Felicity Arbuthnot
Felicity Arbuthnot is a print and broadcast journalist specialising in social and environmental issues, with expert knowledge of the Middle East. She was Senior researcher, with former UN Under Secretary General, and former UN Co-ordinator in Iraq, Denis Halliday for John Pilger's Award winning documentary: 'Paying the Price - Killing the Children of Iraq.' More recently she was sole researcher for a Radio Telefis Eireann (RTE) documentary, which - filmed in Baghdad - traced Halliday's voyage of conscience from 34 years dedicated service to the UN, to becoming its most outspoken critic.

Arbuthnot has visited Iraq 24 times since the Gulf war, a country she describes as having watched slide from 'the impossible to the apocalyptic.' For her coverage of Iraq she has been nominated for a number of Awards, including the (EC) Lorenzo Natali Award for Human Rights Journalism, the Courage of Conscience Award and the Millenium Award for Women. She is on the Executive Committe of M.P. George Galloway's Great Britain-Iraq Society and Mariam Appeal (named after Mariam Hamza, the Iraqi child stricken with cancer who he brought to the UK for treatment.) She is also on the Committee of M.P. Alice Mahon's 'Bridge to the Balkans.'



Denis Halliday
Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Denis J. Halliday, a national of Ireland, to the post of United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Iraq as of 1 September 1997, at the Assistant Secretary-General level, and he served as such until end September 1998. During this period, the Security Council Resolution 986 "Oil for Food" Programme, introduced in 1996/97 to assist the people of Iraq under the Economic Sanctions imposed and sustained by the Security Council, was more than doubled in terms of oil revenues allowed. This enabled the introduction of a multi-sectoral approach, albeit modest, to the problems of resolving malnutrition and child mortality. Mr Halliday resigned from the post in Iraq and from the United Nations as a whole effective 31 October 1998 after serving the Organisation since mid 1964 - some 34 years.

Prior to that, and from mid 1994, Mr Halliday served as Assistant Secretary-General for Human Resources Management of the United Nations, based in its New York Headquarters. During this period, he introduced on behalf of the Secretary-General to the General Assembly a strategy for the better management, performance and development of some 15,000 United Nations staff world-wide.

Before taking up the Human Resources Management function in mid 1994, following a brief assignment in Thailand as UNDP Regional Representative, Mr Halliday had been Director, Division of Personnel, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) from late 1989 into early 1994. He took over that post after being Chef de Cabinet, Office of the Administrator, of the UNDP for some two years.

Mr Halliday has spent most of his long career with the United Nations in development and humanitarian assistance-related posts both in New York and overseas, primarily in South-East Asia. Following a year in Kenya as a Quaker volunteer 1962-63, Mr Halliday joined the United Nations in 1964 serving in Teheran, Iran as a junior professional officer in the forerunner of UNDP - the United Nations Technical Assistance Board and Special Fund. From 1966 to 1972, he served in the Asia Bureau of UNDP Headquarters in New York and then transferred to Malaysia in 1972. In Malaysia, covering programmes in that country plus Singapore and Brunei, he served until 1877 as Deputy Regional Representative. In Indonesia, he continued at the Deputy level for two years until 1979, when he was asked to reopen and head up as Resident Representative the UNDP office in Samoa covering that country, the Cook Islands, the Tokelau Islands and Niue in the South Pacific.

In 1981, Mr Halliday was asked to return to New York to serve in the Asia and Pacific Bureau where he was involved in setting up the first round table meetings of UNDP for Asia. In 1985, he took up the post of Deputy Director, Division of Personnel before becoming Chef de Cabinet in 1987.



Dr. Richard Garfield
DrPH, Columbia University School of Public Health, New York
MS, Columbia University School of Public Health, New York
MPH, Columbia University School of Public Health, New York
BA, Beacon College, Washington, DC
AD, Nursing, Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia

Richard Garfield is a Professor of Nursing and Coordinator of a WHO/PAHO Nursing Collaborating Center at Columbia University, Visiting Professor at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and member of the governing council of American Public Health Association. He combines qualitative perspective of community health promotion and the quantitative skills of epidemiology to assess morbidity and mortality changes among civilian groups in humanitarian crises around the world. He has assessed the impact of economic embargoes in Cuba, Haiti, Yugoslavia, Iraq, and Liberia for national governments and/or UN organizations. He has visited Iraq 3 times in recent years to collaborate with UNICEF, the World Food Program, and the Iraqi Ministry of Health. He has evaluated the quality of mortality studies and created independent estimates of mortality changes, evaluated the overall humanitarian impact of the Oil for Food program, participated in research on income and living standards in northern Iraq, pioneered an joint analysis of 45 studies of nutritional status during the 1990s, and assisted in medium term planning for social sector assistance.



Dr. Peter Pellett
Dr Peter L. Pellett is an American citizen who is an Emiretus professeur of Nutrition at the University of Masachussettes, Amherst. Dr. Pellet attended the University of London and London school of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Dr. Pellet has a BSC in Chemistry with first class honors and a Ph.D. in Nutrition. He served at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for two years. Some of Dr. Pellet’s consultancies include the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), United States Department of Agriculture, United States Agency for International Development, World Food Programme (WFP), National Academy of Sciences, Washington (RDA Committee), and the Institute of Medicine, (Micronutrient Deficiencies). Dr. Pellet is the Editor-in Chief: Ecology of Food and Nutrition and Assistant Editor, Food and Nutrition Bulletin, UNU. Dr. Pellet is a Board Member, International Nutrition Foundation for Developing Countries, Cambridge, Massachusetts. So me of his selected international activities include his International Consultancies on behalf of FAO, WHO, UNICEF, USAID, and USDA have been undertaken in Egypt, Sierre Leone, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Somalia, Yemen, Jordan, Libya, Iraq, Bahrain, and Kuwait.

Some selected more recent consultancies and other visits include:

• Technical Consultation on Traditional Foods in the Near East. Amman, Jordan. (FAO) September 1989
  
• Nutrition and the Environment: preparation of position paper for FAO in Rome. (FAO Aug 1990)
  
• Evaluation of World Food Programme in Malawi on "Nutrition in vulnerable groups". (WFP March 1991)
  
• Protein-Energy relationships: presentation for the International Dietary-Energy Consultancy group. New Hampshire, (UNU October 1991).
  
• Nutrition Programme Inititiative Kuwait. Preparation of programmes for Nutrition Survey and Surveillance in Kuwait. Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR: May and October 1992).
  
• Evaluation of Nutrition and Child Development Programmes in Five Agricultural Universities in India (UNDP/FAO May-June 1993)
  
• Food and Nutrition in Iraq. FAO, November, 1993
  
• Nutrition and Chronic Disease in the Near East, Al-Ayn, UAE April 1994
  
• Nutrition and Food Science, Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 1994
  
• Food and Nutrition in Iraq, FAO/WFP, August 1995
  
• National Nutritional Policy. The Sultanate of Oman, September 1996.
  
• Nutrition Symposium, American University of Beirut, May 1997. Presentations on "The Determinants of Malnutrition" and "Protein Requirements of Infants and Children"
  
• FAO/WFP Consultancy June-July 1997, Iraq and Rome.
  
• ICARDA Workshop, Aleppo, Syria. Animal Foods in Human Nutrition Nov. 1997
  
• FAO/WFP/WHO Consultancy May-June 2000, Iraq and Rome, Italy.
  
• UNU Lysine Fortification Study, ICARDA, Aleppo, Syria, June 2001
  
• FAO Proteins in Human Nutrition Expert Consultation Rome, Italy, July 2001.
  

PUBLICATIONS:

Some 180 publications, including books, book chapters, reports, journal articles and reviews in the major areas of human protein and amino acid requirements, nutrition and development, and the determinants of nutritional status.

Selected Recent Publications

Young, V.R. and P.L. Pellett 1994 Plant proteins in relation to human protein and amino acid nutrition. Am J. Clin. Nutr. 59 (5S) 1203S-1212S May Supplement 1994.

Pellett, P.L. 1995. Editor (with A.O. Musaiger) Proceedings of the Workshop on Nutrition
Chronic Diseases in the Arab Middle East Countries April 10-12 1994. Special Issue Emirates Journal of Agricultural Sciences. Pages 1-245. Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, United Arab Emirates University.

