PhD in political science from the University Monstequieu Bordeaux IV / IEP of Bordeaux, David Ambrosetti is a senior fellow at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS, France), based at the University of Paris X Nanterre. Former postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for International Studies and Research at the University of Montreal (CERIUM), he is also a research associate at the Centre for Study of Black Africa (CEAN, IEP Bordeaux) and research assistant in Network studies in International Politics (REPI) at the University Libre of Brussels, about the Pole Bernheim for Peace Studies and Citizenship. His doctoral research concerned the decision-making within the Security Council of the UN in regard of the armed conflict in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, in terms of constraints weighing on the media image of the UN. He is currently doing research on the UN action in Sudan.
Francois Audet is the Executive Director of the Canadian Research Institute on Humanitarian Crisis and Aid (OCCAH) and has over fifteen years experience in humanitarian action. He was previously Head of the Regional Delegation of East Africa and the Indian Ocean for the Canadian Red Cross and he also served as program Director for CARE Canada. He has participated in over hundred humanitarian and technical support in Haiti, Colombia, Somalia and the Darfur region. He also worked several years in Latin America and Southeast Asia on behalf of the Canadian Centre for International Study and Cooperation, where he served as chief humanitarian aid projects in Honduras and Vietnam. He holds a master’s degree in environmental science, he is currently a PhD candidate in political science at UQAM where he is associate researcher at the Canada Research Chair in Canadian Foreign and Defence Policy (PEDC), and explores the issues of effectiveness of the humanitarian aid.
David Morin is deputy director of the Francophone Research Network on Peace Operations (ROP) since 2008. He is also a professor at the School of Applied Politics of the University of Sherbrooke, lecturer for the Centre Pearson Peacekeeping since 2004 as well as scientific and administrative coordinator of research projects at the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies and Security (CEPES) at the University of Quebec in Montreal since 2003. His research focuses on international security, peacekeeping, and the foreign policy of France and Canada. Dr. Morin has previously served as case officer in the international relations office of the Staff of the Army in Paris, then political advisor to the commanding General of multinational Brigade North in Kosovo in 2001. He received his Ph.D. in political science and international relations from the University of Quebec at Montreal and the University of Social Sciences of Toulouse.