[1][2][3] The daughter of Ariel S. Ballif and Artemesia Romney,[4] Bonnie Ballif-Spanvill attended Brigham Young High School in Provo, Utah and has a bachelor's degree and a Ph.D. both from Brigham Young University.
[9] In 1994 she joined the Brigham Young University faculty as a professor of psychology and head of the Women's Research Institute.
[10] Ballif-Spanvill's most cited work is "Preventing violence and teaching peace: A review of promising and effective antiviolence, conflict-resolution, and peace programs for elementary school children" which was co-authored with Claudia J. Clayton and Melanie D.
[11] She was also an author of the article "Terrorist as Group Violence" in the Journal of Threat Assessment in 2003; "The Security of Women and the Security of States" with Valerie M. Hudson, Mary Caprioli, Rose McDermott and Chad F. Emmett published in International Security Vol.
[12][13][14] She has written multiple articles for the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry and coedited with Marilyn Arnold and Kristen Tracey A Chorus for Peace: A Global Anthology of Poetry by women published by the University of Iowa Press in 2002.