Richard Cincotta, Consulting Demographer, Long Range Analysis Unit, National Intelligence Council, Washington DC.

Jack Goldstone, Hazel Professor and Director of the Center for Global Policy, George Mason University; Scholar, Mercatus Center.

Elliot Green, LSE Fellow, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics.

Mark Haas, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duquesne University.

Eric Kaufmann, Reader in Politics & Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London; Fellow, Religion in International Affairs Program, Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard.

Elizabeth Leahy, Research Associate, Population Action International, Washington DC.

Christian Leuprecht, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Royal Military College of Canada.

Ragnhild Nordas, 2008–2009 International Security Program Predoctoral Fellow, Initiative on Religion in International Affairs; Researcher, Centre for the Study of Civil War, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo; and Ph.D. candidate, Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Jennifer Sciubba, Mellon Environmental Fellow, Department of International Studies, Rhodes College.

Vegard Skirbekk, Research Scholar, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis).

Monica Duffy Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University.

Henrik Urdal, Researcher, Centre for the Study of Civil War, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO).