Edited by Douglas P. Fry, Docent and Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Abo Akademi University, Finland

Douglas P. Fry is co-director of the joint master's program in Peace, Mediation and Conflict Research at Åbo Akademi University in Vasa, Finland and an adjunct research scientist in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Fry is author of Beyond War (2007, Oxford) and The Human Potential for Peace (2006, Oxford).

David P. Barash, Department of Psychology, University of Washington.
Christopher Boehm, Departments of Biological Sciences & Anthropology,
University of Southern California.
Klaree J. Boose, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.
Sarah F. Brosnan, Georgia State University, Department of Psychology.
Marina L. Butovskaya, Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Ethnology & Anthropology.
Bram Orobio de Castro, Department of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University.
Frans B. M. de Waal, Living Links, Yerkes National Primate Research Center & Psychology Department, Emory University.
David H. Dye, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Memphis.
Kirk Endicott, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College.
Joám Evans Pim, Center for Global Nonkilling, Baixo A - Rianxo - Corunha - Galiza, Spain.
R. Brian Ferguson, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark.
Douglas P. Fry, Peace, Mediation & Conflict Research, Department of Social Sciences
Åbo Akademi University in Vasa and Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson.
Agustín Fuentes, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame.
Peter M. Gardner, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri.
Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, USA (ret.), Director, Killology Research Group.
Jonathan Haas, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL.
Major Richard J. Hughbank, USA (ret.), CMAS, CHS-IV, Graduate Homeland Security Studies, Northwestern State University of Louisiana.
Robert L. Kelly, Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming.
Maaike Kempes, Department of Developmental Psychology, Utrecht University.
Hanna Kokko, Centre of Excellence in Biological Interactions, Division of Evolution Ecology and Genetics, Research School of Biology, Australian National University.
Darcia Narvaez, Department of Psychology, University of Notre Dame.
Matthew Piscitelli, Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Paul ("Jim") Roscoe, Department of Anthropology, University of Maine.
Robert M. Sapolsky, Departments of Biological Sciences, Neurology and Neurological Sciences, and Neurosurgery, Stanford University and Institute of Primate Research, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya.
E. H. M. Sterck, Behavioural Biology, Utrecht University.
Robert W. Sussman, Department of Anthropology, Washington University.
Anna Szala, Psychology Department, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland.
Robert Tonkinson, Anthropology & Sociology, School of Social & Cultural Studies, The University of Western Australia.
Peter Verbeek, Miyazaki International College, Japan.
Michel T. Waller, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.
Frances J. White, Department of Anthropology, University of Oregon.
Michael L. Wilson, Department of Anthropology & Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota.

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