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.
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.

Contributors / Preface/ 1. Introduction: Linking National-Level Peacemaking with Grassroots Peacebuilding (Christopher Mitchell) / 2. A ZoPs Approach to Conflict Prevention ( Wallace Warfield and Yves-Reneé Jennings) / 3. Against the Stream: Colombian Zones of Peace under Democratic Security (Christopher Mitchell and Catalina Rojas) / 4. Colombia: From Grassroots to Elites: How Some Local Peacebuilding Initiatives Became National in Spite of Themselves (Mery Rodriguez) / 5. South Africa's Infrastructure for Peace ( Andries Odendaal) / 6. Belfast's Interfaces, Zones of Conflict or Zones of Peace (Landon E. Hancock) ./7. Zones of Peace in the South Caucasus: Polyphonic Approaches to State-Building (Irakli Zurab Kakabadze) / 8. Between Local and National Peace: Complementarity or Conflict? (Landon E. Hancock and Christopher Mitchell)