Pellett, P.L. 1995. Nutrition as a risk factor for chronic diseases: lessons from the United States.
Pages 36-85 in P.L. Pellett and A.O. Musaiger eds. Proceedings of the Workshop on Nutrition and Chronic Diseases in the Arab Middle East Countries April 10-12 1994. Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, United Arab Emirates University.

Pellett, P.L. 1995. Chair. Dietary Guidelines for the Prevention and Reduction of Diet Related Chronic Diseases in the Arab Middle East Countries. Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, United Arab Emirates University. Proceedings Supplement Pages 1-6

Pellett, P.L. 1995. Series Editor (with H.V. Kuhnlein and C.S. Wilson). Culture and Ecology of Food and Nutrition Book Series.Vol 1 Social Aspects of Obesity. Igor de Garine and Nancy J. Pollock Eds. Gordon and Breach Publishers 314 pages.

Pellett, P.L. A Food and Nutrition Policy for Oman. WHO Oman 1996

Pellett, P.L. 1996. World Essential Amino Acid Supply with Special Attention to South-East Asia. Food Nutr. Bull. 17(3) 204-234.

McLarney, M.J., P.L. Pellett and V.R. Young 1996. Amino Acid Requirements in Humans:an Interspecies comparison using published amino acid requirement recommendations. J. Nutr. 126: 1871-1882 1996.

Young, V.R., N.S. Scrimshaw and P. L. Pellett. 1997. Significance of Dietary Protein Source in

Human Nutrition: Animal or Plant Proteins? Rank-Royal Society Symposium: Feeding 8 Billion People. In press.

Meredith, C.N. and Pellett, P.L. 1997. Nutrition - Protein. Encyclopedia of Human Biology, Second Edition Pages 8685-8691

Paoletti, M.G., S.G.F. Bukkens and P.L. Pellett Eds. 1997. Minilivestock: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Biodiversity in Agriculture. Theme 4. Minilivestock: sustainable use of biodiversity for Human Food. Ecology of Food and Nutrition Special Issue: 36: (2-4), 95-346.

Pellett, P.L. 1997. Situacion nutricional en Irak: conclusiones del Informe FAO pages 98-110 in "Guerra y sanciones a Irak" (ISBN 84-8319-011-7) by Carlos Varea and Angeles Maestro (Eds).

Pellett, P.L. et al. 1997. GIEWS (Global Information and Early Warning System) Report. "Special Report: FAO/WFP Food Supply and Nutrition Assessment Mission to Iraq" Available on the World Wide Web: .

Pellett, P.L. et al. 1997. Evaluation of the Food and Nutrition Situation in Iraq. Technical Report prepared for the Government of Iraq by FAO. Technical Cooperation Programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 64 pages. TCP/IRQ/6713. FAO, Rome, Italy. 1997-1998.

Pellett, P.L. 1998. Editorial: Nutrition and Health in Iraq. International Quarterly of Community Health Education, Vol 17(2) 109-115.

Pellett, P.L. 1998. Food, Nutrition and Health in Iraq in "World Alliance on Nutrition and Human Rights" M.L. Latham and Carolyn Campbell, Bulletin World Alliance for Nutrition and Human Rights No. 7 35-50

Pellett, P.L. 1998. Editorial: Nutrition and Health in Iraq. International Quarterly of Community Health Education, Vol 17(2) 109-115.

Young, V.R., Scrimshaw, N.S. and Pellett, P.L. 1998. Significance of Dietary protein Source in Human Nutrition: Animal or Plant proteins?.. Chapter 15, Pages 205-222 in "Feeding a World Population of more than Eight Billion People: A challenge to Science". J.C. Waterlow, D.G. Armstrong, L. Fowden and R. Riley Eds. Oxford University Press and Rank Prize Funds, New York and Oxford.

Pellett, P.L. 1998. Conditions inside Iraq. Middle East Institute Newsletter, 45(5) 3,9.

Pellett, P.L. and S. Ghosh 1999. "Global Nutritional Problems with Special Attention to the Role of Animal Foods in Human Nutrition". Pages 25-45 in Thompson E.F., von Kaufman R. Li Pun H., Treacher, T. and van Houten H, Editors. "Global Agenda for Livestock Research. Proceedings of a Consultation on Setting Livestock Research Priorities in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) Region". International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, Aleppo, Syria, November 1997. ILRI (International Livestock Research Institute), Nairobi, Kenya.

