Religion and Peacebuilding

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Scott Appleby is Professor of History and the John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He received his Ph.D. in the history of Christianity from the University of Chicago in 1985. Appleby is the author, editor or co-editor of ten books on religious modernisms and fundamentalisms in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His most recent book, “The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation ” (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000), was commissioned by the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Violence. Andrea Bartoli is the Director of the International Conflict Resolution Program at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Chair of the Columbia University Conflict Resolution Network . As a member of the Community of St. Egidio, Dr. Bartoli has been actively involved in conflict resolution since the early 1980s focusing on Mozambique, Algeria, Burundi, Kosovo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC); ICRP initiatives are currently focused in Colombia, East Timor, Myanmar (Burma) and northern Iraq. Dr. Bartoli is a graduate of the University of Rome, Italy. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Milan, Italy. His most recent publications include “‘Mediating Peace in Mozambique’“ in Herding Cats: Multiparty Mediation in a Complex World (edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen O. Hampson , Pamela Aall, USIP, Washington: 2000) and Somalia, Rwanda and Beyond co-edited with Edward Giradet and Jeffrey Carmel (Crosslines, Cambridge, 1995). Judith A. Berling is Professor of Chinese and Comparative Religions at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1976. She taught Chinese religions for 12 years at Indiana University, and has been a visiting professor at Stanford, 303 C O N T R I B U T O R S University of Chicago Divinity School, and Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Her two major books are The Syncretic Religion of Lin Chaoen (1980) and A Pilgrim in Chinese Culture: Negotiating Religious Diversity (1997). She has lectured extensively and written numerous articles and chapters on topics relating to Chinese religion. She is a past president of the American Academy of Religion, a founding co-editor of Teaching Theology and Religion, and a member of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia. H. Russel Botman is Professor and Dean Alternate of the Faculty of Theology at the Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He received his Ph.D. from the University of the Western Cape where he also served as Dean of the Faculty of Religion and Theology. He works primarily in questions related to Christianity and Society (Public Theology). He is the author of a significant number of publications and co-edited the book To Remember and To Heal: Theological and Psychological Reflections on Truth and Reconciliation published by Human and Rousseau, Cape Town. He is a consultant to the World Alliance of Reformed Churches on economic globalization. Judy Carter is completing her Master’s degree in Conflict Analysis and Management at Royal Roads University. She has over 20 years experience as a journalist and runs her own communication and media relations consulting business. She works with private and public sector clients throughout North America. Areas of interest include rural land use, environmental conflict, and conflict prevention. Her most recent book is Farming with Neighbours: A Guide for Canadian Farmers on Preventing and Resolving Community Conflicts over Farming Practices. Harold Coward is a Professor of History and is the Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society at the University of Victoria. He received his Ph.D. from McMaster University. With a teaching focus on India, comparative religion, and ecology, he has supervised numerous students for their M.A. and Ph.D. degrees both at the University of Victoria and at the University of Calgary. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has been the recipient of numerous research grants from SSHRC and the Ford Foundation. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Banaras Hindu University and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh University. He has written sixty-two articles and is author/editor of thirty-two books, including: Hindu Ethics (1988); The Philosophy of the Grammarians (1990); Derrida and Indian Philosophy (1990); Mantra: Hearing the Divine in India (1991); Population , Consumption, and the Environment (1995). 304 Contributors Diane D’Souza is currently the Associate Director (Praxis) of the...