( 1983-1986 ). He was ordained Bishop ofAndroussa in 1972 for the position of the General Director ofApostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece (until1991) and was acting Archbishop ofEastMrica from 1981-1990. He is Patriarchal Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Albania ( 1991) and Archbishop of Tore Lindholm, W. Cole Durham, Jr., Bahia G. Tahzib-Lie (eds.), Facilitating Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Deskbook, 855-870. © 2004 Koninklijke Brill NTT. 856 • Contributors Albania (since June 1992 ). He was Moderator ofthe Commission ofWorld Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches ( 1984-1991). Archbishop Anastasios is the author ofeleven books, including Islam: A General Survey ( 1976, 11th ed. 2002) and Universality and Orthodoxy (2000, 2002 ). He has published more than 230 essays and articles in various languages. He has been honored with many international awards, such as the Grand Cross of the Order of Honour of the Hellenic Republic ( 1997) and the Athenagoras Human Rights Award ( 2001). Archbishop Anastasios is a leading Ortho­ dox scholar in the field of interreligious dialogue and has struggled as a peacemaker within Albania and the Balkans. EILEEN BARKER is Professor of Sociology with Special Reference to the Study of Religion at the London School of Economics. For over thirty years Prof. Barker has focused her research on "cults," "sects," new religious movements, and the social reac­ tions such movements create. Additionally, since 1989 she has spent much of her time investigating changes in the religious situation ofpost -communist countries. Prof. Barker has produced over 200 publications, including her award -winning books, The Making of aMoonie: Choice or Brainwashing?(Oxford: Blackwell, 1984) and New Religious Move­ ments: A Practical Introduction (London: HMSO, 1989). In the late 1980s, with support from the British Government and mainstream churches, Pro£ Barker founded INFORM, a charity that provides accurate, objective, and up-to-date information on new religions. Prof. Barker is the only non-American to have been elected President ofthe Society for the Scientific Study ofReligion. JEAN BAUBEROT is Professor of History and Sociology of Lai:city and directs the Group of Sociology and Religions and Lalcity. Additionally, Prof. Bauberot is the presi­ dent of the Ecole Pratique de Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, where he teaches. Recently the Academie Frans:aise awarded Prof. Bauberot a prize for his publication «une haine oubliee», l'antiprotestantisme avant le pacte lai"que, (avec Valentine Zuber) (Paris: Albin Michel, 2000). Prof. Bauberot is a Doctor of History and a Doctor of Literature and Social Sciences. LEE BOOTHBY is a Senior Partner at the law firm Boothby & Yingst and is President of the International Commission on Freedom of Conscience. Mr. Boothby also serves as Vice President for the Council on Religious Freedom and is Vice President for the International Academy for Freedom of Religion and Belief. Mr. Boothby has been lead counsel in trials throughout the United States and has argued before the United States Supreme Court on important First Amendment issues. He has consulted with numerous governments in Eastern and Central Europe about church-state relations and interna­ tional religious rights and is the author of numerous law review and magazine articles. KARl ELISABETH B0RRESEN is Professor of Historical Theology/Gender Stud­ ies in the Department of Church History at Oslo University. Prof. B0rresen has worked as a Research Fellow for the Norwegian Research Council and the Department of Systematic Theology at Arhus University and as a Research Professor for the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Culture. Prof. B0rresen was a consultant for the World Coun­ cil of Churches in Geneve, she is a member of the Conseil de !'association internationale Facilitating Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Deskbook • 857 d'etudes patristiques, a member ofseveral advisory boards for university research projects, and the Co-Director of a research project at Upsala University. In 1992 she received a Doctor Theologiae Honoris Causa from Uppsala University. Since 1995 she has been a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Prof. B0rresen has pub­ lished eleven books and numerous articles. She received her Doctor Philosophiae from the University of Oslo, and she has studied abroad in Paris, Poitiers, Heidelberg, Mainz, Oxford, and Rome. H. VICTOR CONDE is Adjunct Professor oflnternational Human Rights and Hu­ manitarian Law and Professor in Residence at the Strasbourg Human Rights Program of Trinity Law School, California. He received an L.L.M. in International Human Rights Law at the University ofEssex, England and a J.D. from the University of California at Davis. Prof. Conde fulfilled a United Nations legal internship and received an M.A. in International Human Rights at Simon GreenleafUniversity, California. He has a Diplome in International and Comparative Human Rights Law from the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France. His specializations include religious freedom and international law, the convergence of international human rights, humanitarian law, and international criminal law, and human rights education. Prof. Conde is author of Human Rights in the United States: A Dictionary and Documents (Santa Barbara, Ca.: ABC-CLIO, 2000) and A Handbook ofInternational Human Rights Terminology (Lincoln, Nebr.: Univ. ofNebraska Press, 1999). He is also a member of Amnesty International USA, the Hu­ man Rights Education Committee (western U.S.), and the Legal Support Network. He is a practicing lawyer admitted in California and Hawaii. OZLEM DENLI works as a Research Fellow of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. Her doctoral project at the intersection ofpolitics and phi­ losophy is titled "Islam and Human Rights: The Public Significance ofLiberal Islamism in Turkey." Ms. Denli was born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1966. She majored in Political Science and Sociology at Bosphorus University in Istanbul, Turkey. Ms. Denli did postgraduate studies at the University of Oslo and received a Cand. Polit. degree in the Department of Political Science of the University of Oslo. Her thesis was titled "Islam and the Freedom of Religion or Belief: Perspectives from Contemporary Turkey." DOUDOU DIENE directs the United Nations' Division oflntercultural Dialogue. Mr. Diene worked as Senegal's representative to UNESCO until1977, when he joined the UNESCO Secretariat as Director of the United Nations' Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization Office. From 1985 until1987, Mr. Diene worked as Deputy Assistant Director-General in the External Relations Sector, as Spokesman for the Director-General, and as Action Director of the Office of Public Information. Mr. Diene directed the task force for the Silk Roads Project until December 1988, at which time he was appointed Director of a project entitled "Integral Study of the Silk Roads: Roads of Dialogue." Within the framework of these Silk Roads projects, Mr. Diene organized several international expeditions to retrace the ancient silk roads in China, Mongolia, and Nepal. He has published a number of articles and has coau­ thored a book. Mr. Diene graduated both from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-Po) and from