Edward Burke is a Lecturer in History of War since 1945 at University College Dublin (UCD). Prior to joining UCD, he was an Assistant/Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Nottingham between 2017 – 2022. From 2015 – 2017, he was a Lecturer in Strategic Studies at the University of Portsmouth, attached to the Royal Air Force College from 2015 – 2017. He received his PhD in International Relations in 2016 from the University of Saint Andrews.

Mark Mellett was Ireland’s Chief of Defence, the Government’s principal military adviser and member of the National Security Committee and the EU Military Committee. With service in Lebanon, Afghanistan and at home as a diver and Seagoing Commander, Admiral Mellett also let the COVID-19 military response. A recipient of two Distinguished Service Medals, he was appointed by the President of the French Republic to the rank of Commander in the National Order of the Legion d’Honneur. He is Board Chair of the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority, Sage Advocacy and Council Chair and Board Member of the Irish Management Institute.

Tobias Winright is Professor of Moral Theology at Saint Patrick’s Pontifical University in Maynooth. A former law enforcement officer, he has published extensively on ethics and violence-related issues, including police use of force, nuclear weapons and disarmament, humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect, and environmental degradation and integral peace. Previously he held the Mäder Endowed Chair of Health Care Ethics and was Associate Professor of Theological Ethics at Saint Louis University, Missouri. He has authored, coauthored and edited seven books, including most recently the T&T Clark ‘Handbook of Christian Ethics’ in 2021.