Laura Toussaint received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at American University. She serves on the Editorial Board of Societies Without Borders, the academic journal of Sociologists Without Borders.

• 1. Introduction 2. Methodology and Demographic Data 3. Participation, Identity, and Social Networks in the Peace Movement 4. The Peace Movement and the Political Opportunity Structure 5. Peace Movement Issues, Diversity, and Mobilization 6. Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Prospects for the Peace Movement 7. Conclusions

"Laura Toussaint's The Contemporary U.S. Peace Movement delivers precisely what it promises; a thorough, factual and up-to-date account of the individual activitsts that make up the peace and justice movements in the United States today. Toussaint's book is an important and timely commentary on how individuals struggle to make their voices heard in the guarded halls of foreign policy" -- Mobilization, Vol. 14, No. 4, December 2009