Berkley Center

Kelsey Davenport is the director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association and a board member at the Kroc Institute at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to this, Davenport worked at the Israel Palestine Center for Research and Information, where she researched regional security issues and diplomacy among non-state actors. She regularly provides commentary for CNN, BBC, Fox News, MSNBC, NPR, and Al Jazeera. 

Rev. David Hollenbach, S.J., is the Pedro Arrupe Distinguished Research Professor in the Walsh School of Foreign Service; a senior fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs; and an affiliated professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at Georgetown University. His teaching and research deal with human rights, religious and ethical responses to humanitarian crises, and religion in political life from the standpoint of Catholic social thought, theology, and the social sciences. His books include Human Rights in a Divided World: Catholicism as a Living Tradition (2024), Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees (2019), Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced Migrants (2010) The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics (2003), and The Common Good and Christian Ethics (2002). He has taught often at Hekima University College in Nairobi, Kenya, and he collaborates with Jesuit Refugee Service. From 2020 to 2022 he is a distinguished research associate with the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Hollenbach is also a research associate with the Jesuit Center for Theological Reflection in Zambia. Hollenbach is a member of the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

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).

Carole Sargent, Ph.D., is the author of Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli (Liturgical Press 2022), and the founding director of Georgetown University's Office of Scholarly Publications. With Berkley Center Senior Fellow Rev. Drew Christiansen, S.J., she co-edited A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (2020) and the forthcoming Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons (2023), both from Georgetown University Press. She is writing a biography of Sr. Ardeth Platte, O.P., overseen by Sr. Carol Gilbert, O.P.

Archbishop John C. Wester leads the Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe. In 2022 he released the pastoral letter "Living in the Light of Christ's Peace: A Conversation Toward Nuclear Disarmament," which calls for a renewed commitment to the cause of peace and a spirited conversation that will lead to nuclear disarmament throughout the world.