Panelists (bios below):

Dr. SUMIT GANGULY, professor of Political Science, Hunter College, City University of New York	PETER WEISS, president, Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
Dr. ZIA MIAN, physicist, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Princeton University	MICHAEL WILLIAMS, assistant foreign editor, The Wall Street Journal
Moderator: Dr. RICHARD D. KLEIN, professor of Law, Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Touro College

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SUMIT GANGULY, is a professor of political science at Hunter College and the City University of New York and is a widely-quoted expert on nuclear issues, regional security and world politics. He is the author of "Understanding Contemporary India," "The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace" and "Mending Fences: Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in South Asia." He has written for a range of academic and popular publications and contributed the section on "The Indo-Pakistani Wars" for Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia. -Top-

ZIA MIAN, a physicist at Princeton University's Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, also teaches at the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs. A frequent writer and commentator on nuclear weapons issues, he is the editor of two books, "Pakistan's Atomic Bomb and the Search for Security" and "Making Enemies, Creating Conflict: Pakistan's Crises of State and Society." He has previously worked at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad and the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi, and taught at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He was born in Lyallpur, Pakistan, and was educated in Britain, receiving his PhD in Physics from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. -Top-

RICHARD KLEIN is a professor of law at Touro Law Center in Long Island. He specializes in criminal and international human rights law and has taught at Touro's Summer Law Program in Shimla, India. He is a former staff attorney for the NYC Legal Aid Society and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Somalia and a State Dept. Foreign Escort Officer. He is a graduate of Harvard Law, Columbia's International Affairs School and the Univ. of Wisconsin. -Top-

PETER WEISS is founder and current president of both IALANA (International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms) and its US affiliate, LCNP (Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy). He was counsel to the Government of Malaysia in the 1995 nuclear weapons case in the World Court. He divides his time 50/50 between practicing "straight" law and pursuing a few minor pro bono projects, including abolishing war and nuclear weapons and implementing the economic and social provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. -Top-

MICHAEL WILLIAMS, Wall Street Journal assistant foreign editor, is responsible for the paper's coverage of South Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. From 1992 to 1996 he was news editor and then economics correspondent in the Journal's Tokyo bureau, and in 1997 was co-winner of an Overseas Press Club Award for a series of articles on the Japanese bureaucracy. Mike graduated from Harvard in 1985 with a degree in history and literature. He is married and has a three-month-old daughter. -Top-

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