Robert Wozniak earned his BA in Political Science from the University of Chicago, where he also conducted graduate work in History, as well as graduate work in Balkan Studies at the University of Indiana on a USIA training assignment. Wozniak also studied Greek, French, and Arabic language studies at the Foreign Service Institute. With extensive experience conducting operations at the U.S Information Agency and as a private sector journalist, Wozniak specializes in foreign affairs and public information management. From 1992 to 1996, Wozniak served as the International Negotiations Senior Advisor for USIA’s Voice of America. Prior to that, Wozniak served as Counselor for Public Affairs at the American Embassy in Rabat, Deputy Director for USIA Press and Publications Division, Counselor for Public Affairs at the American Embassy in Athens, the Counselor for Public Affairs for the U.S Mission to NATO in Brussels, and the Public Affairs Officer for the American Embassy in Damascus. As a journalist, Wozniak worked as a general assignment reporter for the Associated Press Detroit Bureau.

Joseph V. Montville founded the Preventive Diplomacy Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. in 1994 and directed it until 2003. Before that he spent 23 years as a diplomat with posts in the Middle East and North Africa. He also worked in the State Department's Bureaus of Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs and Intelligence and Research, where he was chief of the Near East Division and director of the Office of Global Issues. During the past fifteen years, Montville has been developing and writing on cultural diversity and ethnic conflict resolution theory and practice. His field work has included South Africa, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Northern Ireland, Russia, the Baltic countries, Romania, Hungary, Cyprus and Turkey. Montville is widely recognized for having coined the term and developed the concept of "track two diplomacy," to describe unofficial informal interaction among representatives of groups in conflict usually with the help of a trusted third party designed to elicit steps toward resolution of conflict. A founding member of the International Society of Political Psychology, Montville is author/editor of Conflict and Peacemaking in Multiethnic Societies (Lexington 1989) and co-editor (with Vamik Volkan and Demetrios Julius) of The Psychodynamics of International Relationships (Lexington Books, 1990 [vol. I], 1991 [vol. II]). Montville has a non-residence faculty appointment as Lecturer on Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School, and he is also a member of the faculty of the Center for the Study of Mind and Human Interaction at the University of Virginia Medical School.