Berkley Center

William Barbieri is associate professor of ethics in the School of Theology and Religious Studies and director of the Peace and Justice Studies Program at the Catholic University of America, where he is also a fellow at the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic Studies and the Center for the Study of Culture and Values.

Dr. Pierce S. Corden served as a division chief in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and office director in the U.S. State Department. Since 2013 he has been an adviser on disarmament issues to the Holy See Mission to the UN in New York.

Ambassador James E. Goodby is an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. During his time in the United States Foreign Service Ambassador Goodby was appointed ambassador to Finland and worked on nuclear issues, including the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency and cooperative threat reduction. He also taught at Georgetown, Syracuse, and Carnegie Mellon Universities.

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).

Dr. Richard Love is a Professor of Cyber Law and Strategy at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. He received the Joint Service Medal for his service to the Office of the Secretary of Defense for his work developing the U.S. government emergency response to Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis.