Nir Eisikovits

Nir Eisikovits is a professor of philosophy and founding director of the Applied Ethics Center at UMass Boston. Before coming to UMass he was associate professor of legal and political philosophy at Suffolk University, where he co-founded and directed the Graduate Program in Ethics and Public Policy. Professor Eisikovits' research focuses on the moral and political dilemmas arising after war, the culture of war and the ethics of technology. His books include A Theory of Truces (Palgrave MacMillan), Sympathizing with the Enemy: Reconciliation, Transitional Justice, Negotiation (Brill) Theorizing Transitional Justice (Routledge) and the forthcoming Glory, Humiliation and the Drive to war (Cambridge). He is also guest editor for a recent issue of Theoria on The Idea of Peace in the Age of Asymmetrical Warfare. Eisikovits has written numerous articles on political reconciliation, transitional justice, the role of forgiveness in politics, truth commissions, the ethics of war and the ethics of AI. In addition to his scholarly work, Nir has advised NGOs focused on conflict resolution and comments frequently on political conflict and the ethics of technology for American newspapers and magazines. His op-eds and essays have appeared in the Boston Globe, the Christian Science Monitor, the Miami Herald, the National Interest, Slate, the Forward, Cognoscenti, and the National Interest among others.