Benedetta Lomi is a professor of religion at Bristol University, who focuses on Japanese Buddhism, its material, and visual culture, with particular emphasis on the performative, healing and transformative dimensions of Buddhist rituals, scriptures and objects.

Ian Reader is a scholar of contemporary Japanese religion at Lancaster University whose work includes pilgrimage, Japanese Buddhism, new religious movements and religious practice in Asia.

Yasmin Ismail is a researcher with a background in Islamic studies and anthropology. Her research focuses on madrasa education in minority settings, particularly in Anglophone contexts. Her new research project will integrate knowledge of madrasas, Islamic ethics, AI literacy and principles of co-design to develop an AI literacy program tailored for religious educational institutions. Ismail […]

Jessica Eastwood is a philosopher who researches why esoteric practices like astrology are resonating with Gen Z as tools for self-discovery and meaning-making.

Mai Soto is Director of the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research at the University of London. Soto’s research focuses on the integrity of global justice systems, with particular emphasis on the death penalty and the legitimacy of courts and police. In July 2024, the UN Human Rights Council appointed Mai as the fourth […]

Irene Khan is the United Nations’ special rapporteur for freedom of opinion and expression and an advocate for human rights who formerly led Amnesty International. Contact is through the U.N. Office for the High Commissioner on Human Rights.

Jeremy Ginges is a professor in behavioral science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research focuses on two related problems: How do humans decide whether to cooperate across cultural boundaries, and why do people sacrifice everything (their own lives, the lives of loved ones) for an abstract cause like nation or […]

Nawara Aboud is a graduate researcher at University College, Oxford. Her expertise revolves around the politics of ethnicity, violent conflict, peace-building and post-conflict transformation. In particular, her research focuses on the political trajectories that countries take in the aftermath of civil wars and the economic, social and political dynamics that drive them.

Stathis N. Kalyvas is Gladstone Professor of Government and fellow of All Souls College at Oxford. Until 2018 he was Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he founded and directed the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence and co-directed the Hellenic Studies Program. In 2019 he founded the T. E. Lawrence […]