Azzeddine Bouhassoun
is a senior lecturer of Comparative Literature. His research areas include romantic and spiritual writings, modernism, postmodernism and postcolonial literature. He currently works on Algerian literature and is mainly interested in the postcolonial shift of ‘consciousness,’ alienation and nostalgia, and narrative strategies among Algerian writers.
Peter Bray
is a senior lecturer and programme leader for Counsellor Education in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He has recently edited a number of interdisciplinary volumes, which reflect his developing interest in the relational characteristics of client work and the transformational aspects of loss and trauma. Currently, his work considers the role that emergent spiritual experiences play in posttraumatic growth and how self-actualisation might positively intersect with concepts of heroic identity.
Aileen L.S. Buslig
is Professor of Communication Studies at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, usa. She has served both as the department chair for the Communication Studies and Theatre Art Department, and as a co-director for the Women’s and Gender Studies at Concordia. She has published research on topics including interpersonal privacy, conflict, and deception, the influence of the built environment of human behaviour, and portrayals of gender in the media.
Gražina Čiuladienė
is Doctor of Pedagogy (Social Sciences) and an Associate Professor at the Institute of Education Sciences and Social Work of Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Her research interests include social pedagogy, conflict resolution, and mediation.
Anat Klin
lectures in Journalism and Mass Communication at the Western Galilee Academic College, Bar-Ilan University. Her research areas include deviance and mass communication, culture and mass communication, health
Aniuska M. Luna
has a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution (car), graduate certificates in Peace Studies and car, and a Master in Cross-Disciplinary Studies. Her undergraduate background is in modern languages (ba in Spanish) and Latin American Studies (certificate). She currently holds the position of Research Coordinator at the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health, at Florida International University. Her research interests include peace, dehumanization, qualitative methodologies, and health care.
Rupinder Mangat
is currently a doctoral candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. For her dissertation, she is analyzing how the military communicates on social media using the Canadian Armed Forces’ use of Twitter as a case study. She is also researching how social media can be better leveraged in disaster management. She has co-authored papers on how the climate change movement uses the war metaphor to encourage climate action.
Anthony M. Ocaña
is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Leadership at Minnesota State University Moorhead. His research areas include organisational conflict and crisis communication, conflict mediation, and group communication. In addition to teaching classes in the msum School of Communication and Journalism, he serves as a committee member and advisor for the msum Dragon Leadership Program.
Marco Pedroni
is an Associate Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the eCampus University (Italy). He has taught as an Adjunct Professor at the Politecnico of Milan and the University of Bergamo, and as a Guest Lecturer for several courses and institutions, including the London College of Fashion, the Milano Fashion Institute, the Marangoni Institute, the University of Seville, the Izmir University of Economics, the Winchester School of Art, Southampton Solent University and Aalto University. He is the author of Coolhunting (Franco Angeli, 2010), the editor of From Production to Consumption: The Cultural Industry of Fashion (Inter-disciplinary, 2013), and a co-editor of Fashion Tales: Feeding the Imaginary.
Marta Rzepecka
is a lecturer at the University of Rzeszów in Poland. Her main research interest has been the American presidency, especially 20th century presidents’ foreign policy. She is an author of publications on presidential rhetoric of anti-Communism and anti-terrorism.