Jeffrey Sonis is assistant professor of social medicine and family medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches the psychosocial consequences of human rights violations. He has also studied the potential for mechanisms that facilitate justice, such as truth commissions and tribunals, for improving racial and ethnic tension, including in South Africa; […]

Kent Nerburn is an author, sculptor and educator with degrees in theology and art who focuses on Native American issues. He is the author of Calm Surrender: Walking the Path of Forgiveness. He lives in Minnesota.

Roy L. Brooks is the Warren Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of San Diego in California and the author of Atonement and Forgiveness: A New Model for Black Reparations.

Ruby Bridges Hall founded the Ruby Bridges Foundation in 1999 out of her experience in 1960 as the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school. The foundation, based in New Orleans, promotes tolerance, respect and acceptance of differences. She is also co-chair of A Campaign for Forgiveness Research.

Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet is an associate professor of psychology at Hope College in Holland, Mich. Forgiveness and health constitute one of her primary areas of interest, and she is researching how the emotion of forgiveness relates to health.

June Tangney is a psychology professor at George Mason University near Washington, D.C., who has studied how individual traits and situations contribute to forgiveness.  

Laurie Anne Pearlman co-founded the Traumatic Stress Institute and the Trauma Research, Education and Training Institute, where she still serves as president. She also directs the Clinical Associates Program of the Headington Institute, which offers psychological and spiritual support to relief and development workers around the world. She serves on the practice committee of the American Psychological […]

Michael E. McCullough is professor of psychology and religious studies at the University of Miami in Coral Cables, Fl. He directs the Laboratory for Social Clinical Psychology, where the consequences of forgiveness and related moral emotions and their effects on health and well-being are being studied. He is co-editor of Forgiveness: Theory, Research and Practice and author of […]

Frans B.M. deWaal is the C.H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University, and he directs the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta. His renowned research with primates has looked at the evolution of human emotions and morals, and he has studied whether apes can feel sympathy. He has studied how nonhuman primates reconcile […]