John Kiess is Assistant Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland. His dissertation, When War is Our Daily Bread: Congo and the Ethics of Contemporary Armed Conflict, addresses the challenges of contemporary violence through the lens of the world's deadliest conflict since WWII. He has received numerous honors and fellowships including the George J. Mitchell Scholarship, the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship, and the Evan Frankel Fellowship. John worked for several years as a community organizer in an underprivileged neighborhood in Charlottesville, VA, and has been actively invol...