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Edward T. Barrett is the Director of Research at the U.S. Naval Academy's Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, and an ethics professor in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law.

Raised in suburban Chicago, he attended the University of Notre Dame on an Air Force ROTC scholarship. After serving nine years as an active duty C-130 instructor and examiner pilot, he began doctoral studies in political theory at the University of Chicago. While in graduate school, he served for two years as speechwriter to the Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, was an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago, and continued to serve as an instructor pilot in the Air Force Reserves.

Completing his Ph.D. in 2003, he was recalled to active duty for Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom, and served four deployments as an operations officer and aircraft commander. He returned to academia in 2006 as a research fellow and ethics professor at the Naval Academy, and assumed his current position at the Stockdale Center in 2008.

He is also a reserve Colonel at the Pentagon in the Air Force Headquarters Directorate of Strategic Planning, and the author of Human Persons and Liberal Democracy: The Ethical and Political Thought of Karol Wojtyla/John Paul II (Lexington, 2010).

I am a professor of political psychology and the head of the School of Political Science at University of Haifa. My research focuses on the micro-foundations of political conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere. I am particularly interested in the impact of individual-level exposure to terrorism and political violence on war/peace attitudes. I study psycho-political responses to multiple acts of political violence and terrorism. Methodologically, I use controlled randomized field experiments, spatial analysis, survey experiments, bio-political and physiological-political research.

I have received over $3 million in research grants to study people in conflict zones. Grantors include the Israel Science Foundation, United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation, Yale’s McMillan Center, Yale’s institution for Social and Policy Studies, Israel Ministry of Science, Technology , and Space, START project, and the National Institutes of Health. I serve on the editorial boards of The Journal of Political Psychology, Journal of Peace Research, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution. I was a Fulbright Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Notre Dame University, as well as a Rice Family Foundation Visiting Professor at the Council on Middle East Studies, the MacMillan Center and the Department of Political Science, Yale University. My awards include the International Society of Political Psychology’s Erik Erikson Early Career Award and Roberta Sigel Award, and the American Political Science Association’s award for Best Paper.

I have written widely on the psychological reactions to war, violence and terrorism, and published in journals such as American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Psychiatry – Interpersonal and Biological Processes, Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Armed Forces & Society, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Electoral Studies, Journal of Peace Research.

When I’m not chasing missing cortisol samples across checkpoints in the West Bank and Gaza, I enjoy chillaxing with my family, cycling and running.

Dr. Choi designed and oversees the Master of Science in Criminal Justice concentration and certificate in Cybercrime Investigation & Cybersecurity, offered jointly by the Department of Applied Social Sciences and Department of Computer Science. Choi’s research focuses on the intersection of human behavior and technology—and how criminal justice can respond effectively to the challenges of cybercrime. In 2008, he proposed his Cyber-Routine Activities Theory, which has become a predominant theory on cybercrime and computer crime victimization. In 2009, the Korean Institute of Criminology, in cooperation with United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), invited Choi to facilitate the UN’s Virtual Forum against Cybercrime (VFAC) as an instructor. His work has appeared in numerous criminal justice journals, and his books include Cyber Criminology and Digital Investigation (LFB Scholarly Publishing, October 2015) and Risk Factors in Computer Crime (LFB Scholarly Publishing, August 2010) .

Timothy H. Edgar is a former national security and intelligence official, cybersecurity expert, privacy lawyer and civil liberties activist. Edgar joined the American Civil Liberties Union shortly before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He left the ACLU to try to make a difference by going inside America’s growing surveillance state – a story he tells in Beyond Snowden: Privacy, Mass Surveillance and the Struggle to Reform the NSA, winner of the 2018 Chicago-Kent College of Law/Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize.

In 2006, Edgar became the intelligence community’s first deputy for civil liberties, advising the director of national intelligence during the George W. Bush administration. In 2009, after President Barack Obama announced the creation of a new National Security Council position “specifically dedicated to safeguarding the privacy and civil liberties of the American people,” Edgar moved to the White House, where he advised Obama on privacy issues in cybersecurity policy.

In 2013, Edgar left government for Brown University to help launch its professional cybersecurity degree program and he is now a senior fellow at Brown’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Edgar also works to help companies navigate cybersecurity problems and is on the advisory board of Virtru, which offers simple encryption software for businesses and individuals.

