Pamela Aall is director of the US Institute of Peace’s Education Program. Aall has co-edited or authored four books, including Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases and Turbulent Peace: The Challenges of Managing International Conflict. Before joining the Institute in 1993, she was a consultant to the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and to the Institute of International Education. She held a number of positions at the Rockefeller Foundation.

R. Scott Appleby is the John M. Regan, Jr. Director of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and professor of history. Appleby is the author of The Ambivalence of the Sacred: Religion, Violence and Reconciliation and co-editor of the five-volume Fundamentalism Project.

John Borelli is special assistant to the President for Interreligious Initiatives at Georgetown University. He previously served as Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs at the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He has been a consultor to the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue since 1990.

John Carr has been secretary of the Department of Social Development and World Peace at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops since 1988. In this role, he oversees the Conference’s policy development and advocacy efforts on domestic and international issues, and its work to strengthen the Catholic community’s capacity to act on social mission. He has represented the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at the Vatican and in visits to the Middle East, Northern Ireland, Southern Africa, Russia, Central America and Vietnam.

Stephen Colecchi is director of the Office of International Justice and Peace at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Prior to coming to the Conference, Dr. Colecchi served as the Director of the Office of Justice and Peace and Director of Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Richmond. He is the author of In the Footsteps of Jesus – Catholic Social Teaching Today Parish Resource manual and Leader’s Guide to Sharing Catholic Social Teaching, both published by the USCCB.

Maryann Cusimano Love is associate professor of politics at The Catholic University of America. She has published three books, including Beyond Sovereignty: Issues for a Global Agenda and her newest, Morality Matters: Ethics and the War on Terrorism. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ project on homeland security and the Bishops’ International Policy Committee.

Frederick Fleitz is a senior advisor and chief of staff to Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Robert Joseph. From 2001 to June 2005, he was Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to Under Secretary of State John Bolton. In his current assignment, Fleitz has worked closely on the Iranian and North Korean nuclear weapons issues and has been a delegate to many arms control conferences. He has spent most of his 19 year U.S. Government career as a CIA analyst specializing in multilateral diplomacy. He is the author of Peacekeeping Fiascoes of the 1990s: Causes, Solutions, and U.S. Interests (Praeger, 2002) and is currently working on a book on intelligence reform.

Catherine Kelleher is a professor of Strategic Research at the Naval War College. She has served in key positions for the Department of Defense, including as the personal representative of the Secretary of Defense in Europe and as deputy assistant secretary involved in national security studies during the 1990s. Prior to that, she was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She is the author of more than 60 books, monographs, and articles, and is the recipient of the U.S. Defense Departments Medal for Distinguished Public Service.

John Langan, S.J., a Jesuit priest, is the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Professor of Catholic Social Thought, a member of the Core Faculty in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, and the Rose Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University. He has taught at Yale Divinity School, Drew University, and Loyola University, Chicago. He is currently working on ethical questions about the war on terrorism and the war with Iraq and on a study of the ethics of military intervention for humanitarian purposes. He is chair of the American section of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defense and Disarmament.

George Lopez is a professor of political science and a senior fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests focus primarily on the problems of state violence and coercion, especially economic sanctions, and gross violations of human rights. He also has an interest in ethical issues related to these questions. He has written more than twenty articles and book chapters, as well as five books, on economic sanctions.

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has served as the Archbishop of Washington since 2001. Prior to that, he was Archbishop of Newark for fourteen years. Noted for his leadership in international human rights, justice and peace issues, Cardinal McCarrick has headed the U.S. bishops' committees on migration, domestic policy, aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe, Catholic Relief Services, and international policy. He has been a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and the U.S. Commission for the Study of International Migration and Cooperative Economic Development. In 2000, President Clinton honored him with the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights.

Archbishop Edwin O’Brien has served as Archbishop for the Military Services since 1997. Prior to that, he served as Auxiliary Bishop of New York, Rector of St. Joseph's Seminary and the Pontifical North American College, and as secretary for Cardinals Terence Cooke and John O'Connor. He also served as a military chaplain, including a tour of duty in Vietnam.

Keith Pavlischek is a colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps and has just returned from a tour of duty in Iraq. He is also a veteran of the Gulf War. Dr. Pavlischek specializes in foundational issues in Protestant and Catholic political and social thought. He has been a fellow at the Center for Public Justice, a professor at Truman State University, and director of the Crossroads Program on Faith and Public Policy, a program sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts. He has served in a variety of assignments as a Marine Corps Reserve officer, including as a member of the faculty of the Joint Military Intelligence College of the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Daniel Philpott is an associate professor of political science and a member of the faculty of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is currently collaborating on a major study of global religion and politics based at Harvard University, focusing on religion's impact on the politics of peace and reconciliation, and is writing a book on the ethics of political reconciliation. His most recent publication is Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations.

Albert C. Pierce is the director of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. He was previously Professor of Military Strategy at the National War College in Washington, D.C. Dr. Pierce has also been a defense correspondent for NBC news and has served as Assistant to the Secretary of Defense. He has published three books, including the recent Strategy, Ethics, and the War on Terrorism.

Gerard Powers is director of policy studies for the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, a position he assumed in August 2004. From 1998-2004, he was director of the Office of International Justice and Peace of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and from 1987-1998, he was a foreign policy advisor in the same office.

Bishop John Ricard, S.S.J., is Bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee and Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on International Policy. He has previously chaired the board of Catholic Relief Services. In those capacities, he has traveled widely, particularly in Africa. As chairman of the bishops’ International Policy Committee, he has had a leading role in the bishops’ efforts to address the moral and policy dimensions of global terrorism, the Iraq intervention, and global poverty.

Douglas Roche, OC is chairman of the Middle Powers Initiative, a network of eight international non-governmental organizations specializing in nuclear disarmament. He is a former special advisor to the Holy See’s Mission to the United Nations and has chaired the UN Disarmament Committee. He served 13 years as a Conservative MP in Canada’s parliament, five years as Canada’s ambassador for disarmament, and nine years as an independent senator. The author of seventeen books, his latest is The Human Right to Peace.

John Steinbruner is Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland and director of the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland. Previously, he was director of the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Arms Control Association and is a member of the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on International Policy. He has published numerous books and articles, including Principles of Global Security.

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