Director, Global Scholars Program
About
Benjamin Peters, Director of the Global Scholars Program, came to the University of Michigan in 2017 after working in Japan, where he was a Professor of Political Science, Dean of the School of International Liberal Arts, and Vice President of Miyazaki International College. His teaching and research are in the areas of the human right to peace and cultures of peace, Japanese and Costa Rican politics, constitutional antimilitarism, alternative defense, nationalism, and social movements.
With Peter Verbeek, he is co-editor of Peace Ethology: Behavioral Processes and Systems of Peace (Wiley, 2018), and he is a member of the Political Science Research Committee of the Center for Global Nonkilling (member-group of the World Health Organization Violence Prevention Alliance) and serves as a reviewer for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics and for The Economics of Peace and Security Journal.
