The Group on International Perspectives on Governmental Aggression and Peace

The Group on International Perspectives on Governmental Aggression and Peace - GIPGAP Project Supervisor / Faculty Advisor
Personal Website Curriculum Vitae	Kathleen Malley-Morrison, Ed.D., Director of the Group on International Perspectives on Governmental Aggression and Peace (GIPGAP), is a Professor of Psychology at Boston University. With the support of grants from the NIMH she conducted several studies of family relationships with a particular focus on the transition from late adolescence into adulthood. She has also conducted extensive research on family violence since 1980 when she was a postdoctoral fellow on the family violence team at Children's Hospital in Boston. She regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses focusing on the family and on family violence, as well as a course on the Psychology of War and Peace. She is the first author of several books, including Treating Child Abuse and Family Violence in Hospitals with Eli Newberger, Richard Bourne, and Jane Snyder, and Family Violence in a Cultural Perspective with Denise Hines. She is the editor of the book International Perspectives on Family Violence and Abuse: A Cognitive Ecological Approach. She is co-author, with Denise Hines, of Family Violence in the United States and, with Anne Copeland, of the Sage book Studying Families. Her current focus is primarily on cross-cultural and international perspectives on governmental aggression and peace. She is editing a four-volume series of books for Praeger Security International on *State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People.*
Research Team Members (in alphabetical order)
Curriculum Vitae	Abdelkader Abdelali, Ph.D. has his Ph.d from Alger, he is a lecturer at Saida university: Dr tahar Moulay, in Algeria. The Main areas of interest are comparative politics, religion politics, Arab and Middle East politics, International relations theories.
	Jacqui Akhurst, Ph.D has a Ph.D. from South Africa. She is a senior lecturer at York St John University, York, England. She was formerly a senior lecturer in Psychology in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and worked extensively with trainee and in-service teachers, school counselors and school psychologists. She has published articles about the impact of apartheid on education and counseling. Her research interests are in the fields of community psychology, student development in Higher Education, career psychology and adolescent mental health and wellbeing. Jacqui is currently co-authoring the South Africa chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Kareem AlObaidi, Ph.D. Dr Abdul Kareem AlObaidi is a consultant psychiatrists and child psychiatrist; he is the founder and the chairman of Iraqi Association for Child Mental Health (IACMH). He has been awarded the International Membership at both the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK) and the American Academy for Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACCAP), and he is the Iraqi representative at International Society for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN). Main areas of interest are promotion of child mental health and child protection in Iraq. He is struggling to secure his family and himself from the current threats in his country and serving his society, on June 2007 he has addressed a direct appeal to the UN secretary general over the plight of children in his home country, warning that the violence there was causing widespread emotional and behavioural damage - and could lead to spiralling violence in the future. Dr AlObaidi, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Iraq chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series. Contact info: kareemobedy60@yahoo.com
	Flavia Angelino currently resides in Argentina. She is a licensed Sociologist, receiving her title from the Faculty of Social Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires. She has participated in research across many topics. She attends and participates in many conferences, including some based on the genocide that occurred in Argentina’s history. She has assisted in the writing of two books, one discussing the bio-psycho-social view of adolescence and another on Internet use by youths.
	Ricardo Angelino, M.D.
