Gregory M. Reichberg
Research Professor
Email: greg.reichberg@prio.org
Work phone: +47 22 54 77 53
Mobile phone: +47 40 28 62 22
Twitter: @GregReichberg
Research Interests
Military ethics, artificial intelligence, religion and politics
Gregory M. Reichberg is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO).
Reichberg leads Warring with Machines: Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence and the Relevance of Virtue Ethics, a four-year project funded by the Research Council of Norway's Research Programme on the Cultural Conditions Underlying Social Change (SAMKUL).
He is co-head (with Gentian Zyberi) of the Research School on Peace and Conflict.
From 2009-2012 he was director of the PRIO Cyprus Centre in Nicosia, where he coordinated research and dialogue activities on the search for a political settlement to the island's division. Over the last fifteen years he has been engaged in religious dialogue on social/political issues in Iraq and other settings.
Reichberg's writings include a monograph Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2017), named an "Outstanding Academic Title 2017" by Choice magazine.
He has also published several co-edited volumes, including Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy (Springer, 2021), Religion, War, and Ethics: A Sourcebook of Textual Traditions (Cambridge University Press, 2014); World Religions and Norms of War (United Nations University Press, 2009); and The Ethics of War: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Blackwell Publishing, 2006).
In 2020 his publications include "Applying AI on the Battlefield: The Ethical Debates" (with Henrik Syse), in Robotics, AI, and Humanity (Springer); "Scholastic Arguments for and against Religious Freedom," in The Thomist, and "Human Nature, Peace, and War," in A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age, 800-1450 (Bloomsbury).
Scholastic Arguments for and against Religious Freedom
Journal Article in The Thomist: a Speculative Quarterly Review
Human Nature, Peace, and War
Book Chapter in A Cultural History of Peace in the Medieval Age, 800-1450
Restrictive versus Permissive Double Effect: Interpreting Aquinas
Journal Article in Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association
Large-Scale Investment Management: The Peace Potential of a Sovereign Wealth Fund
Book Chapter in Business, Peacebuilding and Sustainable Development
Thomas Aquinas on Battlefield Martyrdom
Book Chapter in Chivalrous Combatants? the Meaning of Military Virtue Past and Present
Prudential War in the Utopia
Book Chapter in Thomas More’s Utopia, 500 Years On… and Counting
Reframing the Catholic Understanding of Just War
Journal Article in Journal of Religious Ethics
Threats and Coercive Diplomacy: An Ethical Analysis
Journal Article in Ethics and International Affairs
Journet on the Impossibility of Christian Holy War
Journal Article in Nova et Vetera
Jacques Maritain, Spain, and Holy War
Book Chapter in Engaging the Times: the Witness of Thomism
Workshop on Ethical Issues in Peace Negotiations and Mediation
On 9-10 September 2021, around 20 researchers met for a hybrid online-offline workshop to share their research on specific cases of ethical issues in peace negotiations and mediation. The workshop was part of the PRIO project 'On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation' (FAIR) and included both PRIO researchers and researchers from across the world.
Greg Reichberg Appointed Consultor to Holy See Dicastery
Last January, Pope Francis appointed Greg Reichberg as consultor to the Holy See's Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
NORM: New Project on the Digital Silk Road
The NORM project aims at finding out how China’s Digital Silk Road shapes the digital world order and its norms, and the agency that recipient developing countries exercise in response. This is one out of five PRIO projects that today have received funding from the Research Council of Norway.
New Book “Robotics, AI, and Humanity” Co-Edited by Greg Reichberg
PRIO Research Professor Gregory M. Reichberg has co-edited a new volume titled "Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy".
PRIO Joins EU Network of Non-Proliferation and disarmament think tanks
PRIO has now joined the European Network of non-proliferation and disarmament think tanks, established by the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium. The Network gathers researchers who wish to share their work with their academic colleagues, as well as with both European authorities and the key decision-makers within EU Member States.
NORHED II funding for global network on Peace and Conflict and Human Rights research
Norad has awarded funding through its NORHED II scheme for a six-year project to strengthen higher education institutions' ability to produce high-quality research and teaching. The project was initiated by The Norwegian Center for Human Rights (NCHR) and the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) in partnership with five leading institutions in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.
Project on the Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation Receives Funding
What makes peace negotiations fair?
This is the over-arching question asked in the project On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation, which has now received three years of NORGLOBAL funding from the Research Council of Norway.
Congratulations to project leader Henrik Syse, and the other project participants: Kristoffer Lidén (PRIO), Kwesi Aning (KAIPTC), Fitriani (CSIS), Cedric de Coning (NUPI), Eli Stamnes (NUPI), Harry Tzimitras (PRIO Cyprus Centre), Zenonas Tziarras (PRIO Cyprus Centre), Torunn L. Tryggestad (PRIO), Gregory M. Reichberg (PRIO), Nadim Khoury (PRIO), Wenche Hauge (PRIO), Kristian Berg Harpviken (PRIO), Jenny Lorentzen (PRIO), Isabel Bramsen (University of Copenhagen) and Eric Stollenwerk (Freie Universität Berlin).
Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence - Ethics Project Now Funded
Congratulations to Greg Reichberg on funding from the SAMKUL call of the Research Council of Norway for a four-year project: Warring with Machines: Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence and the Relevance of Virtue Ethics. The PRIO team also consists of Henrik Syse and Mareile Kaufmann, and in addition a full-time PhD researcher.
Successful Conference on Youth in Iraq
On 2-4 February, PRIO co-organized a conference in Kyrenia (north Cyprus) titled Youth in Iraq: Developing Capacities for Active Citizenship. Iraqis from different regions, political orientations, and religious communities attended the event, along with participants from Cyprus, Norway, Switzerland, and the United States.
Gregory Reichberg's Book Among "Outstanding Academic Titles 2017"
Greg Reichberg's book Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace is among the titles chosen for the prestigious Outstanding Academic Titles 2017 list in Choice magazine, which sees only ten percent of approximately 6,000 eligible reviewed titles awarded.
The criteria for selection in this list includes overall the reviewer's evaluation, excellence in presentation and scholarship, importance relative to other literature in the field, distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form, originality or uniqueness of treatment, value to undergraduate students, and importance in building undergraduate library collections.
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Warring with Machines: Meeting of the Philosophers
Digital Brains: Neuroscience, Philosophy and Law in Conversation
Iran and Saudi Arabia: Between Enmity and Amity
Trustbuilding in Iraq: Current Challenges and Opportunities
Norway and the Nuclear Weapons Ban: What Comes Next?
Human Rights and Inclusive Citizenship - Conditions for Co-Existence in Conflict-Ridden Societies
How Can Improved Food Security Alleviate Conflict?
Nuclear Security: Current Challenges and Opportunities
Migration, Transnationalism and Catholicism
Life After Syria
Shaping the Digital World Order: Norms and Agency along the Digital Silk Road in Southeast Asia (NORM)
Digital Competence for Defense (DigiComp)
The Role of Dual-Use Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technology in the Current International “Arms” Race
On Fair Terms: The Ethics of Peace Negotiations and Mediation (FAIR)
Warring with Machines: Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence and the Relevance of Virtue Ethics
