Kozue Akibayashi is a Professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University (Kyoto, Japan). She is also a researcher/activist and has worked on the issue of gender and peace, militarism, and demilitarization of security from a feminist perspective. She has conducted action research on the feminist peace movement in Okinawa, Japan, and other parts of the world, including Okinawa Women Act Against Military Violence, which has problematized the problem of sexual violence by the US military in the host communities. She has been active in international civil society on gender and peace. She is currently the International President of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the oldest women’s international peace organization established in 1915, which has over 30 sections around the world. She is also on the steering committee of Women Cross DMZ, an international feminist peace organization that calls for peace on the Korean Peninsula. She was among the international delegation of 30 women who crossed the DMZ on the Korean Peninsula in 2015. She served on the advisory group for the Japanese government on the National Action Plan for the implementation of UNSCR 1325 in 2014. Kozue received M.Ed. and Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University (US).