	Majed Ashy, M.A., Ph.D. from Saudi Arabia, is a research Fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard University Medical School/McLean Hospital and a lecturer in Psychology at Boston university. Dr. Majed's research focus on the effects of stress and childhood experiences on brain development and later physical and psychological health. His work also covers various cross cultural issues in psychology. Majed is currently authoring the Saudi Arabia chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Davies Banda, is a Senior Lecturer in Sports Policy and Development at York St John University in North Yorkshire, England. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy at Loughborough University focussing on the role of sport National Governing Bodies and NGOs in Zambia’s multi-sectoral approach to fighting HIV/AIDS. His research interests are centred on the use of sport as a tool for social change. He has previously worked for Sheffield Hallam University on a national research team that was commissioned by the UK Home Office to monitor and evaluate the impact of sports initiatives as tool for social inclusion and community cohesion. He also worked for Loughborough University on a project commissioned by the International Olympic Committee focussing on the role of women on national Olympic committees. Davies is currently co-authoring the Zambia chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Rodrigo Barahona , Psya. D., LADC-1, from Costa Rica, is a certified psychoanalyst in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts, and director and supervisor at the Latino Partial Hospital at the Arbour Hospital . He is a faculty member at The Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and adjunct faculty at the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies in San Jose, Costa Rica. Rodrigo is currently authoring the Costa Rica chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Ana Barbeiro, M.A., from Portugal, graduated in Psychology from Porto University and got her Masters Degree in Justice Psychology from Minho University, with a dissertation focused on an ecological approach to youth transgression. She also post graduated on Human Rights and Democracy, from Coimbra University, and she is a student member of the Portuguese Society of Client Centred Psychotherapy. She is a teaching assistant at Piaget Institute, Portugal, and she is doing her Ph.D. at Minho University, on the subject of lay people discourses and representations of human rights and institutional violence. She is working with Carla Machado in the research team on Portuguese attitudes towards state violence.
	Mariana Barbosa, from Portugal, is a teaching assistant at the Catholic University of Portugal. She is doing her Ph.D at Minho University, studying the Portuguese perspectives on state violence, by exploring the citizens' judgments, but also the mass media and political discourse on this issue. In 2007 she was in Boston University as a visiting scholar, under the supervision of professor Kathleen Malley-Morrison and collaborating with the GIPGAP team. She will be co-author with Dr. Beth Leembruggen-Kallberg on the German chapter in the series of four books to be published by Praeger International Security.
	Scott Edward Borrelli, Ed.D., from the United States, received his Ed.D. in Counseling Psychology from Boston University in 1979. He is a licensed psychologist (MA, CA, FL), Diplomate/Board Certified in clinical psychology, counseling psychology, and medical psychology, and is the Chief Editor of the online European journal, The EMDR Practitioner. For nearly two decades, he has been living in Europe teaching and working with multi-cultural populations as a faculty member of Boston University and now the University of Maryland. Scott is currently co-authoring the Spain chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Helena Castanheira, P.G. Helena Castanheira is currently co-authoring the Spain chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series. Helena has a post graduate degree in business management from ISCTE University in her native Portugal and a BA in Psychology and Management. Her research interests are in the areas of moral disengagement theory and transitional justice systems and reconciliation processes in post conflict situations. She has published in the International Psychology Bulletin and in the Peace Psychology Newsletter. Helena joined GIPGAP in 2006 and is currently working as a Lab Manager for Kathleen Malley-Morrison.
	Nina Carstens, B.A. has her Bachelor of Economic Sciences degree, with majors in Marketing and Industrial Psychology, and has furthered to clinical psychology with another two years of study. Nina's interests as a student and an individual include studying how microeconomics evolves into a macroeconomic perspective, and the decisions of few affect the lives of many.
	Amanda Clinton, M.Ed., Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Puerto Rico who specializes in violence prevention, culture and bilingualism, learning disabilities, and early childhood. She is a credentialed school psychologist and a licensed psychologist with experience in educational, hospital, and clinic settings in addition to research and teaching. Dr. Clinton was previously awarded a Fellowship by the Organization of American States and recognized as a Fulbright Scholar. She has published articles in English and Spanish regarding learning, behavior, and violence prevention issues and is currently spear-heading research projects based in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, as well as Puerto Rico. Amanda is currently authoring the Nicaragua and Colombia chapters in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Michael Corgan, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Iceland chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Mahlon B. Dalley, Ph.D. is currently authoring the Botswana chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Maria Daskalopoulos, from Greece, received her B.A. in psychology from Boston University in 2005. She has co-authored journal articles on Greek, Italian and English perspectives on elder abuse.
Curriculum Vitae	Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the South Africa chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Helena Syna Desivilya, Ph.D. - an associate professor - is the head of the Sociology and Anthropology department at the Max Stern Academic College of Emek Yezreel. She is a social organizational psychologist by training. She conducts research on interpersonal and inter-group relations in organizations (including conflict management) and in the community, focusing especially on the effects of personal factors such as gender and ethnic or national origin on the intra and inter-group dynamics. She is an active member of the International Association for Conflict Management, a member of the editorial board of Conflict Resolution Quarterly, International Journal for Conflict Management and Negotiation and Conflict Management Research. She has published her research on conflict in various journals, such as Journal of Social Issues, Journal of Peace Research, International Journal for Conflict Management and Organization Studies and book chapters in the area of management and collaborative research. Helena is currently co-authoring the Israel chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Eros DeSouza, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Peru chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Regina Estuar, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Philippines chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
Curriculum Vitae	Maria Galmarini, B.A., was born in Argentina and currently lives in the United States. She has Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Boston University. She is currently working towards a Masters in Mental Health Counseling at Nova Southeastern University in Florida.
	Lauren M. Groves, MBA, from the United States, received her B.S. in Finance with minors in Computer Science and Philosophy in 2003, and MBA with a concentration in Data Analysis in 2004 from Bentley College. She is currently the Assistant Lab Manager and Director of Communications for GIPGAP.
	Asifa Hasan, M.S. is an Assistant Professor at the National Defence University (NDU) Islamabad, Pakistan. She is currently assisting in establishing the department of Governance and Public Policy at NDU, which is expected to become operational in September 2008. Alongside she is engaged in conducting a research study of the growing trends of talibanisation as a result of the decimation of governance structures in the North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan. Recently Asifa worked as Editor Reports at Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN), Pakistan and authored some of the weekly pre-election monitoring reports for the General Election 2008. She also co-authored the final Election Monitoring Report, covering all phases of the General Election 2008. Previously Asifa worked as a Research Fellow at Mahbub ul Haq Human Development Centre, Islamabad, where she researched various aspects of political and economic governance in South Asia. Asifa has also taught a graduate course on Political Governance in South Asia as part of the visiting faculty in the department of International Affairs at the International Islamic University Islamabad. Asifa holds an MS in Global Affairs from Rutgers University, and is currently co-authoring the Pakistan chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Denise Hines, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the United States: Ethnic Minorities chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Etsuko Hoshino-Browne, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College. Being born and raised in Japan, educated in Canada for her honors BA and Ph.D., and now working in the US, she has unique cultural and ethnical backgrounds and has extensive experiential insight into the workings of three cultures. Taking advantage of this relatively unique and privileged position among North American researchers, she has a passionate interest in examining social psychological processes from cultural perspectives. Her published research includes cross-cultural examinations on cognitive dissonance and social perspective taking. She also has a great interest in prejudice and intergroup relations and has published research on stereotype activation and application processes.
Personal Website	Jas Laile Suzana Binti Jaafar, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Malaysia chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Mikyung Jang, Ph.D., from Korea, received her Ph.D. in psychology from Boston University. Her dissertation, under the supervision of Professors Deborah Belle and Kathleen Malley-Morrison, focused on parenting style and social support network. She has published several articles in the area of elder abuse and social support networks and has worked most recently as a research associate at the Research Institute of Human Behavior at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. Mikyung is currently co-authoring the Korea chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Linda Jeffrey, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Iraq chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Janice Jones, Ph.D. is currently authoring the Laos chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Mohammad Shahid Kamal, M.D. is currently authoring the Pakistan chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
Curriculum Vitae	Charles H. Kennedy Ph.D., M.P.P. Hank Kennedy has been in the Department of Political Science at Wake Forest University since 1985. Previously he taught at Bowdoin College. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1979. He also holds an MPP in public policy from Duke. Professor Kennedy has written about South Asian comparative political and governmental systems since 1975 and has conducted field research in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India. He served as the Director of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies from 1988-2001; and was the institute’s Secretary from 1982-1988. He has written or edited eleven books, which deal with South Asia. His most recent include: Pakistan: 2005 (Oxford University Press, 2006); Pakistan at the Millennium (Oxford University Press, 2003), and Government and Politics in South Asia 6th edition (Westview Press, in press 2008). Professor Kennedy also has a long-standing teaching interest in the issues of political Islam, and in US foreign policy with respect to the Middle East and South Asia. During his career he has been the recipient of three Senior Fulbright Research awards. He is a member of the Kashmir Studies Group. Hank is currently co-authoring the Pakistan chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Mi-Sung Kim, M.A., from Korea, has an M.A in Child Psychology & Education, Sung Kyun Kwan Univ., Seoul, Korea, 2000. Her Master's thesis is on mother-child interaction and emotional understanding. Mi-Sung is currently co-authoring the Korea chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Mark Leach, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the South Africa chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Elisabeth (Beth) Leembruggen-Kallberg, Ed.D., graduated from Boston University, with post graduate studies in counseling psychology at the University of Maryland. Her dissertation, chaired by Dr Len Zaichkowsky of Boston University, focused on identity development in 'multiple cultured' women. She has written on cross cultural adjustment, the role of religious coping & spirituality in cross cultural adaptation and identity development. She teaches lifespan development, counseling, ethics, and family systems at Azusa College, Free University, Amsterdam. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Beth has lived in five cultures (Sri Lanka, USA, Belgium, Germany, The Netherlands) and traveled throughout Africa, Austral- Asia, North America and Europe. As a member of the minority Burgher community in Sri Lanka, she has had opportunity to experience issues of cross cultural adaptation first hand. She married in Munich, studied at the universities of Tuebingen and Mainz and lived continuously in Germany from 1983-1997. She has also co-authored a text on German life and culture. She has presented at the American Counselling Association, the German Psychologists of Religion and the Netherlands Research School of Women's Studies. Elizabeth is currently co-authoring the Germany chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Graham Lindegger, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the South Africa chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Carla Machado, Ph.D. is currently authoring the Portugal chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
Personal Website	Raquel Matos is a lecturer at the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the Catholic University of Portugal, where she teaches research methods and justice psychology. She worked as a researcher in several projects about victims of violence, but her research interests are now focused on gender and crime and on state violence. She has recently finished her doctoral dissertation about life trajectories of young women in Portuguese prisons and she is now researching Portuguese attitudes towards state violence.
	Sheri McCarthy, Ph.D. is currently authoring the Brazil and Russia chapters in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Rick McNeese, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae	Andrea Mercurio, Ph.D. is currently authoring the integrative conclusion chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Heyam Mohammed, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Kuwait chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
Curriculum Vitae	Alice Murata, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Japan chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Nyryan V. Nolido, M.A. is currently co-authoring the Philippines chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Silja Bára Ómarsdóttir, Ph.D. is the director of the Institute of International Affairs and Centre for Small State Studies at the University of Iceland, as well as adjunct lecturer in the university’s Department of Political Science. She completed her BA (departmental honors) in International Affairs from Lewis & Clark College and an MA in International Relations from the University of Southern California. Ms. Ómarsdóttir has written and produced a radio program on international affairs and is an activist for women’s rights, having served on the National Committee of UNIFEM in Iceland, the Feminist Association and the Icelandic Women’s Rights Association. Additionally, she is currently co-authoring the Iceland chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
On-line Publications	Dr. James Page (Jim Page) is an Australian academic working with Southern Cross University. Dr Page has taught within the field of peace and conflict studies and holds a PhD in peace education. He has also published widely in peace research and education, and his book Peace Education: Exploring Ethical and Philosophical Foundations is due for publication later this year with Information Age Publishing. Jim is currently authoring the Australia chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series. Contact info: jamessmithpage@hotmail.com
	Nebojsa Petrovic, Ph.D. is currently authoring the Serbia chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Dr. Marko Polič is professor of general and environmental psychology at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. He is active in the fields of Environmental Psychology, Psychological Aspects of Disasters, Economic and Traffic Psychology and was engaged in a number of international and Slovenian research projects.
