Bea Rangira Gallimore, Ph.D. University of Cincinnati, is an associate professor of French in the Department of Romance Language and Literatures at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Her focus is Francophone Sub-Saharan and North African literature. Increasingly, her attention has turned to various dimensions of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. She is the curriculum advisor to the Department of Gender and Development at the Institute of education in Kigali. In 2002, she established the area of Genocide Studies there. In 2009, she developed the Rwanda Study Abroad program at MU, and consults with various United Nations agencies including UNESCO and UNDP. In 2012, she won the MU President’s Faculty Award for Cross-Cultural Engagement. She is currently conducting research on gender in post-genocide Rwanda. She has published numerous articles, 2 books and 3 co-edited volumes.
Email address: Gallimorer@missouri.edu

Tim Gallimore, Ph.D, is an international communications consultant and mass media trainer. He obtained his Ph.D. in mass communication from Indiana University—Bloomington. He served as vice president for the accreditation relations at the Higher Learning Commission from April 2012 to August 2013. He was Assistant Commissioner for Academic Affairs at the Missouri Department of Higher education from 2008 to 2011. He also served as Spokesperson for the prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda where he worked from 2004 to 2008. In 1994, he was a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary and Poland. He has taught journalism in several universities in the United States. He has published many articles and book chapters on media law, terrorism, psychosocial trauma, reconciliation, and conflict resolution
Email address: gallimoret@gmail.com

Richard Hessler, Ph.D. is emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri in Columbia. He publishes in the areas of gerontology and methodology. He is presently working on an epigenetics study of the Alzheimer disease. He is co-editor of IJCR.
Email address: Hesslerr@missouri.edu

Tim Horner, Ph.D. is a faculty member in the Center for Peace and Justice Education at Villanova University. He received his D.Phil. from Oxford University where his doctoral work centered on early Jewish/Christian Relations. His historical work on these early centuries sought to understand how people and institutions used and continue to use religion to get people to tow the official line as well as confine and condemn entire groups of people. In the years after 9/11 his research has focused on the modern era and the genocide in Rwanda. He teaches classes on genocide, social justice, and human nature.
Email address: timothy.horner@villanova.edu

Douglas Hunt, a Rhodes scholar, received his MA at Oxford University in England. He taught in the English Department at the University of Missouri, Columbia for 30 years, retired in 2003 and is now associate professor emeritus. His research and teaching interests are composition and curriculum development. In addition to his articles, he has written several books including Misunderstanding the Assignment (2002) and Black and White Justice in Little Dixie (2011).
Email address: HuntD@missouri.edu

Dominique Payette, Ph.D., is an associate professor in th Department of Information and Communication, Universite Laval in Quebec city (Canada) where she has worked since 2006. She worked for 30 years as a radio and TV journalist. She has a Master’s in Communication and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her doctoral thesis examined the genocide in Rwanda and she published « La Dérive sanglante du Rwanda [The Bloody Drift of Rwanda] » at Ecosociété Ed.
Email address: Dominique.Payette@com.ulaval.ca

Tola Olu Pearce, Ph.D. is a Professor at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She has a joint appointment in the Departments of Sociology and Women’s and Gender Studies, and is a faculty advisor in the Peace Studies Program at MU. She obtained her PhD from Brown University, Rhode Island. Her areas of research are women and health, social inequalities, development/globalization and human rights. She is co-editor of IJCR.
Email address: pearcei@missouri.edu

Takeshi Wada, Ph.D. is an associate professor of Area Studies and of Advanced Social and International Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo, Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Columbia University in 2003. His current research interests include contentious politics and social movements, popular protests in Mexico, research methodology, and database development using natural language processing technologies. This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) #22530531.
Email Address: wada@waka.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Bill Wickersham, Ph.D. is an educational psychologist, peace educator and presently an adjunct professor in the Peace Studies Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is a well-known peace activist and received the GK Ikeda peace Award for the Martin Luther King, Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College m Atlanta. He currently serves as an associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Santa Barbara, as member of Global Action to prevent war, and is a member of Veterans for Peace. Wickersham has published a number of books including Confronting Nuclear War: The Role of Education, Religion and The Community, which he co-authored with Jared Gassen.
Email address: bwickers@centurytel.net