Solutions to Violence features Dr. Darren Kew and Dr. Karen Ross. Darren Kew has been a consultant on democracy and peace initiatives to the United Nations, the US Institute of Peace, USAID (US Agency for International Development), the US State Department, and to a number of NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) , including the Carter Center in a 1999 effort by former President Carter to mediate conflicts in Nigeria.
Karen Ross is an assistant professor in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance and a senior fellow at the Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development, both at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. Karen's teaching and research focuses on issues at the intersection of dialogue, peace-building, social activism, and education. She conducts basic and applied research to help understand the impact of grassroots peace-building interventions and the way these interventions fit into societal level peace-building efforts.