James Earhart received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2001.  The topic of the dissertation was the Dunlop Commission and efforts to revise management-labor relations under the Clinton administration.  He is currently an independent scholar with interests in the area of labor relations and political sociology.  He occasionally teaches sociology courses for Columbia College in Columbia, Missouri.  

Email address: jjearhart@ccis.edu

Holly Ann Friesen is a visual artist working in Kenora, Ontario, Canada.  She works largely with the medium of paint creating images in abstraction.  She takes familiar subjects and transforms them into recognizable but unique images.  Holly Ann is also involved on the Boards of several community arts organizations.  One of these organizations is the Lake of the Woods Arts Collective (LOWAC, now Lake of the Woods Arts Community), of which she is a founding member.  LOWAC was formed with the vision of inspiring unity, joy and opportunity through the arts in Kenora and the surrounding area.

Email address: hollyannfriesen@me.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 of Alzheimer’s disease. He is co-editor of IJCR.

Email address: Hesslerr@missouri.edu

Brian-Vincent Ikejiaku, Ph.D. is an international interdisciplinary scholar of Law & Politics/IR; he works from non-western perspectives and methodologies within the framework of international development. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the School of Business & Law British Institute of Technology & E-commerce, London UK brian@bite.ac.uk, and a part-time tutor in the College of Law, Humanities & Social SciencesUniversity of Derby UK.

Email address: B.Ikejiaku@derby.ac.uk.

Grazvydas Jasutis is an Associate Professor at the General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy of Lithuania. He also lectures at Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University.  He received his Ph.D. from the University of Vilnius, Lithuania. He is a conflict management practitioner and held various positions in  the EU Monitoring Mission in Georgia, the EU Monitoring Mission in Aceh (Indonesia),the OSCE Mission in Kosovo, the OSCE Mission in FYROM, the Permanent Delegation to NATO, and the Ministry of National Defense of Lithuania. He conducted various researches on the post-soviet security issues at Harriman Institute, Creighton University and Vytautas Magnus University.

Email address: grazvydas.jasutis@gmail.com 

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

Jeff Stilley is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  Originally from Lee’s Summit, Missouri, he completed his M.A. in Sociology at the University of Colorado Denver and B.S. in Secondary Education at Kansas State University.  His interests include the history of capitalism, political economy theory, retail capital, inequality, and gender. 

Email address: jasd81@mail.missouri.edu.

Herbert K. Tillema, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Missouiri-Columbia. A.B., Hope College, 1964. PhD., Harvard University, 1969. Author: APPEAL TO FORCE; INTERNATIONAL ARMED CONFLICT SINCE 1945; articles in JOURNAL OF PEACE RESEARCH, JOURNAL OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION, INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY, and other books and journals."

Email address: Tillema@missouri.edu

Melanie Zurba is a PhD candidate at the Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba. She currently is conducting her doctoral research under the Common Ground Research Forum in Northwest Ontario, Canada. Melanie’s research focuses on cross-cultural collaboration and learning towards more socially just forms of regional resource governance. Decolonizing theory and praxis, collaboration, participatory action research, and reconciliation are guiding themes to her work as an academic. Melanie is also a visual artist. She uses mixed media to explore human relationships with each other and with place.

Email address: umzurba2@myumanitoba.ca