The Oxford Handbook of Peace History

Charles F. Howlett is Professor Emeritus of Education, Molloy University. He is a recipient of the Peace History Society's Lifetime Achievement Award and Molloy College Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Award. His latest book with Seth Kershner and Scott Harding, Breaking the War Habit: The Debate over Militarism in American Education, published in July 2022.

Christian Philip Peterson received his PhD in history from Ohio University and teaches at Ferris State University (MI-USA). Along with winning several teaching awards, he has published numerous scholarly articles and books, including Globalizing Human Rights: Private Citizens, the Soviet Union, and the West (2012). He also served as co-editor for The Routledge History of World Peace since 1750 (2018).

Deborah D. Buffton is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where she taught World, French, and Chinese History as well as courses on Peace and War and on Nonviolent Resistance Movements. She has served previously as President of the Peace History Society and Executive Director of the Wisconsin Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies. She has published articles on women and war, propaganda, and the ways that peace and war are memorialized.

David L. Hostetter is the author of Movement Matters: American Antiapartheid Activism and the Rise of Multicultural Politics; co-editor of Congress Investigates: A Documented History; and has published many academic articles, newspaper commentaries, and encyclopedia entries. He is a graduate of Juniata College where he majored in Peace and Conflict Studies, and he earned his PhD in history from the University of Maryland College Park.