Naomi Drew, a consultant and author, stresses the need in a troubled and sometimes violent world for children to learn conflict resolution and peacemaking. A former teacher, she conducts workshops for parents and schools. Drew is the author of Hope and Healing: Peaceful Parenting in an Uncertain World.

Rabbi Marc Gellman is senior rabbi of Temple Beth Torah in Melville, N.Y. He has written several books of modern midrashim for children, including Does God Have a Big Toe? Stories About Stories in the Bible, and is author of the post-9/11 book And God Cried Too: A Kid’s Book of Healing and Hope. With his Roman Catholic friend Monsignor […]

Regina Schwartz is director of the Institute for Religion and Global Violence at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.

Sam Goldstein is a neuropsychologist on the faculty of the University of Utah and in private practice at the Neurology, Learning and Behavior Center in Salt Lake City. He is the co-author of Raising Resilient Children: Fostering Strength, Hope and Optimism in Your Child and the forthcoming Raising a Self-Disciplined Child: Help Your Child Become More Responsible, Confident and Resilient. […]

Oren Gross is a professor at University of Minnesota Law School. He is author of the paper, “The Prohibition on Torture and the Limits of the Law.”

The Rev. Jerome W. Berryman, an author and Episcopal priest, is a senior fellow with the Center for the Theology of Childhood in Houston. He has developed an internationally used approach to religious education called “Godly Play,” inspired by the Montessori approach to learning, which teaches children through parables, silence, liturgical movement and sacred stories. It’s used internationally […]

Ann Annis is a researcher at the Center for Social Research at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich.

Douglass Cassel is former director of the Center for International Human Rights at Northwestern University, a professor of law at Notre Dame University and a frequent commentator on human rights issues. Contact 574.631.7895 (office),773-750-5387 (cell).

George E. Edwards is director of Program in International Human Rights Law at Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis.