Berkley Center

Thomas Banchoff is director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and serves as vice president for global engagement at Georgetown University, where he is a professor in the Department of Government and the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

Andrea Bartoli is president of the Sant’Egidio Foundation for Peace and Dialogue. An international affairs expert and a leader of academic institutions who has worked in the higher education sector as tenured professor and senior administrator, he was the permanent representative of the Community of Sant’Egidio to the United Nations and to the United States (1992–2018).

Nida Gelazis is a Senior Associate for European Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where she specializes in democracy, human rights, and international law. Much of her work centers on East and Southeast Europe. Before joining the Wilson Center, she served as Managing Editor of East European Constitutional Review, based at the University of Chicago. Her publications include Cities after the Fall of Communism: Reshaping Cultural Landscapes and European Identity (co-editor, Woodrow Wilson Press, 2009) and "The Tenth Anniversary of the Dayton Accords and Afterwards: Reflections on Post-Conflict State- and Nation-Building" (editor, EES Special Report, April 2007). She received her BA from the University of Chicago and and LLM in Comparative European and International Law from the European University Institute in Florence.

Dr. Maryann Cusimano Love is a tenured professor of international relations at the Catholic University of America and an expert on international security and peacebuilding. She is a consultant to the Holy See Mission at the United Nations and a board member of the Arms Control Association and the Catholic Peacebuilding Network. She earned her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University, and her research focuses on just peace and just war, nuclear disarmament, religious actors and transnational networks, globalization, normative change. Recent publications include her book Global Issues Beyond Sovereignty (2020).