Dr Wendy Pullan is Senior Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Architecture and Director of the Martin Centre in the Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on meaning and change within urban conditions, both historical and contemporary. She lived in Jerusalem for thirteen years and has published widely on Mediterranean and Middle Eastern architecture and cities. Dr Pullan is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

As Director of the Centre for Spatial Territorial Analysis and Research and Co-Director of the Centre for International Borders Research, both based in Queen’s University Belfast, James Anderson has had extensive experience of working on divided cities. He has had many years of working on Belfast and on political border and on spatial and territorial issues in national conflicts; he has published widely on these issues.

Mick Dumper specialises in Middle Eastern politics with extensive contacts to the Palestinian research community and other Middle East academics and policy-makers. He has been advisor to the FCO and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on Jerusalem. Dumper is an expert on the Islamic waqf in Jerusalem and has published important studies on the city since 1967 and the contestation of its sacred sites.

Dr. Haim Yacobi is an architect, planner and a lecturer at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University. His academic work focuses on the urban as a political, social and cultural entity. The main issues that stand in the center of his academic publications are the politics of the city, social justice, the politics of identity, migration, globalization and urban planning. In 1999 he co-founded BIMKOM, an NGO that supports planning rights of disadvantaged communities in Israel. He has worked on a number of Middle Eastern research projects and often collaborates with Palestinian academics.

Rami Nasrallah is Director of the International Peace and Reconciliation Centre, a Palestinian NGO for research on Jerusalem and he is consultant on Jerusalem to the Palestinian Prime Minister. With a background in politics and policy, he is an advisor and partner to many international groups who focus on the Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations and reconciliation, and he regularly works with Israeli academics and peace activists.

Philipp Misselwitz worked with 'Conflict in Cities' in 2003-04. Philipp is a practising architect with teaching and research experience in Germany, the UK and Israel/Palestine. He directed the Grenzgeografien Jerusalem studio, a trilateral workshop of Israeli, Palestinian and German students, and organised the international conference, ‘Cities of Collision? at the Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem. He is currently directing a research project on the rehabilitation of Palestinian Refugee Camps on behalf of the UN.

Lefkos Kyriacou is a practising architect who has worked in London and New York on a range of public projects and has also carried out research on Nicosia, the divided capital of Cyprus. He is currently a project architect at Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture in London as well as a research assistant for ‘Conflict in Cities?based in Cambridge.

Israeli and Palestinian field researchers worked together to carry out various types of site investigation. They are students from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Jerusalem), Ben Gurion University (Ber Sheva), Bir Zeit University (Ramallah), and the Technion (Haifa) and come from a variety of disciplines including: architecture, planning, linguistics, and sociology and politics.