Roger Mac Ginty is Professor at the School of Government and International Affairs, and Director of the Durham Global Security Institute, both at Durham University, UK. He edits the journal Peacebuilding, is co-founder of the Everyday Peace Indicators, and his latest book is Everyday Peace: How So-called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict (2021).

Anthony Wanis-St. John is Associate Professor at the School of International Service at American University, USA, where he directed the International Peace and Conflict Resolution program. His latest book is Back Channel Negotiation: Secrecy in Middle East Peacemaking (2011). He co-wrote “Negotiating Civil Resistance,” with Noah Rosen, and “Civil Society and Peace Negotiations: Confronting Exclusion,” with Darren Kew. He works with both the U.S. Institute of Peace and the Department of Defense as senior advisor and instructor.