	Ellora Puri, M.Phil. is an Assistant Professor/Lecturer in the Dept. of Political Science, the University of Jammu, India. She did her graduate work in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is an MA/M.Phil in Political Science. Her research interests primarily include: issues of political violence, identity politics, and gender, specifically in the context of South Asian politics. Ellora is currently co-authoring the India chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Kimberly Rapoza, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Mercy College's Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences. She received her B.A. from The University of Massachusetts and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Boston University. While a graduate student at Boston University, she studied with Dr. Kathleen Malley-Morrison, a leading researcher in the area of family violence. During that time she received a Clara Mayo Fellowship to support her dissertation work which explored correlates and predictors of dating violence in young adult couples. Her research interests encompass the impact of interpersonal violence on physical and psychological wellness, substance use and attachment styles. Examining the definitions, prevalence and conceptualizations of abuse within both a domestic cross-cultural and international arena are also topics of current interest. Currently, Dr. Rapoza has received an EARDA pilot grant from the National Institute of Health to investigate the relationship between chronic stress, social support, attachment and physical/psychological illness. She has also received a RIMI sub-project grant from the National Institute of Health to further explore a multi-component model assessing psycho-social and physiological mechanisms that might underlie compromised psychological and/ or physical health, particularly for women and ethnic minority populations. Kimberly is currently authoring the England chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
Personal Website Curriculum Vitae	Megan Reif M.A., holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Wake Forest University, where she was a research assistant for three years under the director of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan completing a dissertation in comparative politics on election intimidation and violence and a certificate in Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Minoring in world politics with a cognate field in Middle East and Islamic Studies, her research addresses relationships between institutions, democratization, and political violence and terrorism. She has conducted dissertation fieldwork in Algeria, Pakistan, and Newark, New Jersey. As part of her dissertation research, Reif collaborated with Pakistan’s Free and Fair Election Network in its election violence media monitoring and Parallel Vote Tabulation during the 2008 National Assembly election. Reif also the pre-election Pakistan Voter Education Survey and Report published The Asia Foundation. Megan is currently co-authoring the Pakistan chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
Curriculum Vitae	Eddy Carrillo R., from San Jose, Costa Rica, received his M.A. from Teachers Collage, Columbia University in Developmental Psychology, his M.Sc. in Mental Health Counselling from Nova University, Florida, and his B.A. in Psychology at the Universidad Autonoma Monterrey, Costa Rica. He is professor of Clinical Psychology at the Universidad Independiente and Director of the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies of the Association for Socio-Critical Psychoanalysis in Costa Rica. He is also Clinical Trainer and Supervisor at the Manuel Fajardo Psychiatric Ward in Havana, Cuba. His main research interests lie in the interplay between socio-cultural/ideological factors and psychoanalytic clinical practice. Contact info: ecarrillo65@yahoo.com Tel: (506) 2232-2490/ 2203-3358
	Christine Roland-Lévy, Ph.D., from France. Senior Lecturer, HDR, in psychology, University Paris Descartes. PhD in Psychology in 1980; HDR in social psychology in 2000; Qualified professor in 2002, 16th division of the National Committee, CNU. Member of the Research Laboratory of Applied Psychology, CRP, LPA, ‘Stress, Health, Society’, EA 3793, University of Rheims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA). Responsible of the Research Programme « Stress, Representations and Socialisation ». Head Manager at the European level of the on-line Masters « Citizenship Education in Europe ». President-Elect of CiCea, Children’s Identity and Citizenship European Association (2006-2008). Christine is currently authoring the France chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
Publications	R.S. Rose, Ph.D. was educated at California State University, Long Beach and received both a MS and Ph.D. from the University of Stockholm in Sweden. Bob has published several articles and a number of books, and is currently co-authoring the Brazil chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Maki Sakuma is currently a freshman at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, and will be contributing to GIPGAP as an intern in 2009.
