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Joseph E. Capizzi is ordinary professor of moral theology at the Catholic University of America. He has written, lectured, and published widely on just war theory, bioethics, the history of moral theology, and political liberalism. Dr. Capizzi is the executive director of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America.

Dr. Marc LiVecche is the McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at Providence Magazine and a non-resident research fellow at the U.S. Naval War College. LiVecche earned his Ph.D. in religious ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

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).

Congressman Jerry McNerney (D-California) has represented California’s 9th District in the U.S. House of Representatives since January 2007. He currently serves on the Committee on Energy and Commerce and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Prior to entering public service, Congressman McNerney earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of New Mexico and worked in wind energy.

Paul D. Miller is a public servant and professor of the practice of international affairs at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is also a non-resident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He earned his B.A. and Ph.D. from Georgetown University and his M.A. from Harvard University.

Eric Patterson serves as president of the Religious Freedom Institute and is a research fellow with the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. He previously served as 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).