Insurgencies and the Role of Refugees: Focus on Afghanistan and the Taliban

Insurgencies and the Role of Refugees: Focus on Afghanistan and the Taliban
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Bruce Hoffman

Bruce Hoffman (Ph.D., International Relations, Oxford University) is vice president for external affairs and director of the Washington office at RAND. One of the world's most respected analysts of terrorism, Hoffman iseditor-in-chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, an academic journal published in the United States and England, and a member of the advisory board of Terrorism and Political Violence. He serves on the advisory board of the International Group for Research and Information on Security, basedin Brussels. He is the author of Inside Terrorism (1998) as well as numerousother books, scholarly articles, reviews and op-ed pieces on terrorism and low-intensity conflict.

At RAND, he served as the director of the Strategy and Doctrine Program in the Arroyo Center from 1993 to 1994, and as associate director of both that program and the International Security and Defense Strategy Program in the National Security Research Division from 1990 to 1993. In 1994, inrecognition of his work as director of the Strategy and Doctrine Program, Hoffman was awarded the US Intelligence Community Seal Medallion, the highest level of commendation given to a non-government employee, on therecommendation of the US Army's Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Formerly, Hoffman was chairman of the Department of International Relations, and director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, at St. Andrews University in Scotland. Hoffman was named the first holder of a Chair in the Study of Violence at the Queen Sophia Center forthe Study of Violence in Valencia, Spain.

Daniel L. Byman

Daniel L. Byman (Ph.D., Political Science, MIT) is a policy analyst at RAND whose research interests include modeling ethnic conflict, assessing Middle East politics and security issues, counterterrorism, reevaluating air power theory, and other general issues related to US foreign policy. He is a co-author of The Emergence of Peer Competitors: A Framework for Analysis (RAND, 2001) and Iran's Security Policy in the Post-Revolutionary Era (RAND, 2001) among other titles.

Peter Chalk

Peter Chalk (Ph.D., Political Science, University of British Columbia, Canada) is a policy analyst at RAND specializing in terrorism, transnational crime, and issues of national, regional and international security. He is co-author of Indonesia's Transformation and the Stability of Southeast Asia (RAND, 2001), and Colombian Labyrinth: The Synergy of Drugs and Insurgency and Its Implications for Regional Stability (RAND, 2001), among other titles.

William Rosenau

William Rosenau (Ph.D. candidate, War Studies Department, King's College, London) is an associate social scientist at RAND whose interests include terrorism and military operations.

David Brannan

David W. Brannan (Masters of Arts, University of St. Andrews, Scotland) is a researcher with RAND whose areas of expertise include terrorism, political activism, and insurgency.

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