Edgar is a contributing editor to “Lawfare: Hard National Security Choices,” published in partnership with the Brookings Institution. Edgar has been profiled by CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and his work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Guardian, Foreign Affairs, and Wired. Edgar was a law clerk to Judge Sandra Lynch, United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Dartmouth College.

Niva Elkin-Koren is a Professor of Law at the University of Haifa, Faculty of Law and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. She is the Founding Director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT), a Co-Director of the Center for Cyber, Law and Policy. During 2009-2012 she served as Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Haifa.

Her research focuses on innovation policy and access to knowledge, digital governance, online intermediaries, and the legal implications of AI and big data.

Prof. Elkin-Koren has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard University, Columbia Law School, UCLA, NYU, George Washington University and Villanova University School of Law. She is the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Council, of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society in Berlin, a member of the Executive Committee of Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP), and a board member of the MIPLC Scientific Advisory Board of the Munich IP Law Center at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition. She is also a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of the Copyright Society (since 2009) the Journal of Information Policy (since 2010) and the Internet Policy Review (since 2016).

Prof. Elkin-Koren received her LL.B from Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law in 1989, her LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1991, and her S.J.D from Stanford Law School in 1995.

Miguel Alberto Gomez is a Senior Researcher with the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from De La Salle University and a Master’s Degree in International Security from the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). He is currently working towards earning a doctoral degree in Political Science. Professionally, he served as a lecturer at both the De La Salle University and the College of St. Benilde in the Philippines where he taught courses in Computer Science and International Relations. Prior to entering academia, he worked in the Information Security industry where he took on a number of functions such as penetration testing and threat intelligence for both domestic and international organizations.

His research at the CSS focuses on decision-making in response to emergent and/or on-going interstate cyber conflict. His recent publications tackle the impact of pre-existing beliefs and policy preferences on attribution and escalation. These have appeared in journals such as Politics and Governance and the European Journal for International Security. Apart from the cognitive and affective aspects of decision-making in cyberspace, he is also interested in the development of cyber norms and the coercive potential of cyber operations.

Michael L. Gross is Professor of Political Science and past Head of the School of Political Science at the University of Haifa, Israel. He was born in Chicago and grew up in Skokie IL, leaving for Israel in 1971. After studying in Jerusalem, Evanston and Chicago he returned to Haifa in 1990 to teach at the University of Haifa.

Michael Gross has published widely in medical ethics, military ethics military medical ethics and related questions of medicine and national security. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Bioethics, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of Military Ethics, The Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, The Hastings Center Report, the Journal of Medical Ethics, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, the Journal of Cyber Security and elsewhere.

His books include Ethics and Activism (Cambridge 1997), Bioethics and Armed Conflict (MIT 2006), Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict (Cambridge 2010); The Ethics of Insurgency: A Critical Guide to Just Guerrilla Warfare (Cambridge 2015) and two edited volumes - Military Medical Ethics for the 21st Century (Routledge, Military and Defense Series, 2013) and Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict (Cambridge 2017). Ongoing projects include a book length study of military medical ethics during the Long War in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Michael Gross has been a visiting fellow at The University of Chicago, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and the European University Institute, Department of Political and Social Sciences in Florence, Italy. He serves on regional and national bioethics committees in Israel and has led workshops and lectured on battlefield ethics, medicine and national security for the Dutch Ministry of Defense, The US Army Medical Department at Walter Reed Medical Center, The US Naval Academy, The US Naval War College, The UK Defense Medical Services and the Medical Corps and National Security College of the Israel Defense Forces.

Dr. Jian Hua is a full professor in the Department of Business Management at the School of Business and Public Administration, the University of the District of Columbia. He also is the Department Chair and Associate Dean of Public Relations. His research interests include information security and cyber terrorism.

His papers have been published at several top academic journals. He served as a session chair in many conferences and a reviewer for several academic journals. His research has won the Best Interdisciplinary Research Paper in 2009 Decision Science National Conference and the Best Application Research Paper in 2011 Decision Science National Conference. He also is the first person who won two different Best Paper awards in the recent 20 years Decision Science National Conferences. His research interests are cyber terrorism, cyber security, and business competitive intelligence. In 2015 and 2016, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sponsored his research, “Civilians’ Economic Resilience to Cyber Terrorism Attacks”. In 2012, DHS sponsored his research, “Risk and Behavior of Cyber Terrorism.”

