Panelists
Tim Philips: Tim is the founder and CEO of the NGO Beyond Conflict. Since 1992, he has led Beyond Conflict’s efforts to help catalyze the peace and reconciliation processes in several nations, including Northern Ireland, El Salvador, Kosovo and South Africa. He has also advised the United Nations, the U.S Department of State, and the Council of Europe. He was educated at Suffolk University and the London School of Economics and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Suffolk University in 2018.
Professor Heidi Ravven: Heidi is a professor at Hamilton College who specializes in the philosophy of the seventeenth century Jewish philosopher, Baruch Spinoza. She was the first philosopher to propose that Spinoza anticipated central discoveries in the neuroscience of the emotions. Heidi has published widely on Spinoza’s philosophic thought, on the twelfth century philosopher Moses Maimonides, on free will and the new brain sciences, and on Jewish ethics. In 2004 she received an unsolicited $500,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to write a book rethinking ethics. That book, The Self Beyond Itself: An Alternative History of Ethics, the New Brain Sciences, and the Myth of Free Will was published by The New Press in May, 2013.
Moderator
Jim Finkel, Nonresident Fellow, the Protecting Civilians in Conflict program, Stimson Center