Berkley Center

James Turner Johnson is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religion at Rutgers University—The State University of New Jersey (USA). A former Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, he is the author of ten books, including Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War (1981) and The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions (1997), and editor or co-editor of five more, including (with John Kelsay) Cross, Crescent, and Sword (1990) and Just War and Jihad (1991). His most recent books are Ethics and the Use of Force (2011) and Sovereignty: Moral and Historical Perspectives (2014). He served for nine years as founding co-editor of the Journal of Military Ethics. He received a Ph.D. with distinction from Princeton University in 1968.

Mary Manjikian is associate dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University (USA). She previously served as a US Foreign Service officer in the Netherlands, Russia, and Bulgaria and a Fulbright Scholar at Durham University’s Institute of Advanced Study. Her publications include Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End (2012), Threat Talk: Comparative Politics of Internet Addiction in China and the US (2012), and Securitization of Property Squatting in Western Europe (2013). Her work has also appeared in International Studies Quarterly, International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence, Intelligence and National Security, and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. She holds an M.Phil. from Oxford Unversity and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

Eric Patterson is president and CEO of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation and is a research fellow with the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He previously served as president of the Religious Freedom Institute, dean of the School of Government at Regent University, and before that, as associate director at the Berkley Center. He is an expert in two overlapping areas: the ethics of war and peace, and global religious trends and religious freedom policy. These two areas routinely intersect, such as in building post-conflict systems that represent diverse ethnoreligious factions, understanding the religious factors in conflict, and measuring U.S. democracy promotion efforts. His government experience includes time at the U.S. State Department, service as a White House Fellow, and over 20 years as an Air National Guard commander. He is the author or editor of 20 books, including Politics in a Religious World: Toward a Religious Informed U.S. Foreign Policy (2011).

Keith Pavlischek is a military affairs expert, with a focus on just war theory and the ethics of war. Pavlischek retired as a colonel in the United States Marine Corps in 2007 after 30 years of active and reserve service. He then served as a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He joined the Human Terrain System in 2010; from September 2010 to June 2011 he deployed to Afghanistan as a Human Terrain Team leader in Khandahar Province. From November 2011 to February 2012 he served as the forward team leader at International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) headquarters for a US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program and from January to August 2013 served on ISAF’s Kabul staff. He is the author of John Courtney Murray and the Dilemma of Religious Toleration (1994) and numerous articles, including a chapter in the Ashgate Research Companion to Military Ethics (2015).  He received a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.