Notes on Contributors
Michael Allen
is Professor of Philosophy at East Tennessee State University. He has published extensively on issues of war and peace, civil disobedience, and animal politics.
Amin Asfari
is an Associate Professor and the lfs Chair in Police Studies in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina, Canada. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the experiences of marginalized communities, particularly American and Canadian Muslim communities, within the criminal legal system. His work explores how these communities interact with the system as victims, perpetrators, and professionals. His recent publications address (1) vicarious victimization among Muslim communities, (2) correctional programming and its relationship to mental health and religious services, and (3) the impact of policing practices on victim interactions with the justice system. He is the co-author of Jews and Muslims in the White Supremacist Conspiratorial Imagination (Routledge, 2023), which examines the conspiratorial motivations behind white supremacist mass shooters targeting Jewish and Muslim communities. His latest book, under review with Lynne Rienner Publishers titled Making Sense of Islamophobia: An Integrated Theory, seeks to develop an integrated theory of Islamophobia that addresses its institutional, individual, and systemic dimensions.
David K. Chan
holds a B.A. (First Class Honors) from the University of Melbourne, Australia, and a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University. He taught at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point before moving to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he is Full Professor in the Philosophy Department. His published books include two monographs, Action Reconceptualized: Human Agency and Its Sources (Lexington Books, 2016), Beyond Just War: A Virtue Ethics Approach (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), and an edited anthology, Moral Psychology Today: Essays on Values, Rational Choice, and the Will (Springer Books, 2008). He is editing an anthology on Ending Wars Justly, to be published by Routledge in April 2025. He has frequently presented papers at the meetings of the American Philosophical Association, North American Society for Social Philosophy, International Society for Military Ethics, Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, and Concerned Philosophers for Peace.
Fariba Allahyoorti Dehaghi
is a Ph.D. Student in Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She earned a master’s degree in criminal law and criminology from Tarbiat Modares University in Iran, where her thesis explored immigrant defendants’ access to justice in Iran’s criminal justice system. She also earned a Bachelor of Law from Payam-E-Noor University. Her research interests include community-police relations, Muslim population, restorative justice, and victimology. In addition to her academic and professional work, she is also involved in community service through participation in ngo s addressing social issues as well as her membership in Marham Charity.
Edward V. Demenchonok
is Professor of Foreign Languages and Philosophy at Fort Valley State University,
Andrew Fiala
Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Fresno. Recent books include: Can War Be Justified? A Debate, with Jennifer Kling (2023) and Transformative Pacifism (2018). He is co-author of a widely used textbook: Ethics: Theory and Contemporary Issues, now in its 10th edition and co-author of the 10th edition of Archetypes of Wisdom (both with Cengage Publishing). He is a past President of Concerned Philosophers for Peace and former Director of the Ethics Center at Fresno State. He writes a regular column on religion, politics, and ethics for the Fresno Bee. More information: www.andrewfiala.com
Charles Freiberg
is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida, where he works on issues surrounding the social, political, and ethical implications of technology.
James Gacek
is an Associate Professor in the Department of Justice Studies at the University of Regina, Canada. He continues to extensively publish in reviews, journals and international fora, particularly in areas of (1) corrections and community justice, (2) green criminology, and (3) the broader socio-politics of judicial reasoning. At present he is conducting research on the nexus between aging and health in Canadian prisons, including but not limited to medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Canadian federal corrections, accelerated aging in the Canadian prison context, prison palliative care, and the natural causes of death in custody.
William C. Gay
is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Within Concerned Philosophers for Peace (cpp), he has served as President (1993), Executive Director (1997–1999), Editor of Concerned Philosophers for Peace Newsletter (1987–2002), and Editor of cpp’s book series “Philosophy of Peace” published by Rodopi (2002–2012). He has published six books – The Nuclear Arms Race (1987), On the Eve of the 21st Century: Perspectives of Russian and American Philosophers (1994), Capitalism with a Human Face: The Quest for a Middle Road in Russian Politics (1996), Global Studies Encyclopedia (2003), Democracy and the Quest for Justice: Russian and American Perspectives (2004), and Global Studies Encyclopedic Dictionary (2014) – and over 100 journal articles and book chapters. He also serves on the editorial boards of the journals Philosophy and Social Criticism (since 1978), The Age of Globalization (in Russian) (since 2008), and Journal of Globalization Studies (since 2010).
Michael Haiden
is a research associate and Ph.D. student at the University of Hohenheim, where he studies folk-ethical beliefs about artificial intelligence. He has also written on international relations and the history of ideas. Recently, he was awarded the 2024 Res Philosophica Essay Award for a paper on the pacifism of Jürgen Habermas, as well as the 2024 Intergenerational Justice Award for an essay on humanitarian interventions. For an essay on Bertrand Russell’s philosophy of international relations, he was awarded the 2022 Bertrand Russell Student Essay Prize. His paper on pacifist responses to the Russian invasion of Ukraine received an honorable mention by the Concerned Philosophers for Peace graduate student paper award in 2023.
Sanjay Lal
is Senior Lecturer of Philosophy at Clayton State University in Morrow, GA. He is a past president of Concerned Philosophers for Peace as well as an associate editor of The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence. His publications include the books Violence, Nonviolence, and Moral Worth (Lexington Books, 2024) and Gandhi’s Thought and Liberal Democracy (Lexington Books, 2019). Additionally, He edited the volume Peaceful Approaches for a More Peaceful World (Brill, 2022) and has authored many journal articles and book chapters. His work has appeared in Asian Philosophy, The Heythrop Journal, and Philosophy in the Contemporary World (among other scholarly venues).
Court Lewis
is Professor of Philosophy at Pellissippi State Community College, Knoxville,
Francisco Miguel Ortiz-Delgado
is a postdoctoral researcher-professor funded by the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology, and Innovation/ University of Guadalajara, with a research project on peace history/philosophy, nonviolence and geopolitics. He obtained an Honorable Mention in the best academic article Prizes on Theory of History by the Mexican Committee of Historical Sciences (2018) for an article on the philosophy of history of Friedrich Nietzsche and Gustav Droysen. Awarded with the Merit Medal by the Autonomous Metropolitan University for his doctoral studies on philosophy and imperialism in the work of Cicero, Seneca, and Tacitus (2021). He was honored with the “Bill Gay Award for Early Career Scholar” by the Concerned Philosophers for Peace (2023). Recent publications: “The Philosophy of Trans-Historic-History Followed by President López Obrador”, Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 62(163) (2023); “The Good Dogs Are Still in the Portico: Making Sense of the Cynic-Stoic Moral and Sociopolitical Continuities”, South African Journal of Philosophy 43(2) (2024).