Daniel Philpott is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations.
Gerard F. Powers is Director of Catholic Peacebuilding Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is the co-editor of Peacemaking: Moral and Policy Challenges for a New World.

This will be the first volume in the Studies in Strategic Peacebuilding series. The editors have brought together fifteen leading scholars of peacebuilding to rethink the basic goals and methods of conflict resolution. The prevailing approach, the authors argue, is far too narrow. They argue instead for a holistic approach that they term strategic peacebuilding, which aims not only for stability but for a comprehensive solution that incorporates apology, forgiveness,reconciliation, and, most crucially, religion.