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Lester KurtzProfessor Lester Kurtz
University of Texas at Austin

Professor Lester Kurtz is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin where he teaches peace and conflict studies, comparative sociology of religion, and both western and non-western social theory. He was previously director of Religious Studies at Texas and holds a Master’s in Religion from Yale Divinity School and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago. He is the editor of the first edition of Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace and Conflict (Academic Press), co-editor of Non-violent Social Movements (Blackwell’s), and The Web of Violence (University of Illinois Press) as well as author of books and articles including Gods in the Global Village (Pine Forge/Sage), The Politics of Heresy (University of California Press), and The Nuclear Cage (Prentice-Hall). He has lectured in Europe, Asia, Africa, and North America and is the past chair of the Peace Studies Association as well as the Peace and War Section of the American Sociological Association, which recently awarded him its Robin Williams Distinguished Career Award.

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Joyce Blackwell-JohnsonJoyce Blackwell-Johnson
Saint Augustine’s College

Joyce Blackwell-Johnson is the chair of the history department at Saint Augustine’s College in Raleigh, North Carolina and secretary of the Peace History Society of the American Historical Society. She is author of No Peace Without Freedom: Race and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, 1915–1975 (Blackwell, 2004) explores how black women, fueled by the desire to eradicate racial injustice, compelled the white leadership of the WILPF to revisit its own conceptions of peace and freedom. 

Barbara H. ChasinProfessor Barbara H. Chasin
Montclair State University

Professor Barbara H. Chasin is professor of sociology at Montclair State University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Iowa (1968). She is the author of Inequality and Violence in the United States: Casualties of Capitalism. The second edition received the Best Book Award for 2004 from the Marxist Section of the American Sociological Association. She has authored numerous articles and is the coauthor, with Richard W. Franke of Kerala: Radical Reform as Development in an Indian State (1994), and Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel (1980). She also co-authored Power and Ideology: A Marxist Approach to Political Sociology (1974). 

Ann CokerDr. Ann Coker
University of Kentucky

Dr. Ann Coker is a full professor and endowed chair in the University of Kentucky's Center for Research on Violence Against Women. She is trained as an epidemiologist and has been conducting research in the field of partner violence prevention for the past 15 years. 

Douglas P. FryDouglas P. Fry
Åbo Akademi University  and University of Arizona

Douglas P. Fry received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Indiana University in 1986 based on a combined ethological and ethnological field study of aggression among the Zapotec people of Oaxaca, Mexico. Fry holds the titles professor and docent in the Developmental Psychology Program at Åbo Akademi University in Finland and is an adjunct research scientist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Fry has written on aggression, conflict, and conflict resolution from various theoretical perspectives. His articles have been published in journals such as the American Anthropologist, Aggressive Behavior, Child Development, Human Organization, and Sex Roles.

Lois Ann LorentzenLois Ann Lorentzen
Associate Director of the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas

Lois Ann Lorentzen is Professor of Social Ethics, Associate Director of the Center for Latino Studies in the Americas (CELASA), and serves as Principal Investigator for the Religion and Immigration Project (TRIP) funded by the Pew Charitable Trust. Her publications include La Etica y el Medio Ambiente and the co-edited volumes, Religions/Globalization: Theories and Cases; The Women and War Reader; Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity and the Americas; and The Gendered New World Order: Militarism, Environment, Development.

Alfred McAlisterAlfred McAlister
University of Texas

Alfred McAlister is Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health, and holds a Ph.D. in Applied Behaviour Sciences from Stanford University. He is leading the application of behavioural science experimental community studies to evaluate the effect of health promotion campaigns in Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, border areas, in thirteen U.S. cities, and in Finland, China, and Kazakhstan. Dr. McAlister has taught at Harvard University and is on the steering committee of the World Health Organization’s Interhealth Demonstrated Projects. He is editorial consultant for the American Journal of Public Health, Border Health, Evaluation Quarterly, Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Preventive Medicine, and the Psychological Bulletin. 

Jan ObergDr Jan Oberg

Dr Jan Oberg — Born 1951, Danish, PhD in sociology, peace and future researcher. Former director of the Lund University Peace Research Institute (LUPRI); former secretary-general of the Danish Peace Foundation; former member of the Danish government's Committee on security and disarmament. Visiting professor at ICU and Chuo Universities in Japan and visiting professor for three months at Nagoya University in 2004. Dr.Oberg is a member of the Scientific Committee of International University for Peoples' Initiatives for Peace, IUPIP, in Italy. Co-initiator of the Danish Highschool for Peace and the Danish Centre for Conflict Resolution. Member of the advisory board of the Toda Institute, Hawaii, and of the Tibetan Centre for Conflict Resolution in Dharamsala, India. Editorial advisor to Peace Review. A Journal of Social Justice.

Mitsuo OkamotoMitsuo Okamoto
Hiroshima Shudo University

Mitsuo Okamoto, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Hiroshima Shudo University was born in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo, Japan. He has obtained Ph.D. in Peace Studies from Kyoto University. He studied also in Tokyo, Philadelphia in the USA, and Heidelberg in Germany. He is author of many books and articles in Japanese, English and German, most of them in the area of Peace Studies. He is currently Member of the Science Council of Japan, Director of its Committee for Peace Research, President of the Non-Profit Organization: Hiroshima-Nagasaki Photo Exhibition of Radiation Victims, President of Article Nine Society Hiroshima, President of the Hiroshima Alliance for Nuclear Weapons Abolition (HANWA), and has served as President of the Peace Studies Association of Japan.

Daniel RitterDaniel Ritter
University of Texas

Daniel Ritter is graduate student in the department of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.A. in Philosophy and English from the University of Charleston in 2002. His master's degree is in Rhetoric and Philosophy of Communication from Duquesne University, and was obtained in 2004. Recent publications include "Interpersonal dialogue and ethical action: A Gandhian approach to communication" in Ahimsa Nonviolence and "Moving forward, looking back: The specialist/generalist model as disciplinary guide for the 21st century" (co-authored) in Communication Annual.

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