Research links a wide and diverse community of scholars, practitioners, and activists towards the common goal of building peace in the United States and play a key role in helping define (and create) the field of "peacebuilding in the US."

Doug Irvin-Erickson is Director of the Genocide Prevention Program at George Mason University, School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution.
Emily Sample is the Executive Director of the Genocide Prevention Program at George Mason University, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution.

Introduction: Who Builds Peace? Emily Sample
Part 1: Framing our Conversation of Peacebuilding in the United States
Chapter 1: Peacebuilding Begins at Home: A Call to U.S. Peacebuilders, Bridget Moix
Chapter 2: Social Justice as Peacebuilding in Black Churches: Where Do We Go From Here? Beverly Janet Goins
Part 2: Doing Good (?): Dialogue, Difference, and Ethical Practice
Chapter 3: What Can They Be Thinking? Fostering Dialogue Across Divides, Melinda Burrell
Chapter 4: Living Room Conversations: Identity Formation and Democracy, Jessica Shryack, Linda Taylor, Beth Raps, and Joan Blades
Chapter 5: Peacebuilding Programs in the United States: First Do No Harm, Elizabeth Hume
Part 3: Social Spaces and Social Practices of Peacebuilding
Chapter 6: Museum Education and Social Justice in Latinx Communities, Michelle Tovar
Chapter 7: Service for Peace: Working with Students and Youth to Plant the Future, Eddah Mutua
Chapter 8: Environmental In/Justice: Peacebuilding in the Anthropocene, Emily Sample
Part 4: Confronting Direct and Structural Racial Violence: The Paths Forward
Chapter 9: From Heritage Politics to Hate: Neo-Confederate Novels and White Protectionism, Danielle Christmas
Chapter 10: Legacy of Slavery: A New Approach to Reparations, Sarah Federman
Chapter 11: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in Maryland: From Narrative Change to Racial Healing, Charles Chavis, Jr.
Chapter 12: Stop Trying to Fix Policing: Lessons Learned from the Front Lines of Black Liberation, Tony Gaskew
Part 5: In the Spirit of Self Reflection: Discussions on Gender and Nation
Chapter 13: Empowered Women Empower Women: Peacebuilding in the Age of #MeToo, Shelly Clay-Robison, Melinda Burrell, Elizabeth Hume, Deena R. Hurwitz, Emily Sample and Kate E. Temoney
Chapter 14: "We Don't Need No Stinkin' Peacebuilding...": The Paradox of Order in the Shadow of Chaos, Patricia A. Maulden