ames W. McAuley is Emeritus Professor of Political Sociology and Irish Studies at the University of Huddersfield, Visiting Professor in Political Sociology at Leeds Beckett University, Adjunct Full Professor of Politics and International Relations, University College Dublin and Honorary Research Fellow in Political Psychology at Liverpool Hope University.

Máire Braniff is Senior Lecturer in Politics at Ulster University, Belfast. She focuses her research and teaching on the changes which contribute to building sustainable peace and thriving societies.

Graham Spencer is Emeritus Professor in Social and Political Conflict at the University of Portsmouth UK, Distinguished Senior Research Fellow, Edward M. Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention, NUI, Maynooth, Ireland and Visiting fellow, John McCormack Graduate Scholl of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston.