Dr. Andrea Bartoli is Director of the SIPA International Conflict Resolution Program at Colombia University, New York, USA, and chair of the university’s Seminar on Religions and Conflict Resolution. Previously he was Professor of Social Anthropology in the School of Public Health at the University of Rome, Italy. He has been actively involved in conflict resolution and preventive diplomacy since the early 1980s as vice-president of the Community of St. Egidio, especially in Mozambique, Algeria, Guatemala, Kosovo, Albania,and Burundi. He was co-editor of Somalia, Rwanda and Beyond: The Role of the International Media in Wars and Humanitarian Crises (Crosslines, 1995).

Dr. Elise Boulding is Professor Emerita of Sociology and former Chair, Department of Sociology, Dartmouth College, Massachusetts. She has been Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association, chair of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and board member, American Friends Service Committee. Her publications include The Underside of History: A View of Women Through Time (Sage Publications), and Building a Global Civic Culture (Syracuse University Press).

Rachel Brett is Associate Representative in the Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva, Switzerland. She holds a degree in International Human Rights Law from the University of Essex, U.K., and previously taught law at the University of Essex. She was originator and principal researcher of the Essex Human Rights Centre’s project on the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Her most recent publication is Children: The Invisible Soldiers, with co-author Margaret McCallum (Stockholm, Radda Barnen, 1996).

Jim Forest is Secretary for the Orthodox Peace Fellowship. Previously he was General Secretary for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation, based in Netherlands. He is author of Praying with Icons (Orbis, 1997), Love is the Measure: A Biography of Dorothy Day (Orbis, 1994), Living with Wisdom: A Biography of Thomas Merton (Orbis, 1991), and two books on religious life in Russia, Pilgrim to the Russian Church (Crossroad, 1988) and Religion in the New Russia (Crossroad, 1990).

Dr. Duane K. Friesen is Professor of Bible and Religion at Bethel College, Kansas. He is author of Christian Peacemaking and International Conflict: A Realist Pacifist Perspective (Herald Press, 1986) and a contributor to Protest, Power and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women’s Sufferage (Garland Publishing, 1997). Dr. Friesen is a member of the Historic Peace Churches/Fellowship of Reconciliation Consultative Committee.

Robert Herr and Judy Zimmerman Herr are Co-Directors of the International Peace Office for Mennonite Central Committee. Their academic studies were in economic development and theology. Previously they were Mennonite Central Committee administrators for Southern Africa. Their most recent work for publication was a contribution to the book From the Ground Up: Mennonite Experiences in International Conciliation (Syracuse University Press, 1998). Judy is a member of the Historic Peace Churches/Fellowship of Reconciliation Consultative Committee.

Doug Hostetter is International/Interfaith Secretary for the Fellowship of Reconciliation USA in Nyack, New York, and director for the Bosnian Student Project. He has worked previously as Executive Secretary for the FOR-USA and as Executive Secretary of the American Friends Service Committee New England Regional Office. He has worked at active nonviolence in Vietnam, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Israel/Palestine, Iraq, and Bosnia. He has published widely in periodicals, and his account of the Bosnian Student Project was published as a Pendle Hill Pamphlet in 1997. He is a member of the Historic Peace Churches/Fellowship of Reconciliation Consultative Committee.

Dekha Ibrahim is Deputy Coordinator of the Nomadic Health Care Project in Wajir District, Kenya. She is the secretary of the Wajir Peace and Development Committee and one of the founders of Wajir Women for Peace. She has conducted peace and mediation training in Africa and has been a trainer at the “Responding to Conflict” program of Selly Oaks College, University of Birmingham, U.K., where she also received her formal conflict resolution training. Formerly she worked as a primary school teacher in Wajir, Kenya.

David Jackman is Associate Representative for the Quaker United Nations Office in New York. He specializes in disarmament, preventive diplomacy, peacekeeping, and postconflict peacebuilding. He has worked as a Programme Associate for Project Ploughshares in Waterloo, Canada, and as an organizer of nonviolence and conflict resolution workshops. He has been a member of the Canadian Friends Service Committee. Publications include articles in various peace movement and church periodicals.

Janice Jenner is a graduate student in the Conflict Transformation Program of Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she also teaches classes in cross-cultural learning. From 1989 to 1996 she served as Co-Country Representative for the Mennonite Central Committee in Kenya and was involved in peace and justice work in East Africa.

Kathleen Kern is a volunteer with Christian Peacemaker Teams, with significant involvement in Haiti and the West Bank/Palestine. She is a graduate from Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, New York, and has worked as a curriculum writer for Bible Study Guides for the Mennonite Church for the past eight years. She is author of When it Hurts to Live (Faith and Life Press, 1994) and We Are the Pharisees (Herald Press, 1995).

