Landon E. Hancock is Assistant Professor of Conflict Management and Political Science at Kent State University, USA. The author of several articles on ethnic conflict and on Northern Ireland, he is the coeditor with Christopher Mitchell of Zones of Peace (2007). He as awarded a Peace Scholar fellowship from the United States Institute of Peace for his dissertation, Peace from the People: Identity Salience and the Northern Irish Peace Process. Christopher Mitchell is Professor Emeritus of Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, USA. Previously, he taught in England at University College London, Southampton University, and at the City University in London. He also served as Director of the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University and is the author of The Structure of International Conflict.