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.

1. Understanding Ripeness: Making and Using Hurting Stalemates.- 2. Cultivating Peace: A Practitioner's View of Deadly Conflict.- 3. Conflict Analysis: A System's Approach.- 4. The United Nations and Peacemaking.- 5. Women's Participating in Peace Processes.- 6. Indigenous Approaches to Peacemaking.- 7. Peacemaking Referendums: Advantages and Challenges for Peace Processes.- 8. Refugees, Peacemaking and Durable Solutions to Displacement.- 9. Time, Sequencing and Peace Processes.- 10. Mediation and Ending of Conflicts.- 11. Diffusion vs. Coherence: The Competitive Environment of Multiparty Mediation.- 12. Inclusivity in Peace Processes: Civil Society and Armed Groups.- 13. Negotiating Peace in the Shadows.- 14. Violence and Peace Processes.- 15. Peacemaking and Election Violence.- 16. Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex-Combatants.- 17. Security Sector Reforms.- 18. Peace Processes and their Agreements.- 19. Power Sharing after Civil Wars: Matching Problems to Solutions.- 20. Peace Accords and Human Rights.- 21. The Post-Conflict Constitution as a Peace Agreement.- 22. Transitional Justice and Peacemaking/Peacebuilding.- 23. Peace Education as a Peacemaking Tool in Conflict Zones.- 24. Post Accord Violence. 26. Everyday Economic Experiences and Peace Processes.