Contributors

 

Juan Pablo Aranguren Romero

Juan Pablo Aranguren Romero is an associate professor of psychology at the University of the Andes.

 

David Barash

David P. Barash: evolutionary biologist and peace activist, emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Washington, Fellow of the AAAS, author of more than 200 peer-reviewed technical articles and 41 books.  Husband, father, grandfather, dog-, horse-, and cat-lover, antinuclear troublemaker.

 

ChatGPT

ChatGPT is an AI language model created in 2021 and developed by OpenAI. When prompted, it describes its role in the world as “to assist users by providing information, answering questions, and engaging in conversations on a wide range of topics. I aim to facilitate learning, offer guidance, and foster meaningful interactions”.

 

Sophie Cherel

Sophie Cherel is a freelance French, Spanish, and English translator. Coming from a background in print and radio journalism, she has worked in many countries and now lives in the Canary Islands.

 

Ever Giraldo Kuiru (Nóinui Jitóma)

Ever Kuiru Naforo (Noinui Jitóma) Roraɨma is a traditional cantor. He graduated in Mother Earth Pedagogy from the University of Antioquia, where he is studying for a masters in literature. He is also a teacher, translator, editor and researcher in Diversity and Ancestral Knowledge at the GELCIL research group of the University of Antioquia.

 

DM Fletcher

DM Fletcher was educated near London. After a number of years spent living abroad in Spain and France, the author returned to the UK to work in the National Health Sector and the Arts. DM Fletcher now lives in Sussex.

 

 

Douglas P. Fry, PhD

Anthropologist and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies.

Douglas P. Fry’s Webpage

Beyond War, Nurturing Our Humanity, War, Peace, and Human Nature and more.

Book info at:  Author Page

Peace Systems article 2021: Open Access

Film: A Path Away from War: The Science of Peace Systems

 

Struan Mackenzie

Struan Mackenzie is a civil servant by day with a personal interest in global politics, governance, systems, and elevating neurodivergent voices.  He was born in Edinburgh, lives in London, and publishes a video series on late-diagnosed neurodivergence.

 

Mark-Alec Mellor

Mark-Alec Mellor is the founder of Cadenza Academic Translations, a team devoted to translating academic articles and books in the humanities, social sciences, and the arts.

 

María Cristina Peñuela Mora

María Cristina Peñuela Mora is a biologist, with a Masters in Forest Resources Management and a PhD in Ecology. She has been involved in projects in the Amazon for almost three decades, from research assistant to researcher and university teacher. She is interested in education as a pathway to sustainable natural resource management.

 

Gary G. Nelson

Gary G. Nelson has worked in systems engineering, including at federally funded Research and Development Centers in Washington, DC. He has worked and published in applying complex systems theory to projects, organizations and urban development.

 

Nij

Nij is a miniaturist who works chiefly in pen and ink. He has recently become curious about the possibilities of image-editing software.

 

Jack Parvid

Jack Parvid is a philosopher, essayist, and short story writer currently living in the UK. His non-fiction work is mainly concerned with ethics.

 

Lawrence Rosenwald

Lawrence Rosenwald is Professor of English Emeritus at Wellesley College, where he taught from 1980 till 2022.  Among his recent publications is War No More, an anthology of American antiwar and peace writing; his current project is Portrait of a Pacifist Critic.

 

Jerl Surratt

Jerl Surratt’s poems have been published in The Hopkins Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, The New Criterion, other journals and two anthologies. Born in rural Texas, he lives and works in New York’s Hudson River Valley.

 

Al Sweeney

Al Sweeney is an Irish poet and novelist.

 

Nigel S. Thompson

Nigel S. Thompson is a poet, critic and translator. He has worked as a gardener and museum curator in Italy and an academic and creative writing tutor in Oxford. His latest collections are After War(New Walk Editions) and Ghost Hands(Melos Press), both 2020.