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 Professor 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.
 Joyce 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.
 Professor
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).
 Dr. 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. 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 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
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.
 Dr 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 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 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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