Dr. John Paul Lederach is Professor in the Conflict Transformation Program of Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia. He has served as Director of International Conciliation Services for Mennonite Central Committee and continues as a consultant for MCC’s work in international conciliation. He has done training in conflict resolution and worked at mediating conflicts in Nicaragua, Somalia, the Phillippines, Northern Ireland, and elsewhere. Among his recent publications are Preparing for Peace: Conflict Transformation Across Cultures (Syracuse University Press, 1995) and Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies (U.S. Institute of Peace, 1997).

Dr. Lauree Hersch Meyer is Doctor of Ministry Program Director and Associate Professor of Theology at Colgate Rochester Divinity School, New York. She was Professor of Biblical Theology and Interpretation at Bethany Theological Seminary. She has been a participant in ecumenical conversations internationally and through membership in the Faith and Order Commission of the National Council of Churches of the USA. Recent publications include contributions to The Dilemma of Anabaptist Piety (Penobscot Press, 1997) and Should God Get Tenure? Essays on Religion and Higher Education (Eerdmanns, 1997). Dr. Meyer is a member of the Historic Peace Churches/Fellowship of Reconciliation Consultative Committee.

Dr. Andries Odendaal is Senior Researcher and Trainer in the Saamspan Project of the Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town, South Africa. He was Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Theology, University of the North, and Regional Coordinator for the Western Cape Peace Committee. Previous publications include a chapter in New Agendas for Peace Research, edited by Elise Boulding (Lynne Reinner, 1992), as well as an Occasional Paper published in 1996 by Track Two with Chris Spies, titled “Local Peace Committees in the Rural Areas of the Western Cape.”

Dr. Gerald Pillay is Professor of Theology and Head of the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Previously he was Professor of Church History at the University of South Africa. Dr. Pillay is author of Religion at the Limits, Albert Luthuli (vol. 1, Voices of Liberation), and a contributor to A History of Christianity in South Africa as well as to other volumes.

Dr. Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Haji Qader Muheideen), founder and director of Peace Information Center, teaches political science at Thammasat University, Bankok, Thailand, where he introduced the first university course in Thailand on nonviolence over a decade ago. He is a member of the International Peace Research Association and former convener of their Nonviolence Commission. His most recent publications include Peace Theory/Cultural Means (Bangkok: Komol Keemthong Foundation, 1996); Islam e Nonviolenza (Torino: Edizioni Gruppo Abele, 1997); and as co-editor, The Frontiers of Nonviolence (IPRA Nonviolence Commission; Honolulu: Center for Global Nonviolence; Bangkok: Peace Information Center, 1998).

Lisa Schirch is Assistant Professor in the Conflict Transformation Program of Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Conflict Analysis and Transformation at George Mason University and author of Keeping the Peace: Exploring Civilian Alternatives in Conflict Prevention (Life and Peace Institute, Sweden, 1995).

Martin Shupack is Legislative Associate for International Affairs in the Mennonite Central Committee’s Washington, D.C. Office. He holds a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in international law and has worked as a pastor and community organizer in the United States and under the Mennonite Central Committee in Mexico. His publications include articles in the Harvard Human Rights Journal, the Conrad Grebel Review, and in church publications.

Dr. Dorothee Soelle studied classical philology, philosophy, theology, and German literature and has taught at various German educational institutions from 1954 to 1975. She was Harry Emerson Fosdick Visiting Professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York from 1978 to 1987. She now works as a freelance writer of theology and poetry in Hamburg, Germany, and as an activist for peace, justice, and creation. She has published numerous books, including most recently Theology for Sceptics (Fortress Press, 1995) and Creative Disobedience (Pilgrim Press, 1995).

Rev. Chris Spies is Senior Trainer and Researcher in Conflict Resolution for Project Saamspan of the Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town, South Africa. He has served previously as a pastor in the Uniting Reformed Church of South Africa and as Coordinator of the Western Cape Regional Peace Committee. Together with Dr. Andries Odendaal, he has authored an Occasional Paper published by Track Two in 1996, “Local Peace Committees in the rural areas of the Western Cape.”

Dr. Glen H. Stassen is the Lewis Smedes Professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, California, USA. He has served as Co-Chair of the Strategy Committee of the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and is a board member of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America. Dr. Stassen’s most recent publications include Just Peacemaking: Transforming Initiatives for Justice and Peace (Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992). He is editor of Just Peacemaking: Ten Practices to Abolish War (forthcoming from Pilgrim Press,1998) and co-author with John Howard Yoder and Diane Yeager of Authentic Transformation: A New View of Christ and Culture (Abingdon Press, 1996).

Dr. Walter Wink is Professor of Biblical Interpretation at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City. He has also worked as a parish minister and taught at Union Theological Seminary, New York. In 1989-90 he was a Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace. Dr. Wink is author of numerous books and articles, among which is his trilogy, Naming the Powers, Unmasking the Powers, and Engaging the Powers (Fortress Press). He has done teaching in biblical nonviolence in South Africa, Northern Ireland, the former East Germany, South Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, and North America.

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