Halil Ibrahim Bahar is Professor of Sociology at the Ankara Strategy Institute, Turkey, an independent think-tank, where he has been working since 2011. He graduated from the Police Academy, Ankara, in 1988. He later received his MA and Ph.D. from the University of Leicester in England. Professor Bahar teaches several sociology courses including the sociology of institutions in the Faculty of Security Sciences at the Ankara Strategy Institute, and victimology in the Institute for Security Sciences at the Police Academy.
Email Address: hibahar@hotmail.com

Damian Etone is a Ph.D. candidate at the Adelaide Law School, University of Adelaide-Australia. He works as an International Criminal Law Reporter for Oxford University Press and has authored six published law reports on International criminal law. His research interests cover the areas of international human rights law, transitional justice and international criminal law.
Email address: damian.etone@adelaide.edu.au Richard M. 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 the epigenetics of Alzheimer’s disease. He is co-editor of IJCR.
Email address: Hesslerr@missouri.edu

Wendy Ann Wiedenhoft Murphy is an associate professor of sociology at John Carroll University. She has worked with the Belfast Summer Institute as a lead faculty member and director, which has informed her research on conflict tourism in West Belfast and the Ulster-Scots diaspora.
Email address: wwiedenhoft@jcu.edu

Ebenezer Obadare is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kansas and Research Fellow at the Research Institute for Theology and Religion, University of South Africa. He is the author/editor of several books, including, most recently, Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria (University of Rochester Press, 2016).
Email address: obadare@ku.edu

Aaron Padgett is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at the University of Missouri- Columbia. He holds a B.A. in Sociology with an emphasis in Sustainable Community Development from Georgetown College. He has volunteered with AmeriCorps in Kentucky and with WorldTeach in Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. His interests include decoloniality, imperialism, globalization/development, transnationalism, and Micronesian diaspora.
Email Address: japqn5@mail.missouri.edu

Tola Olu Pearce, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology and Women’s & Gender Studies, and faculty advisor in the Peace Studies Program at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She obtained her Ph.D. from Brown University, Rhode Island. Research interests: sociology of health and illness, gender, social inequalities, development/globalization and human rights. She is co-editor of IJCR.
Email address: pearcei@missouri.edu

Mindy Peden is Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science at John Carroll University. Her previous publications can be found in Lessons from Northern Ireland (University of Wisconsin Press, 2014), Constructing the Nation (Albany: SUNY Press (2009), Contemporary Political Theory, Studies in Political Economy, and Politics and Policy.
Email address: mpeden@jcu.edu

Timothy J. White is Professor of Political Science at Xavier University. His research has focused on Ireland, Northern Ireland, and efforts at peace building after the Good Friday Agreement. He served on the executive of the American Conference for Irish Studies and directs a summer program in Ireland for Xavier.
Email address: white@xavier.edu