Joshua D. Kertzer is the Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University. His research specializes in the intersection of international security, political psychology, foreign policy, and public opinion. He is the author of Resolve in International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2016), along with articles appearing in a variety of academic journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, British Journal of Political Science, Conflict Management and Peace Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Politics, and World Politics. He has received the American Political Science Association's Helen Dwight Reid and Kenneth N. Waltz awards, the International Society of Political Psychology's Alexander George Award, the Peace Science Society's Walter Isard award, as well as fellowships at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University. At Harvard, he teaches classes on American foreign policy, international relations theory, and political psychology in international politics.

Nadiya Kostyuk is a doctoral candidate in Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on security studies, modern warfare, cyber conflict, cyber institutions and capability, Russian and Eurasian politics. Her methodological areas of interest include network analysis, mathematical/computational modeling and text analysis.

Nadiya’s research has been supported by the Belfer Center for Science and International Technology at Harvard's Kennedy School, the Department of Computer Science and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at the Tufts University, Cybersecurity, Internet Governance, Digital Economy, and Civic Tech Initiative at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

Her research has been published (or is forthcoming) in the Cyber Defense Review, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Strategic Security, and several edited volumes and general-audience publications.

Nadiya is the co-organizer (with Christopher Whyte) of the Digital Issues Discussion Group.

Nadiya received degrees from New York University (MSc), City University of New York John Jay College (B.A.) and Kyiv National Linguistic University (B.A.) and is currently a fellow at EastWest Institute of Global Cooperation in Cyberspace Initiative.

Arie W. Kruglanski is a Distinguished University Professor, a recipient of numerous awards, and is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society. He has served as editor of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition, editor of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and associate editor of the American Psychologist. His work in the domains of human judgment and belief formation, the motivation-cognition interface, group and intergroup processes, and the psychology of human goals has been disseminated in over 300 articles, chapters, and books, and has been continuously supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, NIMH, Deutsche Forschungs Gemeineschaft, the Ford Foundation and the Israeli Academy of Science. As a founding Co-PI and Co-Director of START (National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism), Kruglanski also conducts research with the support of grants from the Department for Homeland Security and from the Department of Defense on the psychological processes behind radicalization, deradicalization, and terrorism.

Prof. George R. Lucas is currently a professor of ethics and public policy at the Graduate School of Public Policy at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He has taught at Georgetown University, Emory University, Randolph-Macon College, the French Military Academy (Saint-Cyr), and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium.

His main areas of interest are applied moral philosophy and military ethics, and he has written on such topics as irregular and hybrid warfare, cyber conflict, military and professional ethics, and ethical challenges of emerging military technologies. His most recent book is Anthropologists in Arms: The Ethics of Military Anthropology (2009), and he has a commissioned work on military ethics in preparation for Oxford University Press, and is the editor of The Routledge Handbook on Military Ethics for publication in 2015.

Eviatar Matania (born June 11, 1966) is a professor at the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel-Aviv University, the Head of the Security Studies program. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Oxford University.

Prof. Matania is the founder and former Director General of the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD). In late 2011, Prime Minister Bejamin Netanyahu appointed him to establish and head the Israel National Cyber Bureau (INCB), starting to operate directly under the Prime Minister on January 1st, 2012, responsible for Israel's overall cyber policy and its implementation, as well as for the advancement of Israel's cyber ecosystem. According to Matania’s recommendations, in February 2015, the Israeli Government adopted two pioneering resolutions on the comprehensive cyber security strategy of Israel, including the establishment of a twin-entity to the existing INCB – a National Cyber Security Authority (NCSA). Together, the INCB and NCSA became the Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), and Matania was appointed as its Director General. He concluded his role in December 31, 2017 when he completed his six-year term.

