Eric Ward is the National Field Director for the Center for New Community, a national, faith-based organization dedicated to building community, justice and equality. Formerly with the Clergy and Laity Concerned, Eric founded and directed a community project designed to expose and counter hate groups and respond to bigoted violence. Eric has served on the boards of the Western States Center, McKenzie River Gathering Foundation and A Territory Resource Foundation. He is the editor of: Conspiracies: Real Grievances, Paranoia and Mass Movements; Second Civil War: States Rights, Sovereignty and the Power of the County and American Armageddon: Religion, Revolution and the Right. Eric's recent writings have appeared in the Southern Poverty Law Center journal, The Intelligence Report, and in the European monthly, Searchlight.