	Mathilde Salmberg, Psy.D. is originally from Sweden and moved to the United States in 1998 to pursue undergraduate studies in psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She subsequently completed a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at the George Washington University in Washington DC. She completed her pre-doctoral internship at the University of Virginia and her post-doctoral fellowship at Georgetown University. Mathilde currently serves as a staff psychologist at Georgetown University, specializing in clinical work and outreach with international students. Her professional interests include cross-cultural research, cross-cultural adjustment, eating disorders and issues related to self care. Mathilde also serves as the co-chair for the Early Career Committee of APA's Division for International Psychology (Div. 52) and as a Mentor Coordinator for the Division 52 Mentoring Committee. Mathilde is currently authoring the Sweden chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Natoschia Scruggs, M.A. received her BA in international studies from York College of Pennsylvania and an MA in political science with a focus on African studies from Boston University. She is currently a Fulbright Fellow in Egypt and a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. She has lived in or traveled through ten African nations. Natoschia is currently authoring the Egypt chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Darshini Shah, M.A. is currently co-authoring the India chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Stephen Shalom, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the United States: European Americans chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Syafuan Rozi Soebhan, M.S. is currently authoring the Indonesia chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Stephen Soldz, Ph.D is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and public health researcher. He is the Director of the Center for Research, Evaluation and Program Development at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis and a faculty member in BGSP's Institute for the Study of Violence and Culture and a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts, Boston Sociology Department. Dr. Soldz has consulted to several states on the evaluation of public health programs. He is the author of over 80 professional publications, co-editor of Reconciling Empirical Knowledge and Clinical Experience: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy (APA Books, 2000), and on several editorial boards including Journal of Research Practice, Psychotherapy Research, and Psychotherapy and Politics International. He is a prolific writer on social issues for such web sites as CounterPunch, ZNet, OpEdNews, Dissident Voice, Scoop, and his own blog Psyche, Science, and Society among others. He is co-hair of the Psychologists for Social Responsibility End Torture Action Committee and a founder of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology. Stephen is currently co-authoring the United States: European Americans chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Michael Stevens, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Peru chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Sarah Stuart received her B.A. in psychology with a minor in statistics from Boston University. She is currently a research associate for a nonmelanoma skin cancer study at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Northern California Institute for Research and Education. Previous research experience includes coding spontaneous imitation for the Boston University Twin Study and working as a research assistant for a cognitive psychologist at the University of East London. During her work with the International Perspectives in Family Violence she researched and presented perspectives of elder abuse in Nicaragua. Sarah is currently co-authoring the England chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Shiho Takagi, MSW from Japan, received her MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work in 2007 and has her BA in Psychology from Boston University. She previously worked on the Japanese, Korean and Taiwainese sibling abuse research and presented research findings at the Eastern Psychological Association Convention in 2005. Shiho is currently co-authoring the Japan chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	William J. Tastle, Ph.D. received his PhD in advanced technology with specialization in systems science from the Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science of the State University of New York, University Center at Binghamton (1994) and an MBA in MIS (1983) from the School of Management at Binghamton. He is a professor of information systems in the business school at Ithaca College and is active in the IS community having served as the president of the Association for Information Technology Professionals, Education Special Interest Group (EDSIG), treasurer of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, and on many other committees. He is the managing editor of the International Journal of General Systems and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change. Currently he is organizing the 2008 conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society. He is a Visiting Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Visiting Research Professor at the University of Iceland. Dr. Tastle's current areas of interest involve measures of consensus, dissention, agreement and disagreement, requirements analysis elicitation, and IT/IS outsourcing. Bill is currently co-authoring the Lebanon chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Elina Tochilnikova is currently co-authoring the Russian chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People, for the Greenwood Publishing Group, Praeger series. She holds a B.A. from Boston University in Psychology with a minor in Sociology. Her research interests are in the areas of resiliency, forgiveness, cross-cultural justice, and the relationship between intrapersonal and interpersonal peace.
	Abram Trosky - The recipient of Boston University's highest academic scholarship, The Presidential University Graduate Fellowship, Abram Trosky has been Presidential University Teaching Fellow for the department's introductory courses in Political Science, American Politics, International Relations, and History of American Foreign Policy. He has solo taught Introduction to Political Theory and guest lectured for Modern Political Theory. A product of St. Johns College Graduate Institute's Great Books Program and a University Scholar in Philosophy at Washington and Lee University, Abram has been steeped in Classical Political Theory and Socratic-style pedagogy but has an abiding interest in international relations and postmodern political thought. He has studied abroad at the University of Melbourne under the auspices of The Ashworth Centre for Social Theory and in the U.K. as a junior fellow of the English-Speaking Union. Abram passed his qualifying examinations in February 2008 and is currently in Vienna as a visiting junior fellow of the Institute for Human Sciences where he will be researching the matrices between cosmopolitanism, cognitive development and moral philosophy for his dissertation proposal.
