Adrienne P. Lamberti is Associate Professor of Languages & Literatures at the University of Northern Iowa, USA, where she also directs the university’s Professional Writing program. Dr. Lamberti has published extensively on the rhetoric of professional communication, especially concerning the production side of agriculture. Anne R. Richards is Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University, USA, where she directs the Peace Studies program. Dr. Richards was a founding faculty of the KSU International Conflict Management Program and has served as a Fulbright Fellow and Specialist in Tunisia and the Philippines.

• 1. Dynamic Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Conflict and Communication; Adrienne Lamberti and Anne Richards.- 2. Are There Ways That Digital Technologies Break Down Walls of Communication During Conflict? Lessons from Leaders of a Women’s Movement in Egypt; Ziaul Haque and Joseph Bock.- 3. Is Mediation Too ‘Feminine’ for Him? Men and Masculinity During Mediation Communication; Brett Butler and Aza Howard Butler.- 4. The Conflict of Genre: Disciplinary Terminology and Conceptual Overlap in the Context of the Annual Report; Marcy Leasum Orwig and Anish Dave.