Autor: Jackie Smith

Jackie Smith is professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the editor of the Journal of World-Systems Research and author or coeditor of a number of works on social movements and globalization, including Social Movements in the World-System: The Politics of Crisis and Transformation. Ernesto Verdeja is assistant professor of political science and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Unchopping a Tree: Reconciliation in the Aftermath of Political Violence and of articles on transitional justice, political reconciliation, and the causes of mass violence; he is also a coeditor of volumes on genocide studies.