Mediating Peace

Professor Sebastian Kim holds the Chair in Theology and Public Life in the Faculty of Education and Theology at York St John University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society and the Editor of the International Journal of Public Theology. His publications include In Search of Identity: Debates on Religious Conversion in India (2003), Theology in the Public Sphere (2011), Christianity as a World Religion (2008) and A History of Korean Christianity (2014). Professor Pauline Kollontai is Professor of Higher Education in Theology and Religious Studies at York St John University. Her academic qualifications are in the disciplines of Peace Studies and Theology and Religious Studies. Her recent publications include Building Communities of Reconciliation: Christian Theologies of Peace and Reconciliation (edited by P.C.H. Kollontai and V. Nesfield, 2012).Dr Sue Yore is a Senior Lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at York St John University, and teaches a broad range of subjects, including Islam, Anthropology of Religion, and Religion and the Arts. Her main areas of research relate to the mystical and prophetic role of literature as explored in her book The Mystic Way in Postmodernity (2009).