Annie Bunting is a professor in the law and society program at York University, teaching in the areas of social justice and human rights. She is coeditor of Marriage by Force? Contestation over Consent and Coercion in Africa and Contemporary Slavery: The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns.

Allen Kiconco is the author of Gender, Conflict, and Reintegration in Uganda: Abducted Girls, Returning Women. She works on the lived experiences of women and girls in both conflict and postconflict settings of Africa, including abduction, captivity, sexual slavery, forced marriage, and forced pregnancy.

Joel Quirk is a professor of politics at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author or coeditor of seven books and special journal issues and is a founding editor of Open Democracy's Beyond Trafficking and Slavery. His work focuses on enslavement and abolition, work and mobility, social movements, gender and violence, historical repair, and the history and politics of Africa.