Cyril Obi is a Senior Researcher, and Leader, Research Cluster on Conflict, Displacement and Transformation at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden. He has been on leave since 2005 from the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA), Lagos, where is an Associate Research Professor. In 2004, Dr Obi became the second Claude Ake Visiting Professor at the University of Uppsala. He had earlier received international recognition/awards: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Governance Institute Fellow in 1993; Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar 1994; SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Visiting Fellow in 1996; Visiting Fellow to the Africa Studies Centre (ASC), Leiden; and Visiting Fellow and Senior Research Associate, St. Antony's College, Oxford University in 2000. In 2001, he was a Fellow of the 21st Century Trust, Conference on 'Rethinking Security for the 21st Century, also held at Oxford. He is a contributing editor to the Review of African Political Economy, and is on the editorial board of African Journal of International Affairs, the African Security Review, and the Review of Leadership in Africa. Dr Obi has been a guest editor of journals such as African and Asian Studies, and African Journal of International Affairs. His most recent book co-edited with Fantu Cheru, is titled: The Rise of China and India in Africa (published by Zed, 2010). Siri Aas Rustad is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute Oslo. In her research she mainly focuses on Post-conflict natural resource management, with a particular focus on Nigeria. Other research interests include natural resources role in conflict and the geography of conflict.