	Charikleia A. Tsatsaroni, MSc., EdM., from Greece, received a BA with major in Psychology (1994) and a Master’s Degree in School Psychology (1999) from the University of Athens (Greece). Also, she earned a Master’s Degree in Counseling from Boston University (2001) and a Certificate of the Special Postgraduate Training Program (Presidential Decree 1233/1981 article 28) in Management and Social Planning in the Field of Drug Dependence/ Addiction Treatment (2006), from the Greek National School of Public Health (Medical School of Athens) and The Therapy Centre for Dependent Individuals (KETHEA) in collaboration with the Department of Psychiatry of the University of California, San Diego and the Section of Social Work of Boston College. Charikleia has worked in a variety of settings with diverse groups of children, adolescents, and adults as an intern, volunteer, educator, coordinator, psychologist, counselor, and also as supervisor of specific projects, practicum and research. She currently works as Head of the Department of Human Resource Training and Development of the Greek Organization Against Drugs (OKANA) and Educational Head of the European Subproject tilted “Integrated Interventions Targeting Special Disadvantaged Groups (Former substance/drug users or people in drug dependence treatment)” for OKANA. Her research interests are in the areas of violence and social justice, and more specifically in the areas of family violence and child/ adolescent abuse.
	Feryal Turan, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Turkey chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Doe West, Ph.D., Native American - USA, received her Ph.D. from Northeastern University in the interdisciplinary program 'Law, Policy and Society.' She has presented and been published in the fields of bioethics, psychology and sociology. She brings 22 years clinical experience and 30 years work as a social justice advocate to her work in diversity issues. She is currently teaching courses at Boston University and serving as a Research Consultant with Columbia University. Doe is currently authoring the Canada chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	John M. Whiteley, Ed.D. is Professor of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine. His most recent scholarship involves the peace building implications of the transboundary ethnic/national disputes in the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union. His teaching focuses on the problem of peace in the nuclear age, the nuclear environment, and the issues of global sustainability associated with the interrelationship of health and environment. He is the coauthor (with Russell J. Dalton, Paula Garb, Nicholas P. Lovrich, and John C. Pierce) of Critical Masses: Citizen, Nuclear Weapon Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States and Russia (MIT Press). He is an editor and contributor to Water, Place, and Equity (MIT Press). He is the creator of the "Quest for Peace Project," a comprehensive set of interviews on the problems of achieving peace in the nuclear age. This project is available electronically at http://www.lib.uci.edu/quest/.
Curriculum Vitae	Michael Whitely, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Northern Ireland chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Alev Yalçinkaya, Ph.D., is currently an Assistant Professor at Yeditepe University, Istanbul. She received her B.A. in Psychology and her M.A. in Clinical Psychology at Bosphorus University, Istanbul. She obtained her Ph.D. from Boston University where she also worked as a Lecturer. She worked at University of Connecticut, School of Family Studies, as a Postdoctoral Fellow and taught at University of Massachusetts Boston, Department of Psychology. Her research interests include cross-cultural studies of family and close relationships, including attachment theory, family violence, as well as childrearing among migrant families. She is the author of the chapter “Family Violence in Turkey” in the book International Perspectives on Family Violence and Abuse: A Cognitive Ecological Approach edited by Kathleen Malley-Morrison, as well as co-author of the Turkey chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Dalit Yassour-Borochowitz, Ph.D. is currently co-authoring the Israel chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Rouba Youssef, M.A. is currently co-authoring the Lebanon chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.
	Tanvi Zaveri, M.A. received her M.A. in international relations and B.A. in psychology and sociology from Boston University. Her thesis focused on moral disengagement and perspectives of invasion, torture, killing civilians to fight terrorism, and breaking international law from Peru, the US, and Lebanon. She has also researched and presented cross-cultural attitudes towards family violence, governmental aggression, and peace. Tanvi is currently co-authoring the United States: Ethnic Minorities chapter in the upcoming State Violence and the Right to Peace: An International Survey of the Views of Ordinary People Greenwood Publishing Group / Praeger series.