Douglas Johnston is president and founder of the International Center for Religion & Diplomacy in Washington, D.C. His books include Religion, The Missing Dimension of Statecraft (as co-editor) and Faith-Based Diplomacy: Trumping Realpolitik.

Susan Hayward is associate director of the Religious Literacy and the Professions Initiative at Harvard University, teaching quarterly workshops to all incoming foreign service officers at the U.S. State Department on religious literacy for diplomacy and development. Formerly, she was the program officer of the Religion and Peacemaking program at the United States Institute of Peace, […]

David Cortright is president of the Fourth Freedom Forum and a research fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He has served as a consultant or adviser to agencies of the United Nations, international think tanks and the foreign ministries of Canada, Japan and several […]

Mark Tessler is the Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He also directs the university’s International Institute. He has done extensive research on public opinion in the Arab world and is the author of A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, among other publications.

Daniel Philpott is an associate professor in the political science department and the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is involved in a major Harvard University-based study on religion and global politics and wrote a forthcoming book on reconciliation in global politics, Just and Unjust Peace: […]

Gary M. Simpson is a professor of systematic theology at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minn., and director of the seminary’s God-in-Global-Civil-Society Project. He wrote the 2007 book War, Peace and God: Rethinking the Just-War Tradition.

Lisa Schirch is a professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University. She is program director of the university’s 3D Security Initiative. The university hosted a summer Peacebuilding Institute with representatives from the U.S. military and a wide variety of civil groups interested in peacemaking.

Abdul Aziz Said is Mohammed Said Farsi Professor of Islamic Peace at American University in Washington, D.C. His publications include Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice (as co-editor), Cultural Diversity and Islam (also as co-editor) and Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East.

Marc H. Gopin is James H. Laue Professor of World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution and director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia. He is frequently quoted on conflict resolution, and his publications include Holy War, Holy Peace: How Religion Can Bring Peace to […]