Rafael Biermann holds the Chair of International Relations at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. He worked for the German Chancellor from 1990 to 1992 and for the policy planning staff at the German Ministry of Defense from 1995 to 1999, followed by three years as a visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. His research focuses on ethnic conflict and conflict management, including the ethics of humanitarian intervention and reconciliation. He also studies international organizations and is co-editor, together with Joachim Koops, of the Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics (2017). rafael.biermann@uni-jena.de
Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford, where he also directs the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life. He is the author of In Defence of War (2013) and Between Kin and Cosmopolis: An Ethic of the Nation (2014), and he is currently preparing a book entitled What's Wrong with Rights? In the press he has written on the Iraq war for the Financial Times and on the United Kingdom's military action against the Islamic State in Syria for the Times of London. Biggar has lectured at the Royal College of Defence Studies, London; the U.K. Defence Academy, Shrivenham; the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research, Camberley; the U.S. Military Academy, West Point; the National Defense University, Washington, D.C.; and the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr, Hamburg. nigel.biggar@chch.ox.ac.uk
Megan Bradley is associate professor of political science and international development studies at McGill University, where her research focuses on refugees and forced migration, human rights, humanitarianism, transitional justice, and natural disasters. She is the author of Refugee Repatriation: Justice, Responsibility and Redress (2013), editor of Forced Migration, Reconciliation, and Justice (2015), and co-editor of the forthcoming Refugees’ Roles in Resolving Displacement and Building Peace: Beyond Beneficiaries (2019). megan.bradley@mcgill.ca
Gareth Evans was Australia's foreign minister from 1988 to 1996 and a cabinet minister in the Hawke-Keating Labor governments for thirteen years. He led the Brussels-based International Crisis Group from 2000 to 2009 and is now Chancellor and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Australian National University. He has co-chaired major international commissions on mass atrocity crimes and nuclear weapons, has written or edited thirteen books, and has won many national and international awards for his pioneering work on the Responsibility to Protect concept and for his contributions to conflict prevention and resolution, arms control, and disarmament. chancellor@anu.edu.au
Sean Kanuck is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and an affiliate with the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. From 2011 to 2016 he served as the United States’ first National Intelligence Officer for Cyber Issues at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He has held numerous distinguished positions internationally, including chair of the research advisory group for the Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace; Director of Cyber, Space, and Future Conflict at the International Institute for Strategic Studies; and academic fellowships in India and Singapore. sean@kanuck.com
Edward C. Luck is the Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs and director of the specialization in International Conflict Resolution of the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) of Columbia University. From 2008 through 2012, he served as the first UN Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Responsibility to Protect. edward.c.luck@columbia.edu
Stefan Oeter is professor of German law, comparative public law, and public international law at the University of Hamburg, where he has served since 1999. He earned his law degree from the University of Heidelberg and was a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law from 1987 to 1997. He is a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague and a member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg. His current research interests include minority protection and human rights law, law of armed conflict, and theories of international law. stefan.oeter@jura.uni-hamburg.de
Christian Schemmel is lecturer in political theory at the Manchester Centre for Political Theory, University of Manchester. His research focuses on social justice, equality, global justice, liberalism and republicanism, self-respect and other self-evaluative attitudes, political theory of the welfare state, and economic and workplace democracy. He is a founding editor of the journal Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric and a founding member of the Global Justice Network. christian.schemmel@manchester.ac.uk
Hugo Slim is Head of Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva. Before joining the ICRC in 2015, he was Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford. His books include Humanitarian Ethics: A Guide to the Morality of Aid in War and Disaster (2015) and Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in War (2007). hslim@icrc.org