Matania is a graduate of the elite academic program "Talpiot", and has held professional and leadership roles in Israel’s defense community across the fields of R&D, technological project management, intelligence analysis, and operations research. He also led the elite military-academic training programs for human capital in science and technology, subsequently, Matania worked in the Israeli hi-tech industry as an executive, an entrepreneur and as a venture capital investment lead, focusing on devising catalysts for start-ups and companies.

Prof. Matania has been a thought leader in policy, technology, and cyber strategy, participating in the foremost international fora, and engaged by leading global companies, top league universities and think tanks, where he has given talks and lectures (Harvard Kennedy School, Columbia SIPA, GW University, Chatham House, Council for Foreign Relations – CFR, Center for Strategic and International Studies – CSIS and Oxford University), as well as by top government officials and formal committees (such as Israeli Knesset Committees and US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Armed Services Cyber Sub-Committee).

A native Brit but raised in Copenhagen and Israel, Sharon attended the Hebrew University in Jerusalem earning her B.A. in Prehistoric and Evolutionary Archaeology. Whilst there, Sharon was recruited to the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office serving as an intelligence liaison officer.

Shifting to political science in 2011, Sharon earned her M.A. in Political Communications from Tel-Aviv University. It was during this time she worked at the Canadian Embassy as a spokesperson, cultural attaché and speechwriter to the Canadian Deputy Ambassador.

Today, Sharon is completing her thesis titled “Public Confidence: Ghosts of Terror Past and Cyberterror Future” under the mentorship of Prof. Daphna Canetti and Prof. Michael L. Gross. Her work is an intercontinental comparative survey-experiment focusing on personal-psychological responses to cyberterror and their effect on public confidence in government institutions.

When she is not reading papers about terror in the cybersphere, Sharon can be found camping and stargazing in the Israeli desert with her family or reading Benjamin Graham’s books on neoclassical investing. All this while checking-up on her shares.

Benjamin Miller is a Full Professor of International Relations at the University of Haifa. In the years 2000-2002 he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Political Science at Duke University. Before that he was a tenured member of the department of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received a Ph. D. from the University of California at Berkeley and he was a Research Fellow at Harvard, MIT and Princeton University.

A second and expanded edition of Miller’s book, When Opponents Cooperate: Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics (Ann Arbor, Michigan: The University of Michigan Press) was published in 2002. He also published numerous articles on international relations theory and international and regional security. His current work focuses on constructing a theory of regional war and peace and applying it to the Balkans, South America, Western Europe and the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries. The title of his forthcoming book is States, Nations, and the Great Powers: The Sources of Regional War and Peace (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2007). The book focuses on the effects of nationalism and the great powers on regional variations in war and peace both among different regions and also over time—from the l9th century to the 21 century.

Mr. Paul Moskovich is the Deputy Director General and Chief Executive Director of Cyber Operations at INCD (Israel National Cyber Directorate) at the Prime Minister's Office.

In this position, Mr. Moskovich leads and manages the National Cyber Operations Division, including the Israeli CERT (CERT-IL), the National Cyber TI (Threat Intelligence), the Cyber Threat Research and the National IR (Incident Response), Hunting and Engagement teams.

Mr. Moskovich is a senior Cyber Defense Expert with over 20 years of experience. He has served as the Director of Cyber Defense and CISO, working for some of the largest enterprises in Israel in the Aerospace& Defense, Finance and Communication sectors.

During his Reserve military service, at the Israeli Defense Forces, Mr. Moskovich serves as a Lieutenant Colonel and commands the ICT (Information Communication Technology) Cyber Operations and Defense at the Computer and IT Directorate. He has vast former combat experience as a field Intelligence Officer and as a Battalion Commander in the Logistic Corps.

Mr. Moskovich has a BA in Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology from the Haifa University. In addition, He is certified as a System Analyst by the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and as a Software Engineer by the Israeli Management College.

Mr. Oppenheimer is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University with a focus on international relations and technology. His dissertation centers on interest groups in the context of ICT security and governance, and examines the relationship between technology diffusion and cybersecurity. It utilizes technical administrative data, network analysis, document forensics, and fieldwork to understand how, in the absence of international law and organization, groups leverage legal, standards, and policy diffusion to manage the proliferation of ICTs. His other projects examine political and psychological context of cyber attacks, deliberation in international technology forumns, and social media engagement strategies during security crises.

