J. David Pulsipher is a professor of history at Brigham Young University–Idaho, where he leads its program in peace and conflict transformation and is also a practicing mediator. He is the author of When We Don’t See Eye to Eye: Using the Weapon of Love to Overcome Anger and Aggression (Covenant Communications, 2014) and editor, with Patrick Mason and Richard Bushman, of War and Peace in Our Time: Mormon Perspectives (Greg Kofford Books, 2012). He and his wife, Dawn, live in Rexburg, Idaho, and they are the parents of six children.