Wiley Blackwell Companion to Religion and Peace

Jolyon Mitchell is a Professor who specializes in Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding and the Director of the Centre for Theology and Public Issues (CTPI) at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He served as President of TRS UK (2012-18) and has worked with Jewish, Muslim and Christian religious leaders on peacebuilding projects in Jerusalem and beyond. His authored and edited books include: Religion and War (2021), Peacebuilding and the Arts (2020), The Transformations of Tragedy (2019), Promoting Peace and Inciting Violence: The Role of Religion and Media (2012), and Media Violence and Christian Ethics (2007).

Suzanna R. Millar is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Edinburgh, UK, and Associate Director of Edinburgh’s Centre for Theology and Public Issues. Her research interests include wisdom literature in the Hebrew Bible, ecological hermeneutics and non-human animals. She is the author of Genre and Openness in Proverbs 10:1-22:16 (2020).

Francesca Po is a scholar of religion specializing in contemporary religion and non-religion. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors at the Metta Center for Nonviolence in Petaluma, USA, and an educator at Mater Dei High School in Santa Ana, USA. She previously served in the US Peace Corps as well as a high school campus minister, and is the co-editor of The Study of Ministry (2019).

Martyn Percy is the 45th Dean of Christ Church, University of Oxford, UK, where he also teaches in the Faculty of Theology and Religion and tutors at the Said Business School. Between 2004 and 2014 he was the Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon in Oxford, one of the largest Anglican ordination training centers in the world. Author of many books, he writes on religion in contemporary culture and modern ecclesiology.