Kristen Wall Author & Editor

David Cortright is the Director of Policy Studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He has written widely on nonviolence and issues of peace and armed conflict. He has provided research services to the foreign ministries of Canada, Sweden, Switzerland and other countries on the use of UN Security Council sanctions. He is the author or editor of twenty books, including Civil Society, Peace, and Power (2016) and Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (Cambridge, 2008). Conor Seyle is the Director of Research at One Earth Future Foundation, an operating foundation focused on developing good governance systems for sustainable peace. He is a political psychologist by training, and has published research in the past on the role of non-state actors in atrocity prevention and in supporting good governance overall, political extremism, and disaster recovery and resilience programming. His most recent book, co-edited with John Forrer, is The Role of Business in the Responsibility to Protect (Cambridge, 2016). Kristen Wall edits scholarship on peace evaluation at George Mason University's School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution and was formerly Program Manager for Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. She has worked in international democratic development in Eastern Europe and currently teaches Montessori peace education. She has written on global civil society's engagement in the New Deal and co-edited Drones and the Future of Armed Conflict: Ethical, Legal, and Strategic Implications (2015).