Notes on Contributors

Mohammed Abu-Nimer is a professor at the School of International Service at American University. ? He served as Director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute (1999-2013). He is also a Senior Advisor at KAICIID and also founded Salam Institute for Peace and Justice, an organization that focuses on intra-faith and inter-faith dialogue. In addition to his numerous articles and books, he is the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.

Maryam Ahmad is an attorney practicing in California. She completed her JD from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law, and her bachelor's degree in government with an international relations concentration at California State University, Sacramento (CSUS). As a second-generation Palestinian American and Muslim woman, Maryam is committed to principles of peace and equality and regularly uses her free time to research and advocate for reform.

Sumanto Al Qurtuby is Associate Professor in the Department of Global & Social Studies, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia. Previously, he was a research fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. A graduate of Boston University, Al Qurtuby's research interests include the studies of Muslim politics and cultures, religious violence and peacebuilding. His publications include Religious Violence and Conciliation in Indonesia (Routledge, 2016) and Saudi Arabia and Indonesian Networks: Migration, Education and Islam (I.B. Tauris & Bloomsbury, 2019).

Scott Appleby is Professor of History and the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame. He is the author or editor of 15 books on religion and religions in the modern world and the recipient of four honorary doctorates, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

Trond Bakkevig is a pastor of the Church of Norway. He undertook his doctorate at the University of Oslo (entitled 'Theology and Nuclear Arms') and subsequently has served as the General Secretary of The Church of Norway Council on Ecumenical and International Affairs (1984-1993), personal advisor to the Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs (1987-1988), Vicar of Røa, Oslo (1993-2000), and Dean of Vestre Aker, Oslo (2000-2018). He has facilitated dialogue between religious leaders in Jerusalem and moderated several commissions related to the recent separation of church and state.

Clive Barrett is Chair of Trustees of The Peace Museum, Bradford and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Leeds. A peace movement historian, whose doctoral thesis explored 1930's Christian pacifism, he is the author of Subversive Peacemakers: War-Resistance 1914-1918 (Lutterworth, Cambridge, 2014). An Anglican priest with a background of ecumenical community action, he edited Unity in Process (DLT, London, 2012) and, with Joyce Apsel, Museums for Peace: Transforming Cultures (INMP, The Hague, 2012).

Christine Bell is Professor of Constitutional Law, Assistant Principal (Global Justice) and Director of the Political Settlements Research Programme (www.politicalsettlements.org). She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Nigel Biggar is an ordained Anglican priest, the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, and director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at Christ Church College, Oxford University. He is the author of many books, including In Defence of War, Aiming to Kill: The Ethics of Suicide and Euthanasia, Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation, and What's Wrong With Rights?

Victoria Biggs is a storyteller and special school teacher who has worked extensively with young people who have experienced violence. Her interests include legacies of genocide, taboo histories in contested spaces, and young people's participation in conflict and peacebuilding. She holds Durham University's La Retraite Fellowship in Trauma, Lived Theology, and Reconciliation. Her book Youth and Conflict in Israel-Palestine: Storytelling, Contested Space, and the Politics of Memory was published in 2020 by I.B. Tauris

Julie Blythe is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Politics, Media and Philosophy at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her doctoral research explores Tibetan approaches to conflict within the Tibetan diaspora community. Prior to her current studies, Julie researched and wrote a first-class honours thesis on Tibetan nonviolence while completing a Bachelor degree in International Relations at La Trobe University. Her research areas of interest include peace, nonviolence, conflict resolution and conflict transformation.

Cynthia Boaz, is Professor of Political Science at Sonoma State University, where she specializes in civil resistance and nonviolent strategy, gender and politics, media and political communication, quality of democracy, and politics in science fiction. She has published articles and book chapters on nonviolent action, with special attention to the Iran and Burma cases. Her current research looks at the impact of reproductive rights restrictions on quality of life for women in the United States.

John D. Brewer is Professor of Post-Conflict Studies, Senator George J Mitchell Institute, Queen's University Belfast and Honorary Professor Extraordinary, Stellenbosch University. He is a member of national academies in four countries and of the UN Roster of Global Experts. He was awarded Honorary Doctorate from Brunel University for services to social science and is a former President of the British Sociological Association.

Maryann Cusimano Love is a tenured Associate Professor in the Politics Department of The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She serves on the Arms Control Association Board, Pope Francis' Security Task Force, the Advisory Board of the Catholic Peacebuilding Network, and the US Catholic Bishops' International Justice and Peace Committee. She is an alumna of Johns Hopkins University (PhD) and her recent books include Global Issues Beyond Sovereignty (Rowman and Littlefield 2020).

James DeShaw Rae is Professor of Political Science at California State University, Sacramento. He formerly worked in Washington, DC, as a researcher at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and completed a master's degree in International Affairs (Peace and Conflict Resolution concentration) at American University. He received his PhD in Political Science at the University of Hawai'i and is the author of Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice in East Timor (Lynne Rienner, 2009).

Robert Forster is the PhD fellow at CMI on the project 'Urban Displacement, Development and Donor Policies in the Middle East' (URBAN3DP). He is writing his PhD on the contemporary history of Tripoli, Lebanon.

Ruth Gamble is a Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She is an environmental and cultural historian of Tibet and the Himalaya. Her first book was Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism Reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism; the Third Karmapa and the Invention of a Tradition (Oxford University Press, New York, 2018), and she has also written a biography of the third Karmapa, for the Lives of the Masters Series, Rangjung Dorje, Master of Mahamudra (Shambhala 2020).

Aruna Gnanadason, with a doctorate in ministries (DMin) in feminist theologies from the San Francisco Theological Seminary (SFTS, USA), directed the programmes on Women in Church and Society and the Justice, Peace and Creation, World Council of Churches, Geneva (1991-2009). She now lives in Chennai, India, and is presently national convener of the ecumenically formed Indian Christian Women's Movement. She is the author of With Courage and Compassion: Women and the Ecumenical Movement (Fortress Press, 2020).

John W. de Gruchy is Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town, and Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University. He is the author of books and articles on the church and social history in South Africa, the legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the theology of reconciliation and justice, the relationship between Christianity and democracy, and Christian aesthetics and social transformation.

Theodora Hawksley is an independent British theologian specialising in Catholic social teaching, social ethics, and peacebuilding. She is the author of Peacebuilding and Catholic Social Teaching (Notre Dame University Press, 2020) and an editor of Peacebuilding and the Arts (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Jeffrey Haynes is Professor Emeritus of Politics at London Metropolitan University, UK. Among his recent publications are Religion, Conflict and Post-Secular Politics (London, Routledge, 2020) and The Routledge Handbook to Religion and Political Parties (ed.), (London: Routledge, 2020).

Helen M. Hintjens is Assistant Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University, The Hague. Her interests span pro-asylum advocacy, (de)securitisation of cross-border forced migration, forced migration, and sanctuary cities, especially in Swansea (Wales), and in post-genocide forced migration and recovery in the African Great Lakes region. Her current work with undocumented researchers, and...