William Eckhardt of the University of Missouri Kansas City Law School prosecuted Lt. William Calley for the My Lai massacre in Vietnam and taught at the U.S. Army War College.

Julie A. Mertus is assistant professor at American University’s School of International Service. She has expertise in women, human rights and war.

David Patel is an assistant professor of government at Cornell University. He applies game theory and ethnography to Islamic institutions to study their effect on national politics and once spent eight months living with an Islamic family in Basra, Iraq. He speaks frequently about the political and religious situation in Iraq.

Ira R. Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is interested in religion, war and peace and the connection between politics and faith. Among his publications are “Religion, War and Peace” in the Columbia Guide to Religion in American History; American Nonviolence: The History of an Idea; and Monsters […]

Tobias Lee Winright is an assistant professor of theology at St. Louis University. His interests include just war, just peacemaking, just policing and the responsibility to protect (R2P), and he has written extensively about the topics.

Richard B. Miller is a professor of religious studies and director of the Poynter Center for the Study of Ethics and American Institutions at Indiana University in Bloomington. He has written extensively about the ethics of war and peace, and his publications include 9/11, Radical Islam and the Disquiet of Equal Liberty.

Patrick G. Coy is a professor of political science and director of the Center for Applied Conflict Management at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. His specialties include religion and politics. Among his research projects are the philosophy of nonviolence of the Catholic monk Thomas Merton and a comparative analysis of the religious rhetoric used […]

G. Scott Davis is Lewis T. Booker Professor of Religion and Ethics, and he chairs the religion department at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Va. He has written about justice, war and peace, and his publications include Religion and Justice

Kenneth R. Himes is a professor of theology at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass. His specialties include the ethics of warfare, and he has written extensively on just war and peace.