IOWGT International Advisory Board
The IDEOLOGIES OF WAR, GENOCIDE AND TERROR Website and Newsletter are major resources for scholarship on the roots and meanings of collective forms of violence. Our Website publishes papers, book excerpts and book chapters by outstanding authors on this topic. Our Newsletter reaches over 34,000 subscribers—scholars throughout the world—who receive essays, book reviews, and information on significant conferences.
The IOWGT INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD brings together a broad cross-section of outstanding thinkers, authors and leaders—representing many countries and a wide range of disciplines—who support the mission of our Website and Newsletter. Each board member has made significant contributions illuminating the sources of political and religious forms of violence.
The write-ups below tell you a bit about each board member, provide information on a significant title he or she has authored—and a link to a significant publication available online. We hope you will read board members' publications and explore their other online resources. For additional details on any board members' book title and how to purchase it (at a special discount rate)—click a photo below.
- Mark Ayyash
Graduate Researcher,
York University Center for International Security Studies
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- Carol Mann, Ph.D.
President, Women in War
Paris, France
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- Louis Rene Beres, Ph.D.
Professor of Political Science
Purdue University
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- Michael Roberts
Professor of Anthropology
University of Adelaide, Australia
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- Louis S. Berger, Ph.D.
Private Practice
San Antonio, Texas
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- Howard F. Stein, Ph.D.
Professor,
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
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- David M. Hart
Director, Online Library of Liberty
Liberty Fund, Inc.
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- Mikkel Thorup
Professor, Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas,
Aarhus University, Denmark
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 DAVID HART received a Ph.D. in history from King's College, Cambridge. He then taught for 15 years in the Department of History at the University of Adelaide in South Australia where he was awarded the University teaching prize. Since 2001 he has been the Director of the Online Library of Liberty Project at Liberty Fund in Indianapolis. The OLL has won several awards including a "Best of the Humanities on the Web" Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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 Carol Mann is a Franco-British social anthropologist and art historian, writer and novelist. She specializes in Gender and Armed Conflict from a historical point of view, but focuses especially on Bosnia and Afghanistan. She started the first seminars in Paris on War and Gender and is currently planning one in conjunction with Amnesty International via her academic association, Women in War.
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 Mikkel Thorup is associate professor at the Institute of Philosophy and the History of Ideas. He specializes in the intellectual history of violent ideas, tyrannicide, revolution, war, terrorism, piracy, humanitarian interventions, etc., and their legitimizations.
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 Michael Roberts is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Trained in intellectual history and political economy, Roberts’ research currently focuses on suicide bombing and the dynamics of “sacrificial devotion.” His paper, “Suicide Missions as Witnessing” recently was published in Studies in Conflict and Terrorism (Taylor & Francis). You can follow Michael on his blog.
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 Louis René Beres is a professor of Political Science at Purdue University. He lectures and publishes widely on matters of terrorism, strategy and international law. He is the author of several books on nuclear war and nuclear terrorism. Professor Beres’ most recent articles have appeared in International Security (Harvard), and in the Policy Paper series of the Ariel Center for Policy Research (Israel). His opinion columns appear in such major newspapers as The New York Times and The Washington Post.
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 Howard F. Stein is Professor at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. He is the author of fourteen books and over one-hundred scholarly papers. His long-term interests include ethnicity, nationalism, the psychoanalytic study of organizations, families and groups, American culture, and the psychology of Jewish history.
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 Mark Ayyash, a graduate researcher, is completing his dissertation at York University's Centre for International and Security Studies. His research focuses on critical social and political theory; politics and violence; language and dialogue; the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; and US invasion of Iraq. He has published on the neoconservative discourse and the Iraq War; and on the 'violent dialogue' between Hamas and the Israeli State.
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Louis S. Berger’s professional and academic career spans the fields of clinical/experimental psychology, engineering and applied physics, and music. Dr. Berger has consulted widely in clinical psychology, was staff psychologist at Southwest Research Institute, and taught in the psychiatry departments of the medical schools in Louisville, Kentucky, and San Antonio, Texas, where he currently is in private practice.
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Dr. Hart has edited the Collected Works of Frédéric Bastiat in 6 volumes, the first volume of which was published in March 2011. For details on how to purchase this title, please click the photo.
Mann's book, Femmes afghanes en guerre, examines the lives of Afghan women from historical, social and ethnographic perspectives, taking into account the changes attempted by various governments from the early twentieth century until today. For details on how to purchase this title, please click the photo.
In An Intellectual History of Terror, Thorup investigates terrorism and anti-terrorism as related and interacting phenomena, undertaking a simultaneous reading of terrorist and statist ideologists to reconstruct the “deadly dialogue” between them. For details on how to purchase this title, please click the photo.
Caste Conflict and Elite Formation is a study in the social history of Sri Lanka. It emphasizes the significance of the patterns of caste discrimination and caste interaction in Sri Lankan politics. For details on how to purchase this title, please click the photo.
In Security or Armageddon, Beres brings together a panel of experts (including Avi Beker, Robert A. Friedlander and Burns H. Weston) who discuss the options, strategies and ethics of Israel's nuclear capability. For details on how to purchase this title, please click the photo.
Stein's book The Dream of Culture presents a provocative theory of the relationship of culture to dreaming. Stein studies the process of culture change in both anthropological & psychodynamic terms. For details on how to purchase this title, please click the photo.
In Averting Global Extinction, Berger devises a sociocultural therapy patterned after an individual psychotherapy framework to supplement the standard approaches to global threats. For details on how to purchase this title, please click the photo.