Schedule at a Glance

March 21, 4-8 pm

Public hearing
Location: The Riverside Church Nave, New York City

• Screening of Soldiers of Conscience
• Testimony from Veterans
• Briefings from Expert Witnesses

March 22, 9 am-4 pm

Meeting of Commissioners and Testifiers (closed to public)

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WHO WILL BE ON THIS COMMISSION?

 

Honorary Host:

• Chaplain (Colonel) Herman Keizer, Jr., U. S. Army Chaplain, retired; Director of Chaplaincy Ministries for the Christian Reformed Church in North America; Former Chair, National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces America.  Read Rev. Keizer's bio here >>
  

 

Commission Chair:

• Rev. Dr. Kaia Stern, Director of the Pathways Home Project at the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School.  Read Dr. Stern's bio here >>
  

 

Testifiers and Expert Witnesses    Click here to read testifier bios >>

• Tyler Boudreau, former US Marine Captain, Iraq War veteran, and author of Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine
• Joshua Casteel, Army veteran and Conscientious Objector, former Army Interrogator at Abu Ghraib; featured in the documentary, Soldiers of Conscience
• Jake Diliberto, OEF and OIF US Marine Veteran, Founder of Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan, Fuller Theological Seminary
• Logan Mehl-Laituri, Army veteran with service in Iraq during OIF II, and co-founder of Centurion's Guild
• Camilo Mejia, Army veteran and conscientious objector, author of Road from Ar Ramadi, featured in the documentary, Soldiers of Conscience
  
  
• Nurah-Rosalie P. Jeter Amat'ullah, Executive Director, Muslim Women's Institute for Research and Development and Manuscript Librarian, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Graduate Certificate in Islamic Chaplaincy, Hartford Seminary
• Dr. Camillo "Mac" Bica, Professor of Philosophy, School of Visual Arts (NYC), former Marine Corps Officer and Vietnam Veteran
• Chris Hedges, former war correspondent for the New York Times and author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
• Rabbi Douglas E. Krantz, Congregation B'nai Yisrael; Member, Executive Board, Jewish Peace Fellowship
• Rev. Dr. Pamela Lightsey, Associate Vice President, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary, veteran, expert in just war theories in Christianity
• J. E. McNeil, Executive Director, Center on Conscience & War, legal expert
• Dr. Jonathan Shay, VA clinical psychiatrist, national PTSD expert, Macarthur Genius winner, and author of Achilles in Vietnam and Odysseus in America
• Celeste Zappala, Member of Gold Star Families Speak Out; Mother of Sgt Sherwood Baker, Pennsylvania National Guardsman, killed in Baghdad, April 26, 2004, while searching for weapons of mass destruction.

 

Commissioners    Click here to download PDF list of Commissioner bios >>

• Sister Aisha al-Adawiya, Executive Director, Women in Islam, Inc.


• Michael Baxter, National Secretary, Catholic Peace Fellowship
• Rev. Dr. Maxine Beach, President, Drew University Theological School, NJ
• Michael Blake, US Army veteran, Board Chair and Program Manager, Veterans Sanctuary Inc.
  
• Curtis Book, Peace and Justice Coordinator for East Coast Region, Mennonite Central Committee U.S.
  
• Dr. Elizabeth Bounds, Professor, Candler School of Theology, GA
• Rev. Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock, Director, Faith Voices for the Common Good, CA
• Elaine Brower, Military Families Speak Out - New York City Chapter, Mother of US Marine Staff Sgt. deployed three times in GWOT
• Ernestine Buscemi, Presiding Clerk, New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
  


• Fr. Drew Christiansen, Editor, America Magazine
• Shane Claiborne, Founding Partner, The Simple Way Community, and author of Jesus for President
  
• Charlie Clements, President, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
• Thad Crouch, US Army veteran, Stand With Honor
  


• Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Associate Professor of Religion, Moravian  College
  
• Frederick R. Dettmer, Clerk, Witness Coordinating Committee, New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
  
• Dr. Glory Dharmaraj, Director of Spiritual Formation & Mission Theology, Women's Division of the General Board of Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church
• Dr. Valerie Elverton Dixon, independent scholar, Just Peace Theory.com
• Megan Dowdell, Ph.D. candidate in Ethics and Social Theory, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
• Tom F. Driver, The Paul J. Tillich Professor of Theology and Culture Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary in New York
• Pieter Dykhorst, US Army veteran, Orthodox Peace Fellowship
  

• Elizabeth Eggert, M.Div. Candidate, Andover Newton Theological School
• Michael Ellick, Associate Pastor, Judson Memorial Church, NY
  
  
• Dr. Joseph Fahey, Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College, Co-founder and former General Secretary and Chairperson of Pax Christi USA
• Chaplain Judy Seicho Fleischman, Buddhist Peace Fellowship, NY
  
• Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., Senior Minister Emeritus, Riverside Church, NY

• Bill Galvin, Counseling Coordinator, Center on Conscience & War
• Martha Gardner, National Executive Council member, Episcopal Peace Fellowship
  
