Patrick G. Coy

Active in the field of peace and conflict studies since the early 1980s, Patrick Coy was the editor of the peer-reviewed research series, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change for 18 years, editing eleven volumes of the series since 2000. He has also edited two other books (Social Conflicts and Collective Identities and A Revolution of the Heart: Essays on the Catholic Worker).

Dr. Coy co-authored the well-received book, Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power and Strategy in the Peace Movement. His co-authored article, "Discursive Legacies: The US Peace Movement and Support the Troops," published in Social Problems, received the "Best Published Article Award for 2008" by the American Sociological Association's section on Peace, War and Social Conflict.

Patrick Coy received the Magnificat Award from Marian University in May 2014, the institution’s highest honor, awarded at their commencement to “Persons who have embodied creative responses to injustice and whose lives exemplify active compassion and service…Your untiring efforts related to peace and conflict studies epitomize the kind of dedication that we hope to instill in our students.”

In 2017, Professor Coy received a distinguished career award from the American Sociological Association. The Section on Peace, War and Social Conflict presented him with the Robin M. Williams, Jr. Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship, Teaching and Service in the areas of peace, war, and social conflict.

Coy was awarded the College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award at Kent State University in 2000, and was a finalist for the university-wide Distinguished Teaching Award in 2014. He was formerly the national chairperson of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a research fellow of the Albert Einstein Institution, and the executive director of the Lentz Peace Research Laboratory.

Dr. Coy's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Albert Einstein Institution, the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, the American Sociological Association, and by the University Research Council and the University Teaching Council of Kent State University.

Patrick Coy was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Botswana in 2010-11 where he worked with the Research Centre on San (Bushmen) Studies, as well as the Department of Political and Administrative Affairs. He has served as the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the International Peace Research Association Foundation, and the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Cleveland Mediation Center.

Many of Professor Coy's recent scholarly publications can be accessed below. He is also a frequent contributor to newspapers, periodicals and web sites, publishing op-eds, commentaries and articles in such outlets as the Atlanta Journal Constitution, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Baltimore Sun, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Progressive, Fellowship, Sojourners, Commonweal, Common Dreams, and many other outlets.

Professor Coy provides workshops and trainings in various aspects of conflict resolution, mediation, and nonviolent action to community, educational, and international groups.

Scholarly, Creative & Professional Activities

PUBLICATIONS

Authored Books

Contesting Patriotism: Culture, Power and Strategy in the Peace Movement, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2008 (with Lynne M. Woehrle and Gregory M. Maney)   

Excerpts from reviews of the book.

Edited Books

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (editor), Volume 42, Emerald Group Publishing, 2018.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (editor), Volume 38, Emerald Group Publishing, 2015.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (editor), Volume 36, Emerald Group Publishing, 2013

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (editor), Volume 31, Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (editor), Volume 30, Emerald Group Publishing, 2010.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (editor), Volume 28, Emerald Group Publishing, 2008.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (editor), Volume 27,  Elsevier Science/JAI Press, 2007.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (editor), Volume 26, Elsevier Science/JAI Press, 2005.

Consensus Decision Making, Northern Ireland, and Indigenous Movements (editor), Volume 24, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Elsevier Science/JAI Press, 2003.

Political Opportunities, Social Movements and Democratization (editor), Volume 23,Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Elsevier Science/JAI, 2001.

Social Conflicts and Collective Identities (co-editor, with Lynne Woehrle), Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000.

Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change (editor), Volume 22, JAI Press, 2000.

A Revolution of the Heart: Essays on the Catholic Worker Movement (editor), Temple University Press, 1988; New Society Publishers, 1992, with a new introduction.

Journal Articles

Skills, Training and Activism, Reflective Practice, Vol. 18, No. 4, 2017 (with Brian Martin). 

“The Privilege Problematic in International Nonviolent Accompaniment’s Early Decades: Peace Brigades International Confronts the Use of Racism,” The Journal of Religion, Conflict and Peace. 2012.

“Nonpartisanship, Interventionism and Legality in Accompaniment: Comparative Analyses of Peace Brigades International, Christian Peacemaker Teams, and the International Solidarity Movement,” The International Journal of Human Rights. 2012.

"Mainstreaming Peace and Conflict Studies: Designing Introductory Courses to Fit Liberal Arts Education Requirements," Journal of Peace Education, Vol. 7, No. 2, 2010 (with Landon E. Hancock).

"Pursuing Political Persuasion: War and Peace Frames in the US after September 11th,"Social Movement Studies," Vol. 8, No. 4, 2009 (with Gregory M. Maney and Lynne M. Woehrle).

