Elaine Bishop has been warden of the Quaker Meeting House in Glasgow, Scotland, and pursuing a Ph.D. through Sunderland University in England on the topic of "Peace and Land: A Challenge to Quakerism." Elaine holds a B.A. from Queens University (Kingston, Ontario), a B.Ed. from Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, Ontario), and an M.S.W. from Carleton University (Ottawa, Ontario). She has worked with women and children survivors of abuse and homelessness, been coordinator of Canadian Friends Service Committee, and spent four years working with the Lubicon Cree Nation. Elaine is a former clerk of Canadian Yearly Meeting and past chair of the Abor-iginal Rights Coalition (Project North), now part of the KAIROS Coalition of the Canadian Council of Churches. Dr. Neal Blough is director of the Paris Mennonite Centre and professor of church history at the Faculté Libre de Théologie Évangélique (Vaux sur Seine). His Th.D. degree from the Protestant Faculty of Theology at the University of Strasbourg is on Pilgram Marpeck’s Christology. Patrick Bugu is a minister in the EYN Church of Nigeria (the Church of the Brethren in Nigeria). He is principal of the Kulp Bible College, Adamawa state. He is a graduate of the Theological College of Northern Nigeria, and completed a Th.M. at Bethany Theological Seminary (Richmond, Indiana) in 2001. Peter Dula has served with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) in Burundi, Africa, and is a doctoral student in theology and ethics in the Duke University Graduate Department of Religion, Durham, North Carolina. He currently serves as a member of MCC’s Peace Committee. Dr. Fernando Enns is director of studies for the Ecumenical Institute of Heidelberg University. He is a Mennonite delegate to the World Council of Churches (WCC) and a member of the WCC Central Committee. He also serves currently as vice-chairperson of the Association of German Mennonite Congregations. Dr. Duane K. Friesen (principal author of the "Just Peacemaking" study document) is professor of Bible and religion, Bethel College (Newton, Kansas). He holds a Th.D. from Harvard Divinity School in Christian social ethics, and is author of Christian Peacemaking and International Conflict: A Realist Pacifist Perspective (Herald Press, 1986), and Artists, Citizens, Philosophers: Seeking the Peace of the City (Herald Press, 2000). Dr. Scott Holland teaches peace, public, and cross-cultural theology at Bethany Theological Seminary, in partnership with Earlham School of Religion in Richmond, Indiana. He is contributing editor to Cross Currents: The Journal of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life. Dr. Sang Gyoo Lee studied at Kosin University (B.A., Th.M.), Korea Theological Seminary (M.Div.) at Presbyterian Theological College (Melbourne, Australia), and the Australian College of Theology (Th.D.). He has served as director of the Institute for Christian Thought (1993-97), dean of academic affairs (1993-97), senior chaplain (1997-2000), and is currently professor of church history at Kosin University in Pusan, Korea. His publications include History of Presbyterianism in Korea (Division of Christian Education, PCROK, 1988) and A Walk Through the History of the Reformation (Sung Kwang Pub. Co., 1997) and such articles as "The Christian Church in North Korea, 1945-1950," "The Resistance Against the Shinto Shrine Issue," "The Just War Tradition," "Calvin and Anabaptist Radicals," "Wealth: Blessing or Bane?" and "Democratization and Unification Movements in Korea." Alix Lozano was born in Bucaramanga, Colombia, South America. She holds a M.Th. and serves as director of the Seminario Bíblico Menonita de Colombia in Bogota. She has participated in various areas of ministry in the Mennonite Church of Colombia, including pastoring, teaching, and working with women who suffer violence. She writes for religious journals in Colombia on women and violence, and family violence. Dr. Moisés Mayordomo was born in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain, and grew up in Germany. He studied theology in Giessen, London, Heidelberg, and Bern, finishing in 1997 with a doctoral dissertation in New Testament studies. Currently he is assistant professor for New Testament studies in the University of Bern, Switzerland, and a member of the Mennonite church in that city. Alastair McIntosh is a Scottish Quaker, writer and campaigning academic at Edinburgh’s Center for Human Ecology. He is author of many papers on theology, ecology, community, economics (see www.AlastairMcIntosh.com), and of the books, Healing Nationhood (Curlew Productions, 2000) and Soil and Soul: People Versus Corporate Power (Aurum Press, 2001). He is a leading figure in land reform, has conducted a major national values discernment exercise in association with Scotland’s new parliament, and each year addresses 400 senior military officers on the theme of nonviolent direct action at the Joint Services Command & Staff College. Dr. Alfred Neufeld, the son of Mennonite immigrants to Filadelfia, Paraguay, studied theology in Basel, Switzerland, and in Fresno, California. He worked for fifteen years at the Instituto Bíblico Asunción (Paraguay). He holds a Doctor of Missiology degree from Basel and currently is dean of the theology faculty of the Universidad Evangélica del Paraguay, an academic confederation of Mennonite, Mennonite Brethren, and Baptist Bible seminaries. His doctoral thesis covered the area of fatalistic beliefs and worldviews in Paraguayan cultural history. Dr. Konrad Raiser served as the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches from 1993-2003. He was professor for ecumenical studies at Bochum University, and is a member of the Evangelical Church in Germany. Dr. Ann K. Riggs holds a Ph.D. from the School of Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., and M.Div and M.Th. degrees from the Divinity School, Duke University, North Carolina, a Methodist institution. She is coauthor of Introduction to Ecumenism (Paulist Press, 1998) and coeditor of the journal, Quaker Theology. She has worked in the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C., and currently serves as Associate General Secretary for Faith and Order of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. Debbie Roberts is currently campus minister at the University of LaVerne (California), where she also directs the peace studies minor. She earned her Th.M. from Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, Indiana and her M.Div. from Seattle, Washington. She is currently in a Ph.D. program in women’s studies in religion at Claremont (California) Graduate University. Dr. Daniel Ulrich is associate professor of New Testament studies at Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, Indiana. He is ordained in the Church of the Brethren, and a former pastor of the Easton (Maryland) Church of the Brethren. He holds an M.Div. degree from Bethany Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia. Dr. J. Denny Weaver is professor of religion and the Harry and Jean Yoder Scholar in Bible and Religion at Bluffton (Ohio) College and editor of the C. Henry Smith Series. He holds a B.A. from Goshen (Indiana) College, an M.Div. from Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary (Elkhart, Indiana), and a Ph.D. from Duke University (Durham, North Carolina). Recent publications include Anabaptist Theology in Face of Postmodernity: A Proposal for the Third Millennium (Pandora Press U.S., 2000), The Nonviolent Atonement (Eerdmans, 2001), and (co-edited with Gerald Biesecker-Mast), Teaching Peace and Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003). Seeking Cultures of Peace orders:
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