• Naomi Paz Greenberg, New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
  


• Dr. Mahjabeen Hassan, American Muslim Women's Association
• Rev. Dr. Richard Hamm, Christian Churches Together
• John Helmiere, M.Div. graduating student, Yale Divinity School, New Haven, CT
• Marinetta Cannito Hjort, Baptist Chaplain, American University, and International Trainer on Restorative Justice and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation
  
• Dru Howard, Navy veteran and M.Div. candidate, Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, CA
• Rev. Peggy Howland, National Committee Member, Presbyterian Peace Fellowship
  
• Charon Hribar, Ph.D. Curriculum Development and Replication Coordinator for the Poverty Initiative at Union Theological Seminary and candidate in Christian Social Ethics, Drew University, Madison, NJ
  
• Richard Hughes, Senior Fellow, Ernest L. Boyer Center, Distinguished Professor of Religion, Messiah College
  
• Dr. George Hunsinger, Professor, co-founder of National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ
• Dr. Alice Hunt, President, Chicago Theological Seminary, IL
  
  
• Rev. Alvin O. Jackson, Pastor, Park Ave. Christian Church
• Mark Johnson, Executive Director, Fellowship of Reconciliation, NY


• Dr. Anne Klaeysen, Leader, New York Society for Ethical Culture
  
• Mark Koenig, Coordinator, Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, Compassion, Peace and Justice Ministry, General Assembly Mission Council, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
• Imam Kasim Kopuz, Islamic Organization of the Southern Tier


• Rev. Peter Laarman, Director, Progressive Christians Uniting
• Daniel Lakemacher, US Navy veteran and staff member, Center on Conscience & War
• James Lavoy, graduating senior in Political and Social Theory, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
  
• Dr. Kristen J. Leslie, Professor, Yale University Divinity School, CT
• Rev. Dr. Gabriella Lettini, Professor, Starr King School for the Ministry, CA
• Andrea Levine, Program Coordinator, Veterans Sanctuary Inc.
  
• Nan Levinson, Writer and Lecturer, Tufts University

• Daniel Maguire, Professor of Social Ethics, Marquette University, WI
• Miriam Marton, Attorney, New York, NY
  
• Ray McGovern, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), Washington DC
• Rev. Rosemary Bray McNatt, Senior Minister, Fourth Universalist Society
• Robert Emmet Meagher, Professor of Humanities, Hampshire College; Founder, The Nostoi Project: Stories of War and Return
• Peter Vander Meulen, Coordinator, Office of Social Justice and Hunger Action, Christian Reformed Church in North America
• Rich Meyer, Mennonite Church USA representative to the US-World Council of Churches Committee of the Decade to Overcome Violence; Member, Christian Peacemaker Teams
• David Miller, Associate Professor, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary
• Zachary Moon, VA chaplain and M.Div. candidate, Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, IL
• Jim Murphy, International Veterans Fellowship of Reconciliation


• Rev. T.K. Nakagaki, Sensei, New York Buddhist Church


• Rev. Dr. Rebecca Parker, President, Starr King School for the Ministry, CA
• Alexander Patico, North American Secretary, Orthodox Peace Fellowship
  
• Dr. Jack Patterson, retired, Quaker United Nations Office
• Titus Peachey, Director of Peace Education, Mennonite Central Committee, U.S.; Counselor, GI Rights Hotline


• Garland Robertson, Pastor, Austin Mennonite Church, Institute to Honor Freedom of Conscience


• Father Philip G. Salois, M.S., Vietnam Combat Infantry Veteran; Roman Catholic Priest; Chief, Chaplain Service-VA Boston Healthcare System; National Chaplain for Vietnam Veterans of America
  
• Daniel A. Seeger, former Executive Director, American Friends Service Committee New York Metropolitan Region
• Rev. Ken Sehested, Founding Executive Director, Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America
• Dr. Donald W. Shriver, Jr.,  Professor of Ethics and President Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary
• Dr. Peggy L. Shriver, retired executive, National Council of Churches of Christ
• Rev. Sam Smith, Chicago Chapter Chair of Fellowship of Reconciliation; D.Min. candidate, Fuller Theological Seminary; and advocate for the I Will Not Kill Campaign
  

• Ms. Eda Uca-Dorn, United Church of Christ, Justice and Witness Ministries, Christian Peace Witness
• Rick Ufford-Chase, Executive Director, Presbyterian Peace Fellowship and Co-founder, Community of Living Traditions
  
  
• Jason Vance, Army National Guard veteran and M.Div. candidate, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, IN
  
• Jose Vasquez, Executive Director, Iraq Veterans Against the War; Veteran, US Army and Army Reserves


• Rabbi Arthur Waskow, The Shalom Center, PA
• Rev. Dr. Traci West, Professor, Drew University Theological School, NJ
• Jennifer Whitten, M.Div. candidate, Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, CA
  
• Rev. Carol Wickersham, Professor of Sociology, Beloit College, Coordinator of No2Torture
• David Wildman, Executive Secretary for Human Rights & Racial Justice, General Board of Global Ministries - United Methodist Church
• Ann Wright, Former Diplomat, US Foreign Service; Retired US Army Reserve Colonel

Commission Roles and Responsibilities  pdf  |  doc