About the Authors of 

Working for Peace
A Handbook of Practical Psychology 
and Other Tools

Robert E. Alberti, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist and fellow of the American Psychological Association. Now semi-retired, his academic career included a tenured professorship at California Polytechnic State University.  

Anne Anderson, LICSW, has been Psychologists for Social Responsibility's Coordinator since 1984, and is the recipient of their 2005 Distinguished Contribution Award. She has a clinical social work practice with the Washington Therapy Guild in Washington, DC.

Charles T. Brown, Ph.D. (1912-2003), a long-time researcher and teacher in the field of interpersonal communication, introduced the study of conflict into the curriculum of Western Michigan University. His chapter also appeared in the 1985 edition.

Pat Bullen, B.Sc., B.A. (Hons.), is a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of Auckland New Zealand.

Shawn Meghan Burn, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology and Child Development at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Barry Childers, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist by trade (now retired), and a peace activist by choice. Barry and his wife live in Geneva, Switzerland, where he works with the International Peace Bureau and she works for the World Council of Churches.

Jane Connor, Ph.D., is director and associate professor in the Division of Human Development at Binghamton University.

Larissa G. Duncan, M.S., is a doctoral candidate in human development and family studies at Penn State University.

Scot D. Evans, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of community psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He is the cofounder of Psychologists Acting with Conscience Together (PsyACT) and researches and writes about the role of nonprofit human service organizations in social action and social change.

Donelson R. Forsyth, Ph.D., holds the Colonel Leo K. and Gaylee Thorsness Endowed Chair in Ethical Leadership in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies of the University of Richmond. He studies leadership, ethical decision making, and identity processes in groups and interpersonal settings.

Miriam L. Freeman, Ph.D., LCSW, is a professor in the College of Social Work at the University of South Carolina where she teaches social work practice with families, social work practice with groups, and the Satir Growth Model.

Carolyn Gellermann, M.A., has twenty-five years of consulting experience and is currently on the adjunct faculty in the University of Washington College of Education. In addition to degrees, including her M.A. in Organizational Development from Antioch University, Carolyn completed the MIT/Harvard Public Disputes Program and has partnered with Bill Ury, author of Getting to Yes, in the Global Negotiation Project.

Mary E. Gomes, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at Sonoma State University and coauthor, with Theodore Roszak and Allen D. Kanner, of Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind (1995, Sierra Club Books). She is co-director of Altars of Extinction, which creates memorials to species that have gone extinct at human hands.

Christopher S. Grundy received his B.A. in psychology from Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. His research interests are in social psychology, particularly as it pertains to addressing social and environmental problems.

Niki Harré, Ph.D., is a senior lecturer in social and community psychology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Susan Hawes, Ph.D., is associate professor of clinical psychology at Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, New Hampshire, where she teaches a workshop on dialog across differences, as well as courses on qualitative research, and a critical social history of psychology. She is also a member of Zen Peacemaker Circles USA.

J. W. P. Heuchert, Ph.D., is an associate professor of psychology at Allegheny College South Africa and at Boston University.

John Keating, Ph.D., is a social psychologist and Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, Parkside.

Matt Keener is a filmmaker who lives and works in Hollywood (both the town and the industry). A former corporate media consultant and documentary filmmaker, he remains active in media communications as a volunteer founding fellow at Media Action Project.

Paul W. Keller, Ph.D. (1913-2003), was a teacher of speech communication and offered courses in conflict resolution starting in 1962. He taught at Manchester College.

Susan M. Koger, Ph.D., is professor of psychology at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon. She coauthored The Psychology of Environmental Problems with Deborah Winter (2004, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). As a physiological psychologist, Sue is particularly interested in the effects of environmental toxins on brain development and function.

John W. Kraybill-Greggo, Ph.D., L.S.W., A.C.S.W., is coordinator of the Social Work Program and also coordinator of the University-wide Service-Learning Initiative Committee at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. Previously, he was co-director of the Social Justice Education Project at the University of Scranton.

Marcella J. Kraybill-Greggo, M.S.W., L.S.W., is supervisor of the Mentoring, Training and Internship Programs at Valley Youth House, Allentown, Pennsylvania. She is also a trained spiritual director and serves as a clinical director and adjunct professor in the Pastoral Counseling Program at Moravian Seminary, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

George Lakey, M.A. (Sociology), has led over 1,000 social change workshops on five continents while writing seven books and leading activist projects. His first time in jail was for a civil rights sit-in. He has taught peace studies at Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges and the University of Pennsylvania. He is founder/director of Training for Change in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: www.TrainingforChange.org. He updated his chapter from the 1985 edition of the book.

