Professor Douglas P. Fry has recently returned to the United States to Chair the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He also maintains an affiliation with Åbo Akademi University in Vasa (Vaasa), Finland. Doug Fry is a passionate teacher and is known by his students for his somewhat unusual sense of humor. He received Åbo Akademi University's teaching excellence award in 2005 and regularly weaves anecdotes and human interest tidbits into his lectures and writings on war and peace.As an anthropologist, Fry has written extensively on aggression, conflict, and conflict resolution in journals such as "Aggressive Behavior," "American Anthropologist," "Bulletin of Peace Proposals," "Child Development," "Journal of Aggression, Conflict, and Peace Research," "Sex Roles," among others. In 2012 and 2013 he has authored and co-authored with Patrik Söderberg articles in the leading journal "Science" titled "Life without War" and "Lethal Aggression in Mobile Forager Bands and Implications for the Origins of War." Fry regularly lectures on peacemaking in the USA, Europe, Japan, and beyond. Fry believes that anthropology, literally the study of humankind, has important insights to contribute to understanding war and peace: "In our ever-more global 21st century, many of the challenges facing humanity demand broader contexts. The macroscopic perspective of anthropology, with its expansive time frame and culturally comparative orientation, provides unique insights into the nature of war and holds some concrete lessons for how to develop a more safe and peaceful world."Fry's most recent book is called "War, Peace, and Human Nature" (Oxford University Press), and brings together renowned scientists and scholars from different fields to focus on war and peace. Fry is the author of "Beyond War" (2007, Oxford University Press), "The Human Potential for Peace" (2006, Oxford University Press) and co-editor with Graham Kemp of "Keeping the Peace: Conflict Resolution and Peaceful Societies Around the World" (2004, Routledge) and co-editor with Kaj Björkqvist of "Cultural Variation in Conflict Resolution: Alternatives to Violence" (1997, Erlbaum). His ability to make complex topics interesting and to explore the serious subjects of war and peace with a blend of realism and hopefulness has received praise from luminaries such as Jeffrey "End of Poverty" Sachs, Frans "Age of Empathy" de Waal, and Robert "A Primate's Memoir" Sapolsky. Fry also is an Associate Editor of the "Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict," (2008, 2nd edition, Elsevier/Academic). In his spare time, which is rather limited, Fry enjoys traveling, cooking and especially eating, socializing and grooming with other primates, and engaging in occasional bouts of playfighting.