Cheyney Ryan is a senior research fellow at Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict, where he focuses on nonviolence, pacifism, and the critique of just war theory. He has been named one of the leading scholars in peace and conflict studies by the Washington Post and received the Joseph J. Blau Prize from the Society for Advancement of American Philosophy for significant contributions to the history of American philosophy. He is co-chair of the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights, and has received wide recognition for his work on social justice, including an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Quinnipiac University for his “steadfast commitment to peace on our planet.”
"""Like no other philosopher in recent times, Cheyney Ryan has developed the pacifist tradition in our age of forever wars. In this arresting rearticulation of his views, Ryan buttresses the moral case against war with a historical and sociological account of why it continues and what would have to change for it to end. There is no more important and necessary book on the subject."" —Samuel Moyn, Yale University, author of “Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War”"