Pellett, P.L. 2000. "Energy and Protein Metabolism" Pages 888-913 in "The Cambridge World History of Food", K.F. Kiple and K.C. Ornelas, Editors. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K. 2000.

Pellett, P.L. and Shibani Ghosh, 1999. Hunger, Food Deprivation and Nutritional Disorders, in "The Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology", 2nd Edition, Wiley, New York, November 1999.

Ghosh, S and Pellett, P.L., 1999. Food Abundance and Nutritional Disorders, in "The Wiley Encyclopedia of Food Science and Technology", 2nd Edition, Wiley, New York, November 1999.

Pellett, P.L. 1999. Commentary: A Human Rights Approach to Food and Nutrition Policies and Programmes. Pages 84-86 in ACC/SCN (1999). The United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination - Sub-Committee on Nutrition. SCN News, Vol. 18. ACC/SCN, c/o World Health Organization, Geneva.

Pellett, P.L. 2000. Sanctions, Food, Nutrition and Health in Iraq. Chapter 12: pages 151-168 in "Iraq under Seige", Anthony Arnove Editor, South End Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Pluto Press, London.

Pellett, P.L. 2000. Food Composition, Nutritional Status and Middle-Eastern Diets. Pages 139-155 in "Proceedings of the Third Saudi Symposium on Food and Nutrition", Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. College of Agriculture, King Saud University. November 1998.

Pellett, P.L. and Shibani Ghosh, 2000. Health Aspects of Middle-Eastern Diets. Pages 157-180 in "Proceedings of the Third Saudi Sympoium on Food and Nutrition", Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. College of Agriculture, King Saud University. November 1998.

Pellett, P.L. et al. 2000 Report: United Nations, Food and Agriculture Organization. Evaluation of the Food and Nutrition Situation in Iraq. Technical Report TCP/IRQ/8924, FAO, Rome 2000.



Dr. Thomas Nagy
Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health, 1977-1979.
Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley, 1975-1977.
Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1974

Member, International Association of Genocide Scholars
Faculty Sponsor, George Washington University School of the Americas Watch.

Professional:

Current: Associate Prof. of Expert Systems, School of Business & Public Management, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Past: Computer Consultant to several cabinet level U.S. government agencies Research Director, American Bar Association

Books: (co-authored or coeditor)

• Predictive Sentencing.
  
• Application of Social Sciences to Health
  
• Building Your First Expert System
  
• Lots and lots of journal articles and presentations.
  

Statement regarding Interest in Iraq:
My horror of the decade of on-going U.S. economic sanctions against Iraq is the direct result of living the first five years of my life as a refugee and displaced person in the aftermath of World War II coupled with the shock of discovering that like all empires, the U.S. employs routine, serial genocide as a tool for deriving maximum profit from its policy of neocolonialism. I feel compelled as a professor with a background in public health, ensconced in the ivory tower of a school of business virtually boarding the White House, the State Dept. and the Pentagon to speak and write in opposition to the inhuman policy destroying the children of Iraq and debasing the integrity and even the viability of the people of the United States.

As I said at the Faculty Senate, I fear that we academics are increasing guilty of acting far more as "Good Germans" supporting their government by passive silence or active participation than as the rescuers of innocent children in the present era of U.S. genocide by force of arms which is dwarfed in scale by American genocide by the mega weapon of mass destruction known as economic sanctions.

Since writing "The Secret Behind the Sanctions: How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply," I have done ten radio interviews and have spoken in New York and throughout Ireland on the Dept. of Defense, Congressional and UN documents which show that in violation of Article 54 of the Geneva Convention, the U.S. continues to kill huge numbers of children by preventing the rehabilitation of Iraq's water system.

I have come to view information systems and computer Science as disciplines which provide increasingly efficient tools for killing people and jobs. I feel that this dismal state of affairs is not inevitable and direct much of my research into the use of computers to build social capital and to persuade people to resist the electronic addiction and debasement of TV and the stultifying aspects of the Internet. The stakes could not be higher, not merely for the victims of the West, but also for the people of the West, particularly the current generation of students.