Rachel MacNair, Ph.D., majored in Peace and Conflict Studies at Earlham College, a Quaker school, and is a Quaker. She's the author of the college textbook The Psychology of Peace: An Introduction, along with other books. She's the director of the Institute for Integrated Social Analysis, research arm of Consistent Life.

Roxanne Manning, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist in Raleigh, North Carolina. She is interested in bringing Nonviolent Communication to ethnically diverse populations and to those working in social change.

Helen Margulies Mehr, Ph.D. (1916-1992), was a clinical psychologist in private practice and Chair of the Committee on Social Issues of the California State Psychological Association, and she served on the National Steering Committee of Psychologists for Social Responsibility. She is now deceased. Her chapter appeared in the 1985 edition under the title “Peace Work and Your Mental Health,” and for updating, it has been lightly edited and shortened.

Christina Maslach, Ph.D., is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of several books about burnout, as well as of the research measure, the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI).

Carol Merrick is a graduate of the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. She trained as a medical laboratory technician and a biological laboratory research technician. She has been a community organizer, activist, and speaker for twelve years. She is one of the founding members of Northwest VEG and is currently the secretary.

Christina Michaelson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist who teaches psychology at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. Her teaching and research interests include Eastern psychology, meditation, and inner peace.

Linden L. Nelson, Ph.D., is a professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology and Child Development at California Polytechnic State University. He has served as president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR) and is currently chair of PsySR’s Peace Education Action Committee.

Kurt O'Brien, M.A., is an organization development consultant, trainer, and coach with an M.A. in organization development from the University of San Francisco. He works as an internal consultant at the University of Washington Medical Center and has his own independent consulting business. He lives in Poulsbo, Washington with his wife and two children.

Brad Olson, Ph.D., is an applied social and community psychologist who is involved in and studies the psychology of community action. He presently has various roles with the Society of Community Research and Action (SCRA) as chair of the Community Action Interest Group, and as the representative to Divisions of Social Justice (DSJ) within the American Psychological Association. He is also closely involved with Psychologists Acting with Conscience Together (PsyACT) and Psychologists for Social Responsibility (PsySR).

Richard Osbaldiston, M.S., M.A., is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. His research interests (and his political activism) focus on issues of social justice and environmental problems.

Gerald D. Oster, Ph.D., at Virginia Commonwealth University since 1981, has been a licensed psychologist for over twenty years working in a variety of inpatient hospitals and outpatient centers. He is a former clinical associate professor at the University of Maryland Medical School, as well as past director of Internship Training at the Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents. Presently, he is in private practice. Besides his clinical work, he has coauthored eight books on the topics of psychological assessment and testing, clinical uses of drawing, child psychotherapy, and teenage depression.

Robert Pettit, Ph.D., is a sociologist with widespread interests ranging from religion, sexuality, and pop culture to the promotion of social justice.

Susan M. Sisk, M.S., is the cofounder of Tekoa, Inc., a group of psychological treatment facilities and alternative schools in Virginia that were designed, in part, to bring peace to the lives of emotionally disturbed adolescents and their families. She has thirty years of experience as a counselor, nondenominational minister, and mother to three children and two stepchildren and has recently become a grandmother.

John Sommers-Flanagan, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, clinical consultant at Trapper Creek Job Corps, and counselor educator at the University of Montana. John provides continuing education workshops nationally and internationally. He’s an aspiring farmer and devoted advocate for peace.

Rita Sommers-Flanagan, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, farmer, peace activist, and counselor educator at the University of Montana. She and her husband, John, have raised two intense, radical, and globally concerned daughters.

Together, John and Rita are the authors of many articles and books, including Tough Kids, Cool Counseling; Problem Child or Quirky Kid; Clinical Interviewing; Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques; and, with their older daughter Chelsea Elander, Don’t Divorce Us! Kids’ Advice to Divorcing Parents.

Jo Young Switzer, Ph.D., serves as president of Manchester College in Indiana. She updated her chapter from the 1985 edition of Working for Peace.

Deborah Du Nann Winter, Ph.D., taught psychology at Whitman College for thirty years before retiring in 2006 to the Big Island of Hawaii where she performs community service. She served as president of Psychologists for Social Responsibility and has written or edited books on the psychology of environmental problems and peace psychology.

Neil Wollman, Ph.D., is senior fellow of the Peace Studies Institute and Professor of Psychology, Manchester College. He is an activist and psychologist who believes the time has come for people to pool their knowledge and resources to work for a better world. Neil was the editor of the 1985 edition of Working for Peace and his chapters and introduction are updates of those that appeared in that volume.

Gary A. Zimmerman, Ph.D., is chair of the Psychology Department and for over twenty years has taught both conflict resolution and mediation courses in the Peace Studies program at Manchester College. He continues to learn from young people, especially his grandchildren, about peacemaking and finding laughing matters. He updated his chapter from the 1985 edition of Working for Peace.