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Luke Campbell is an assistant professor at Northwest Missouri State University. His research focuses on several areas, including political ethics, ideology, and just war theory. Campbell has presented several papers to the International Studies Association, including “Constructing the Probability of Success: History, Just War, and 'Winning' the War on Terror,” and has been published in Political Science Quarterly. He received his B.A. from William Jewell College before receiving his M.A. from the University of Missouri at Kansas City. In 2015, Campbell received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. 

Amy E. Eckert is an associate professor of political science at the Metropolitan State University of Denver. Her interests in teaching and research focus on international relations, particularly international ethics and international law, including the just war tradition. She is the author of Outsourcing War: The Just War Tradition in the Age of Military Privatization (2016), and her work has also appeared in journals such International Studies Quarterly and the Journal of International Political Theory. She co-edits (with Steven C. Roach) a series titled Ethics and the Challenges of Contemporary Warfare, published by SUNY Press. She is currently section leader of the International Studies Association’s International Ethics section. Eckert holds a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, J.D. from the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law, and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver's Josef Korbel School of International Studies.

Andrew Hom is a lecturer in international relations at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on the intersections of time, international relations, and just war theory. Previously Hom served as a research associate at the University of Glasgow and an adjunct lecturer at Vanderbilt University. He has published in several journals including International Studies Review and Security Dialogue, and he is co-editor of the book A Space for Time: Essays on Time, Temporality and Global Politics (2016). Hom obtained a B.A. in religious studies and an M.A. in political science from the University of Kansas before obtaining his Ph.D. from Aberystwyth University.

John Kelsay is distinguished research professor in the Department of Religion at Florida State University. His research and teaching focus on political and military aspects of Christian and Muslim traditions. Kelsay’s publications include, among others, Arguing the Just War in Islam (2007) and Islam and War: A Study in Comparative Ethics (1993).

Kurt Mills is senior lecturer in international human rights at the University of Glasgow. His work focuses on humanitarianism, humanitarian intervention, international criminal justice, and international organizations, with a particular interest in Sub-Saharan Africa. He previously taught at the American University in Cairo, Mount Holyoke College, James Madison University, and Gettysburg College, and served as assistant director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College. Mills has published widely in this area, including International Responses to Mass Atrocities in Africa: Responsibility to Protect, Prosecute, and Palliate (2015). He is the founder of the human rights section of the International Studies Association (ISA), served as vice president of ISA, and is currently vice chair of the Academic Council on the United Nations System. He is also founder and director of the Glasgow Human Rights Network. He received his B.A. from Hampshire College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.

Cian O’Driscoll is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of Glasgow whose work focuses on the ethics of peace and war, including the just war tradition. O’Driscoll’s publications include The Renegotiation of the Just War Tradition and the Right to War in the 21st Century (2008) and Just War: Authority, Tradition, Practice (2013, as co-editor), as well as articles in International Studies Quarterly, Review of International Studies, Ethics & International, Affairs, Millennium, International Relations, the Journal of Military Ethics, and the European Journal of Political Theory. He is co-editor of two forthcoming volumes and is working on a monograph entitled Triumph and Tragedy: The Victory of Just War. O’Driscoll is a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy and co-convenor of the Glasgow Global Security Network. He completed his Ph.D. in 2006 at the University of Wales, having previously studied at the University of Limerick, Dalhousie University, and the University of Oslo.

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).