📣 Our New Logo – Institute for Peace and Military Ethics (IFME) 📣 At its heart are the dove of peace and the oak leaf. Catholic tradition challenges us to seek, promote and preserve peace. At the same time, peace cannot be taken for granted and may need to be defended. #peace #ethics #military

I am deeply honoured and grateful to share that I have been inaugurated as the new Director of the Institute for Peace and Military Ethics (IFME). I am excited for this new chapter and for the opportunity to help shape the future work of IFME.

Heute um 12 Uhr! Lunch Lecture: Donald Trump vs. Leo XIV? Der Irankrieg aus Sicht der katholischen Friedenslehre! Wir sprechen mit Dr. @christianbraun612.bsky.social über den Zwist zwischen Papst und Präsident - join us: atlantischeakademie.clickmeeting.com/pope/register

Paid fellowship in awesome Hamburg in the field of ethics in international security. Fantastic opportunity for a PhD or new graduate - APPLY!

📣We are hiring!📣 The Institute for Theology and Peace and the Center for Ethical Education in the Armed Forces are accepting applications for the first Pater Reinisch Fellowship, aimed at outstanding early-career scholars working on ethics in international security.

📣WE ARE HIRING📣 Das Institut für Theologie und Frieden (ithf) und das Zentrum für ethische Bildung in den Streitkräften (zebis) vergeben erstmals ein Fellowship für herausragende Nachwuchswissenschaftler*innen, die sich mit Ethik in der Sicherheitspolitik beschäftigen.

Exciting news: I have been appointed director of the Institute for Theology and Peace (ITHF) & the Centre for Ethical Education in the Armed Forces (zebis). In the coming months, both institutions will merge into a new think tank—linking theology, ethics & security policy in fresh dialogue. #PME

Seit gestern habe ich eine neue Aufgabe: Ich leite jetzt das Institut für Theologie und Frieden & das Zentrum für ethische Bildung in den Streitkräften. Beide Einrichtungen werden bald zu einem neuen Think Tank zusammengeführt – an der Schnittstelle von Theologie, Ethik & Sicherheitspolitik.

Delighted to receive a physical copy of my latest publication. In this new book on Just War Theory and Artificial Intelligence, Bernhard Koch and I argue about the morality of fully autonomous armed drones. We ground our argument in the Catholic tradition.

I've published a thing! Here's a link to my Defence-in-Depth blog entry titled "Germany, Weapons for Ukraine, and Jus ad Vim." www.kcl.ac.uk/germany-weap...

Fantastic conference on "Just War and Just Peace" organised by the Ludovica University of Public Service and Pázmány Peter Catholic University. A keynote by Card. Michael Czerny SJ as well as thought-provoking discussions. And all of that in stunningly beautiful Budapest.

Very exciting to see the cover of this forthcoming book on Just War Theory and AI. To this volume, Bernhard Koch (Institut für Wehrmedizinische Ethik der Bundeswehr) and I contribute a chapter titled “On the Morality of Fully-Autonomous Armed Drones.” @dsdkings.bsky.social

📚Book Review📚 Amazing review of Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition in Ethics & International Affairs by the fantastic @rorycox.bsky.social. @dsdkings.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

#Int-rel, #IR, #IRTheory, #internationalrelations, #worldpolitics, #intaffairs

📚Author copy📚 Wonderful to receive a physical copy of the latest International Affairs issue that includes my #openaccess article “Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war.” @chathamhouse.bsky.social @dsdkings.bsky.social Here is a link to the article: academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

❗ Review ❗ 📷Fantastic to see my book Limited Force and the Fight for the Just War Tradition reviewed in the Journal of Religious Ethics by the most wonderful John Kelsay (Florida State University). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Holy War to Justify an Unjust War? Please join us for a fascinating talk by Dr Yuri Stoyanov @soasuni.bsky.social on the role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the War against Ukraine. 📅 21 Jan | 📷13:00 | 📷 online @dsdkings.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/events/holy-...

What are the ethical implications of sending weapons to #Ukraine under "jus ad vim"? Dr @christianbraun612.bsky.social's new article explores the moral challenges of providing lethal aid, focusing on the German debate & principles like the "probability of escalation." Read: 👉 bit.ly/3CafSvT

❗Publication❗ Delighted to see “Weapons for Ukraine as force-short-of-war” published in #InternationaAffairs. Concentrating on the German 🇩🇪 debate, I explore the supply of weapons to Ukraine 🇺🇦 through the prism of jus ad vim (the just use of force-short-of-war). academic.oup.com/ia/article/1...

Delighted to have received a physical copy of Just War Thinkers Revisited. This edited volume includes my chapter on Pope Francis.

Very honoured to be speaking to the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Union on ethical issues related to the war against Ukraine this afternoon.

Good news! The introduction to my Ethics&InternationalAffairs roundtable on the war against Ukraine has now been made available #openaccess.

Excellent @thetimes.com essay by @edwardlucas.bsky.social on the challenge of subthreshold/greyzone action. We urgently need to refine our thinking on how to respond to such action. Scholarship on jus ad vim (the just use of force-short-of-war) needs more attention! www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

❗️New Publication❗️ Just War Thinkers Revisited, edited by Daniel Brunstetter and Cian O'Driscoll, has just been published by Routledge.

Having signed up, I guess it is time for a first post... I recently organised a roundtable for Ethics and International Affairs on ethical issues related to the war against Ukraine. Here's a link to the issue: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...