Dr. David Whetham is Reader in Military Ethics in the Defense Studies Department of King’s College London. He is Director of the King’s Centre for Military Ethics and delivers or coordinates the military ethics component of courses for 2,000 to 3,000 British and international officers a year at the UK’s Joint Services Command and Staff College. He has held visiting fellowships at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, Annapolis, the Centre for Defence Leadership and Ethics at the Australian Defence College in Canberra, and at the University of Glasgow. He is also a regular visiting lecturer at the Baltic Defence College, the Military Academy in Belgrade, and for the Royal Brunei Armed Forces. Publications include “Ethics, Law and Military Operations” (2010), “Just Wars and Moral Victories” (2009), and together with Andrea Ellner and Paul Robinson (eds), “When Soldiers Say No: Selective Conscientious Objection in the Modern Military” (Ashgate, 2014). He is also the Vice President of the European Chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics (Euro ISME).

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