Gregory M. Reichberg is Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). His research spans issues in Thomistic moral psychology, the history of ethical thinking about war and peace, artificial intelligence, including its applications within the military domain, and contemporary just war theory. He has held appointments in philosophy at the Catholic University of America and Fordham University, as well as in political science at the University of Oslo. He has led the Oslo-based Research School on Peace and Conflict and was director of the PRIO Cyprus Centre in Nicosia, where he coordinated research and dialogue activities in search of a political settlement to the island’s division. He has also led dialogue activities involving Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon.
A member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, he has also served as consultor to the Holy See’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, where his contribution focused on disarmament, the ethical implications of new military technologies, and broader issues of war and peace.
Reichberg co-leads a multi-year research project, “Ethical Risk Assessment of AI-Enabled Weapons”; funded by the Research Council of Norway.
His writings include a monograph Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2017), named an “Outstanding Academic Title 2017” by Choice magazine.