Prior to beginning his doctorate, Mr. Oppenheimer was a research associate for national security at the Council on Foreign Relations. He received his BA Summa Cum Laude with High Honors in International Relations from New York University and my AM in Government from Harvard University. While at Harvard he worked with Alastair Iain Johnston on US-China cybersecurity issues and the implications of social media for international conflict, and with Stephen Ansolabehere as a research assistant for the Harvard CAPS/Harris Poll. Additionally, he is an affiliate of the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) and the Research Cluster on International Security at the Harvard Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Dr. Avi Ostfeld is a full Professor and the ATS Staff Academic Chair at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Ostfeld was a Senior Engineer and Project Manager at TAHAL – Consulting Engineers Ltd. in Tel – Aviv from 1997 to 2000; a Research Associate at the Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, from 1996 to 1997; and a Research Associate at the Technion Water Research Institute from 1994 to 1996.

Dr. Ostfeld's research contributions and professional activities are in the fields of water resources systems, and in particular in the area of water distribution systems optimization using evolutionary computation: water distribution systems security through optimal monitoring, water quality event detection, and booster chlorination station allocations, optimal design and operation of water distribution systems, and integrating water quality and reliability into water distribution systems management and control.

Dr. Ostfeld has published 128 manuscripts in refereed professional journals and 145 papers in conference proceedings; is the Editor of four books; was the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management Division of ASCE 2010-2016 which is the leading journal worldwide in water resources systems analysis in general, and in water distribution systems optimization in particular, an Editor for the IWA Journal of Water Science and Technology, was Associate Editor for Water Resources Research, and currently Associate Editor for Urban Water, and Engineering Optimization.

Dr. Deganit Paikowsky is an expert on International Relations with a unique focus, and first- hand experience in the interface and interrelations between geopolitics and technological domains. Over a period of 17 years, Dr. Paikowsky developed a comprehensive understanding of current and future trends of the global space market and cyberspace. She lectures at the Graduate program for Security and Diplomacy Studies at Tel Aviv University, and is a Non-resident Scholar at the Space Policy Institute at the Elliott School for Foreign Affairs, George Washington University. Her book, "The Power of the Space Club", was published by Cambridge University Press and explores the role of nation-state clubs in world politics using the case study of the space club. Deganit holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Tel Aviv University and was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at the Hebrew University. As a Ph.D. candidate, she won the Guggenheim Pre-Doctoral Fellowship of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institute. In 2017-2019, she served in a senior position at the Strategy and Capacity Building Division of the Israel National Cyber Directorate. In 2010-2016, she served as the coordinator of three different national committees for Israel's civil space policy. In these positions she led strategic planning processes relating to space policy and R&D at the national and international levels. She was part of the establishment team of and later Academic Director for the Yuval Neeman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security at Tel Aviv University where she developed the research portfolio and established a Global Space Activity group and a Global Cyber Activity group, both of which supported governmental decision making process in these areas. Dr. Paikowsky is an advocate for empowerment of women in science especially young girls. She is a 2018 Fellow of the International Women's Forum Leadership Foundation, and is a mother of three boys.

Prof. Pogrebna is a Professor of Behavioural Economics and Data Science at the University of Birmingham, Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, and Fellow at the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG). She studied Economics at the University of Missouri Kansas City (US) and the University of Innsbruck (Austria). She hold a Ph.D. in Economics and Social Sciences. Before coming to Birmingham, she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow Columbia University in New York (USA), the University of Bonn (Germany), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), the University of Innsbruck (Austria), and the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick (UK). She also held positions of the Leverhulme Research Fellow, Research Assistant Professor, and Research Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Sheffield and worked as an Associate Professor of Decision Science and Service Systems at WMG (University of Warwick). In November 2017 she was awarded ESRC-Turing Fellowship by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Alan Turing Institute (Turing). Together with Professor Karen Yeung and Professor Andrew Howes she leads Responsible AI Network at the University of Birmingham. She is also Turing University Lead for the University of Birmingham and Lead for Behavioural Data Science at the Alan Turing Institute.

Guy is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Haifa School of Political Sciences under the supervision of Professor Benjamin Miller.

