Dr Marty Branagan has engaged in participant-observer research into nonviolent environmental, peace, and social justice movements since 1983. He has published widely, including the monograph Global Warming, Militarism and Nonviolence: The Art of Active Resistance, and two nonviolent action novels, with his most recent being the illustrated cli-fi novel Locked On!, based on contemporary climate action. He is Senior Lecturer and Convenor of Peace Studies at the University of New England, Australia.