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An internationally recognized scholar in international politics and held academic teaching appointments in prestigious schools of international affairs, viz.,

• School of International Service,
• American University, Washington DC (1996-2001); the Department of Political Science,
• Australian National University (1994-96); and the Elliot School of International Affairs,
• George Washington University (2002). 

Dr. Salla was a Researcher in Residence, Center for Global Peace, American University 2001-2004.

He is the author/co-editor of five books and over seventy articles/book reviews on peace and conflict in international politics.

Dr Salla is the founder of the popular website, Exopolitics.Org, that includes a number of his referenced papers on the political implications of the extraterrestrial presence. His research on exopolitics was published as a book (his fifth) with the title Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004).

He has a PhD in Government from the University of Queensland and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

During his professional academic career, he was best known for organizing a series of citizen diplomacy initiatives for the East Timor conflict that received large financial grants from the United States Institute of Peace and the Ford Foundation.

For more biographical information click here. Dr. Salla’s former academic website has more information on his teaching credentials and past courses at: http://www.american.edu/salla/ .

He is President and Founder of the Exopolitics Institute and chief editor of the Exopolitics Journal.

His main website is Exopolitics.Org.

Manuel has a long history of being a pioneer in his fields of activity. His PhD research, e.g., focused on Artificial Intelligence in Law, and already integrated Machine Learning, Faceted Search, Multidimensional Knowledge Modeling – all of which would become mainstream 25 years later. In 1994, he retired as a lawyer and academic researcher to start one of the first Internet consulting agencies, which he still runs.

After doing a course in regression therapy in 1994, he began to investigate abduction and contact cases. He also started sharing information with other researchers and regression therapists on an informal basis, and centralized that information in a database, the Hyperbase. While it started as a database for people who work with abductees, this project has over the years crystallized into a valuable asset for exopolitical research, as well. Since 2008, the Hyperbase was succeeded by the Exopaedia (www.exopaedia.org).

Manuel is Editor in Chief of JAR Magazine (www.jar-magazine.com), Coordinator of Exopolitics South Africa, represents Exopolitics South Africa in the Exopolitics Institute, the Exopolitics World Network, as well as in Glexo (www.glexo.org), the Global Exopolitics Organization, of which he is one of the founders.

Manuel lectures two courses:

• Exo101, Introduction to Exopolitics
  
• Exo102, Citizen Diplomacy with Extraterrestrial Civilizations
  

An Italo-American photojournalist and investigative reporter in the field of extraterrestrial related phenomena research.

Paola has studied extraterrestrial related phenomena since 1979 and is on personal terms with many of the leading researchers in the field.

From 1980-1986 she assisted Dr. J. Allen Hynek with his UFO investigations and has interviewed many top military witnesses concerning their involvement in the government truth embargo.

In 1997, Ms. Harris met and interviewed Col. Philip Corso in Roswell, New Mexico and became a personal friend and confidante. She was instrumental in having his book The Day After Roswell, for which she wrote the preface, translated into Italian. She returned to Roswell in the summer of 2003 for the American debut of her book, Connecting the Dots…making sense of the UFO Phenomena (Granite Press).

Paola has consulted with many researchers about the best avenues for planetary disclosure with emphasis on the “big picture” and stressing the historical connection. She is a close friend of Monsignore Padre Corrado Balducci and assisted in filming the Italian witnesses, including the Monsignore, for the Disclosure Project for the May 9, 2001 press conference. She was instrumental in bringing to Italy Robert Dean, Dr. Steven Greer, Linda Moulton Howe, Dr. Richard Boylan, Russell Targ, Travis Walton, Derrell Sims, Helmut Lamner, Michael Lindemann, Nick Pope, Bill Hamilton, Carlos Diaz and Dr. John Mack. Her new non-profit association, Starworks Italia, will continue to bring speakers to Italy and promote disclosure and exo-political dialogue world-wide. She has been a speaker on many radio shows and conferences in Italy, San Marino, Belgium and Germany, and has appeared many times on Italian TV. She has written for Nexus, UFO Magazine, Notizario UFO and Dossier Alieni, among others publications. Based out of Rome, Paola Harris, has taught high school English for thirty years and has a Masters Degree in Multi-disciplinary Curriculum from Leslie college in Boston. She teaches two courses. Key Whistleblowers and Contactees: Best Evidence, & Developing the Road to Disclosure – Quantum Cosmology.

Her principal websites are: www.paolaharris.it & http://www.exopolitics-italy.it/.