Guy's research focuses on the Erosion of Power in Liberal States caused by Cyber Multi-National Corporations' Knowledge Power and its effect on the International System. The research focuses mainly on the Big5 cyber MNC's: Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.

Guy holds an B.A in Engineering from the Technion, Israeli institute of technology, M.A in Engineering from Ber-Sheva university, MBA from Tel-Aviv University and a M.A. in Politcal Science from Tel-Aviv, where he wrote his thesis on the use of offensive cyber weapons by the Islamic republic of Iran as a strategic tool In fulfilling its national security.

Thomas J. Scotto is a Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Strathclyde. His interests lie in the area of public opinion and applied quantitative methods (particularly structural equation and latent variable modelling). His recent ESRC and British academy funded work is in the area of cross-national public opinion on matters of foreign policy. His work on this subject appears in International Studies Quarterly, Political Behaviour, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and Canadian Foreign Policy. Professor Scotto's earlier work focused on American and Canadian voting behaviour and he co-authored the University of Toronto Press Book Making Political Choices: Canada and the United States. From 2007-2016, he was a member of the Department of Government at the University of Essex where he was the recipient of multiple teaching awards from the Essex Student Union. His consultancies include work on the development of "open government" indicators for the OECD, on "Parliamentary Strengthening" projects in Mozambique, Ukraine, and Georgia, and on survey design work in the United States and United Kingdom.

Ryan is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Haifa School of Political Sciences with a focus on technology, conflict and political theory. His research draws on theories of political psychology to understand the socio-political effects of cyber-terrorism and Internet age theories of political participation. He primarily utilizes natural experiments, large-N surveys and controlled laboratory procedures to study the individual and social level effects of Internet deprivation and terrorism. He has collected data through fieldwork and online panels in Kashmir, Israel, England and the United States.

Ryan is a research fellow at the Center for Cyber Law and Policy, and an inaugural fellow in the Idit Doctoral Fellowship Program. Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Ryan holds an LL.B. (Cum Laude) from the University of Melbourne and an M.A. from the University of Haifa.

Prior to beginning his doctorate, Ryan worked in third sector in legal, communication and operational roles at the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the Center for Jewish-Arab Education.

Dr. Sharvit is the head of the international MA Program for Peace and Conflict Management and faculty member in the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel. Her research interests include intergroup conflicts, societal beliefs and ideologies, effects of exposure to violence and terrorism, motivations for violence and extremism, and moral reasoning and moral emotions in situations of intergroup conflict as well as processes of avoiding them.

Dr. Keren L.G. Snider is a visiting postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University, NY, as well as an instructor at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Dr. L.G. Snider specializes in mass political attitudes and behavior, immigration and refugee politics,survey research, and the psycho-political consequences of terrorism in the Middle East. She uses rigorous quantitative methodologies to apply principles taken from political psychology to study public opinions under conflict and violence.

Dr. Valeriano currently serves as the Bren Chair of Military Innovation at the Marine Corps University. His work also includes serving as a Cyber Security Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and as Senior Advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. He is also the Area Editor for International Relations and Strategy for the Journal of Cybersecurity and General Editor for the Routledge Book Series on Conflict, Security and Technology.

His research is focused on cyber security, popular culture and conflict, race and ethnicity politics, and international conflict.

Dana R. Vashdi is a senior lecturer in the Division of Public Administration and Policy at The School of Political Science, The University of Haifa, Israel. Dana received her PhD in industrial/organizational psychology from the Technion, The Israel Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on public management and teamwork, and specifically on learning and innovation in such teams. She also investigates the factors influencing citizen and employee stress and well-being. She has published this research in scholarly journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Public Administration and Public Administration Review.

Dr. Waismel-Manor is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Political Science, University of Haifa. My work focuses on political attitude formation and its effects on voting behavior. His current projects explore the ways in which non-verbal communication, physiological stress, institutional settings and new media influence political preferences and behavior. His research was published in such journals as the Journal of Communication, PLOS One, Political Communication, Public Opinion Quarterly, International Journal of Press and Politics, Political Behavior, PS: Political Science and Politics and European Neuropsychopharmacology. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford University and Cornell University. His work has been featured in various media outlets including the New York Times, the Huffington Post, the Jerusalem Post, and Haaretz.