Colin Salter

Dr Salter is an Assistant Professor in the Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University (Ontario). He holds a BE (hons), a BA (hons) and a PhD from the University of Wollongong in Australia. As an environmental engineer, he worked on the design and monitoring of socially, culturally, and environmentally appropriate technology projects in Australia and the Pacific.

On returning to the university sector, Dr Salter has expanded on more than a decade-long research interest, exploring the efficacy of grassroots campaigns and movements seeking to foster peace and justice. Alongside research and publications related to his previous engagement as an environmental engineer, he has presented papers and published research in areas as broad as movements supporting respect and recognition of First Peoples, the strategies and tactics of contemporary animal-environmental-social justice movements and the intersections between masculinity, exceptionalism, violence and nonviolence. Findings from five years of comparative research exploring community campaigns promoting respect and recognition in Austral and Canada will be published in 2011.