Автор: Christopher Mitchell

Susan Allen is Director of the Center for Peacemaking Practice at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University, USA, where she is an Associate Professor teaching action research, reflective practice, evaluation and other ways of blending research and practice in the conflict resolution field. Dr. Allen holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from the same institution in Conflict Analysis and Resolution. Landon Hancock is Professor at Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies, USA, and Affiliated Faculty at Kyung Hee University’s Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, South Korea, and the Program for the Prevention of Mass Violence at George Mason University’s Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution, USA. His research focuses the role of ethnicity and identity in conflict generation, dynamics, resolution and post-conflict efforts in transitional justice. This is coupled with an interest in grassroots peacebuilding, zones of peace and the role of agency in the success or failure of peacebuilding efforts. He is co-editor (with Christopher Mitchell) of Zones of Peace (2007), Local Peacebuilding and National Peace (2012) and Local Peacebuilding and Legitimacy (2018). Christopher Mitchell is Emeritus Professor of Conflict Research at George Mason University’s Carter School, USA. He works on the practical and theoretical aspects of peace making, and has published books and articles on conflict resolution, and on ending asymmetric conflicts. He has recently co-edited three books about grassroots peacebuilding with Landon Hancock, the latest of which, Legitimacy and Local Peace-building [Routledge] was published in Spring 2018. His retrospective text book, The Nature of Intractable Conflict, was published in Spanish as La Naturaleza de los Conflictos Intratables [Edicions Bellaterra] in 2016.  Cécile Mouly is Research Professor at FLACSO Ecuador and their Coordinator of the research group in Peace and Conflict. She is also a practitioner and as teaches postgraduate courses and practitioner trainings on conflict analysis, conflict transformation and peacebuilding. She is a resource person in “Conflict Prevention: Analysis for Action” for the UN System Staff College and a member of the academic council of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. She currently collaborates with the Colombian truth commission.  Her research focuses on the role of civil society in peacebuilding, peace processes, civil resistance in the context of armed conflict and the social reintegration of former combatants.