Lily Hamourtziadou is Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, the UK. She served as principal researcher and analyst of the NGO Iraq Body Count (2006-2025) and was twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She is a member of the West Midlands Military Education Committee and a member of the Counter Terrorism Evidence-Based Review Group. She has worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a Middle East reports writer, and she is the author of three books: Body Count: The War on Terror and Civilian Deaths in Iraq (2020), The Ethics of Remote Warfare (2024), and Human Costs of War (2024).

Przemys¿aw ¿ukasik is Assistant Professor at Institute of Journalism and International Relations, National Education Commission University, Kraków, Poland. He has been a visiting fellow in the 'Scholar in Residence' programme of the Goethe-Institute and the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities in Essen, Germany. He had been also editorial secretary (2011-2015) of the English-language historical scientific journal Remembrance and Solidarity: Studies in 20th Century European History, published by the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity.