John is the Director of the Office of Peace and Justice at Loyola University Maryland. A theology professor, John teaches a curriculum focused on ethics. He recently had a book published on the life and work of philosopher Hannah Arendt. John is a 2004 Mitchell Scholar who received a Master's Degree in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queen's University, Belfast. John was impressed by the role religious leaders played as mediators between communities in Northern Ireland and he studied the contribution of the religious community to bringing about peace. His PhD dissertation into the peacemaking efforts of grassroots churches in Eastern Congo built upon his research in Northern Ireland. John's goal is to foster and contribute to a scholarly agenda borne from and responding to urgent contemporary ethical dilemmas and problems that go beyond any one ethical or religious tradition. John published, "Civilian Vulnerability in Contemporary War: Lessons from the War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo" in Can War Be Just in the 21st Century? Ethicists Engage the Tradition (Orbis Books 2015). David obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia.