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An applied ethicist working in the areas of security information and technology ethics. He is assistant professor and research director with the Philosophy Section at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He has written on military ethics and just war, national security and intelligence ethics, ethical and political dimensions of cognitive warfare, the ethics of terrorism and counter-terrorism, and ethics and emergencies. Recent books include Cognitive Warfare: Grey Matters in Contemporary Political Conflict (Routledge, 2024), The Ethics of National Security Intelligence Institutions (Routledge, 2024), and the edited collection The Ethics of Surveillance in Times of Emergency (Oxford University Press, 2023). His current research is exploring the ethical and political dimensions of resilience to cognitive warfare, ethics and the internet of things, the ethics of human military enhancement, and role of authoritarian technologies in the decline of liberal democracies. 

A Professor in the Department of Philosophy and a Community Professor in the Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine’s program in Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law at Western Michigan University. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School and went on to clerk for the Honorable Chief Justice Craig F. Stowers of the Alaska Supreme Court. After the clerkship, Fritz was a Fellow at Stanford Law School’s Center for Law and the Biosciences.  In 2018, he was a Fulbright Specialist in the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Iceland. His writing and teaching is in applied ethics, ethical theory, and the philosophy of law. Fritz has published scholarly books, chapters, and journal articles, as well as essays in popular outlets such as Slate and The Atlantic. The US National Science Foundation has funded several of his research projects, with almost $1,000,000 in support.

Associate Professor in International and Political Studies at �ʹڲ�Ʊ Canberra, located at the Australian Defence Force Academy. He is the author of two books--Ethics, Security, and the War Machine: the True Cost of the Military (Oxford University Press 2020), and Insurrection and Intervention (Cambridge University Press 2012)--and his research has appeared in journals such as Philosophical Studies, Ethics and International Affairs, The Journal of Applied Philosophy, The Journal of Military Ethics, and International Studies Quarterly. Dobos has held visiting appointments at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at Oxford, the MacMillan Centre for International Studies at Yale, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford, and the philosophy department at Georgetown University. Currently he is an associate editor of the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence (Brill), and an associate director of MERLIN, the Military Ethics Research Lab and Innovation Network, at �ʹڲ�Ʊ Canberra.

A PhD candidate at the Department of International Relations, Australian National University. Her research looks at human cognitive enhancements in military operations and moral responsibility of enhanced soldiers. Sahar has a background in biomedical engineering and in applied ethics. She holds four masters degrees in: Biomedical Engineering, International Security Studies, Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism, and National Security Policy. Her professional background consists of working in biomedical/neuroscience research, followed by eight years in the Australian Public Service. She currently works in the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group researching novel military technologies. 

Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Korea Military Academy, specializing in applied ethics and moral responsibility. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of California, Santa Barbara. His recent research focuses on the ethical implications of artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons systems, particularly the moral status of AI in warfare and the distribution of moral responsibility in complex military operations. Dr. Kim has published extensively on topics such as posthumanism, the ethics of killing in war, and the collective moral responsibility of autonomous systems. He is actively involved in advancing military ethics education and has been a key contributor to international discussions on the ethical challenges posed by emerging military technologies.

A Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Curtin University where he is Course Coordinator for the International Relations/International Security graduate programs. Selected publications include: “Ethical Exceptionalism and the Just War Tradition: Walzer’s Instrumentalist Approach and an Institutionalist Response to McMahan’s ‘Nazi Military’ Problem” in the Journal of Military Ethics, “Rights-based Justifications for Self-Defense: Defending a Modified Unjust Threat Account” in the International Journal of Applied Philosophy, and “Jus Ad Vim and the Just Use of Lethal Force Short-of-War” (2013) in the Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War. He has also run professional development programs for government agencies in international security, analysis, and policymaking processes in Australia and overseas. Before becoming an academic, Dr Ford worked for the Australian Government as a senior political analyst and strategic policymaker for ten years. Initially, he specialised in North Asian security issues and then later led collaborative strategic policy planning work in the Department of Defence.