Timothy Seidel is assistant professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences and the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, and director of the Center for Interfaith Engagement at Eastern Mennonite University.

Mohammed Abu-Nimer is professor of international peace and conflict resolution and director of the Peacebuilding and Development Institute at the School of International Service, American University.

Timothy Seidel is assistant professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences and the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding, and director of the Center for Interfaith Engagement at Eastern Mennonite University.

Ori Z. Soltes teaches at Georgetown University across a range of disciplines, from theology and art history to philosophy and political history.

Sophia Pandya is Professor and Department Chair of Religious Studies at California State University at Long Beach, USA. She is author of Muslim Women and Islamic Resurgence: Religion, Education, and Identity Politics in Bahrain (2012). Having carried out extensive field research in Turkey, she co-edited The Gülen Hizmet Movement and its Transnational Activities: Case Studies on Charitable Activism (2012).

Abdul Karim Bangura is Researcher-in Residence of Abrahamic Connections and Islamic Peace Studies at American University's Center for Global Peace, USA.