Ideological Consistency and Contextual Adaptation: U.S. Peace Movement Emotional Work Before and After 9/11, American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 52, Issue 4, 2009 (with Gregory M. Maney and Lynne M. Woehrle).

A Typology of Oppositional Knowledge: Democracy and the U.S. Peace Movement, Sociological Research Online, Vol. 13, Issue 4, July, 2008 (with Lynne M. Woehrle and Gregory M. Maney).

"Discursive Legacies: The U.S. Peace Movement and 'Support the Troops,'" Social Problems, Vol. 55, Issue 2, 2008 (with Lynne M. Woehrle and Gregory M. Maney).

"Harnessing and Challenging Hegemony: The U.S. Peace Movement after 9/11," Sociological Perspectives, Vol. 48, No. 3, 2005 (with Gregory M. Maney and Lynne M. Woehrle).

"A Stage Model of Social Movement Cooptation: Community Mediation in the United States," The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 46, No. 4, 2005 (with Timothy Hedeen).

"Shared Risks and Research Dilemmas on a Peace Brigades International Team in Sri Lanka," Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Vol. 30, No. 5, October 2001.

"An Experiment in Personalist Politics: The Catholic Worker Movement and Nonviolent Action," Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 26, No. 1, January 2001. 

"Community Mediation and the Court System: The Ties that Bind," Mediation Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 4, Summer 2000 (with Timothy Hedeen).

"Disabilities and Mediation Readiness in Court-Referred Cases: Developing Screening Criteria and Service Networks," Mediation Quarterly, Vol. 16, No. 2, Winter 1998/1999 (with Timothy Hedeen). 

"Nonviolent Intervention and the Peace Team Idea," Peace and Change, Vol. 22, No. 2, 1997 (review essay).

"Constructing Identity and Oppositional Knowledge: The Framing Practices of Peace Movement Organizations During the Persian Gulf War," Sociological Spectrum, Vol. 16, No. 3, 1996 (with Lynne Woehrle). 

Book Chapters

“Civil Rights, Social Movements, and Domestic Policy: The 1960 Nashville Student Sit-In Movement,” in Understanding Nonviolence: Contours and Contexts, Maia Hallward and Julie Michele Norman, editors, Polity Press, 2014 forthcoming (with Amanda D. Clark).

“Conflict Resolution, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding,” in Peace, Justice and Security Studies, Timothy McAlwee, B. Welling Hall, Joseph Liechty, and Julie Garber, editors, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009, p. 63-78.

"Blessing War and Blessing Peace: Religious Discourses in the U.S. During Major Conflict Periods, 1990-2005," Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Vol. 29, 2008 (with Gregory M. Maney and Lynne M. Woehrle).

"Religious (Ill)Literacy and (Un)Civil Liberties in the United States: Past and Present," in Democracy and Religion, David Odell-Scott, ed., Kent State University Press, 2004, p. 105-114.

"Negotiating Identity and Danger Under the Gun: Consensus Decision Making on Peace Brigades International Teams," in Consensus Decision-Making, Northern Ireland, and Indigenous Movements, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Vol. 24, Patrick G. Coy, editor, Elsevier Science/JAI Press, 2003, p. 85-122.

"Collective Identity and the Development of Conflict Analysis" (with Lynne Woehrle), in Social Conflicts and Collective Identities, co-editor (with Lynne Woehrle), Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.

"Cooperative Accompaniment and Peace Brigades International in Sri Lanka," in Transnational Social Movements and Global Politics: Solidarity Beyond the State, Jackie Smith, Charles Chatfield, and Ron Pagnucco, eds., Syracuse University Press, 1997.

"Conscription and the Catholic Conscience in World War II," in American Catholic Pacifism, Anne Klejment and Nancy Roberts, eds., Praeger, 1996.

Protective Accompaniment: How Peace Brigades International Secures Political Space and Human Rights Nonviolently, in Nonviolence: Social and Psychological Issues, V.K. Kool, ed., University Press of America, 1993.

Selected Non-Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

"Whither Nonviolent Studies?" Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice, Vol. 25, No.:2, 257-265, 2013.

"Contesting Patriotism by the Post-9/11 Peace Movement in the United States," Peace Review: A Transnational Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 4, 2003 (with Gregory M. Maney and Lynne M. Woehrle).

Going Where We Otherwise Would Not Have Gone: Accompaniment and Election Monitoring in Sri Lanka. Fellowship, Sept./Oct., 1995.

Magazine Editing

Guest editor of a special volume of Fellowship magazine on nonviolent action, Vol. 66, Nos. 7-8, July/August 2000.

Guest editor of a special volume of Fellowship magazine on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker movement, Vol. 63, Nos. 11-12, Nov./Dec., 1997.