Tom H. Hastings, Ed.D., is full-time faculty for the graduate program in Conflict Resolution at Portland State University. He is on the Governing Council of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), past co-chair of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, and is on the boards of both the IPRA Foundation and the Oregon Peace Institute, as well as the Academic Advisory Board of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict. He directs PeaceVoice, a program of OPI, and has written several books and many articles about nonviolence and other peace and conflict topics. He is a former Plowshares resister and a founding member of two Catholic Worker communities and currently lives in Whitefeather Peace House.