Lina Aburas is a PhD candidate in International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa. Her research explores the climate-insecurity nexus in Nigeria, examining how environmental knowledge is constructed and translated into policy. Aburas bridges academic theory with extensive field experience as a former delegate for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in the Middle East, West Africa, and Eastern Europe. Her broader interests include human security, disasters, and resource nationalism. laburasa@uottawa.ca

Thomas Gregory is Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His most recent book, Weaponizing Civilian Protection: Counterinsurgency and Collateral Damage in Afghanistan (2025), examines how coalition forces sought to re-imagine civilian casualties as a strategic problem rather than a humanitarian concern, and how this worked to rationalize the harm inflicted on Afghan civilians. He is working on a new project focused on visualizing civilian harm. t.gregory@auckland.ac.nz

Craig Jones is an expert on international humanitarian law, military targeting, and war-related injury in the Middle East. He is the author of the monograph The War Lawyers: The United States, Israel and Juridical Warfare (2020), which examines the international law of lethal targeting operations and the role of U.S. and Israeli legal advisers in aerial warfare. He is currently leading a major UKRI-funded research project entitled “The afterlives of war-related injury: Mapping civilian trauma pathways in conflict settings,” which focuses on Gaza and Iraq. craig.jones@ncl.ac.uk

Helen M. Kinsella is Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Minnesota and a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. Kinsella writes on gender and armed conflict with an emphasis on the histories and formations of international humanitarian law. She is the author of the award-winning book The Image Before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction Between Combatant and Civilian (2015) and numerous articles. kins0017@umn.edu

Cian O’Driscoll is a Professor of International Relations at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University. His research focuses on the ethics of war. He is the co-editor with Daniel R. Brunstetter of Just War Thinkers: From Cicero to the 21st Century (2018) and Just War Thinkers Revisited (2025), and the author of several journal articles and books, including Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Just War (2019). Cian is currently a visiting fellow at the Australian Army Research Centre. Cian.ODriscoll@anu.edu.au

Beth Rowan is a Principal Researcher at the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect at the University of Queensland and Executive Director of Women in International Security Australia (WIIS-A). Her research examines how practitioners operationalize international law under conditions of institutional constraint, focusing on how accountability for atrocity crimes is advanced through adaptive practices that circumvent formal legal and political blockages. Her work spans civilian protection, accountability pathways for atrocity crimes, and how international law operates in practice across different conflict settings. She is also a long-serving volunteer with the Australian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law program. b.rowan@uq.edu.au

David Schlosberg is Professor of Environmental Politics at the University of Helsinki. He is an environmental political theorist best known for developing a foundational framework for understanding environmental justice that encompasses equity, recognition, participation, and capabilities—work that has been widely cited and used globally by governments, NGOs, and think tanks. His applied work, with a range of government and civil society partners, includes justice in adaptation and resilience planning and community-based responses to climate disasters. Schlosberg’s books include Defining Environmental Justice (2007), Sustainable Materialism: Environmental Movements and the Politics of Everyday Life (2019), and Institutionalising Multispecies Justice (2025). david.schlosberg@helsinki.fi

Nisha Shah is an Associate Professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa and Associate Director of the Centre for International Policy Studies. Her research examines the evolving ethics of killing in war, shaping how and why certain weapons, despite their deadly effects, become not just technically possible but ethically permissible. She has published in leading journals, including Security Dialogue, International Political Sociology, and Critical Studies on Security. nisha.shah@uottawa.ca

Sian Troath is an associate lecturer at the University of Wollongong, having formerly worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian National University and Te Whare Wānanga O Waitaha | University of Canterbury. Her research focuses on the political economy and politics of expertise, militarism, emerging weapons technologies, Australian defense and foreign policy, and theories of trust in international relations. sian_troath@uow.edu.au

Jessica Wolfendale is Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of American Torture and American Terrorism: The Myth of American Decency (2026); War Crimes: Causes, Excuses, and Blame (2018, with Matthew Talbert); and Torture and the Military Profession (2007). She has written over forty articles and book chapters on military ethics, war crimes, torture, terrorism, and political violence. jessica.wolfendale@case.edu