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Associate Professor Ned Dobos is a Senior Lecturer in International and Political Studies at UNSW Canberra, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales. He holds a PhD and specializes in the ethics of war and political violence, humanitarian intervention, pacifism, non-violence, and post-military defence systems, as well as professional ethics and employment and workplace relations. Dobos is the author of two books: Ethics, Security, and the War Machine: The True Cost of the Military (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Insurrection and Intervention: The Two Faces of Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He co-edited Challenges for Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical Demand and Political Reality (Oxford University Press, 2018). His research has been published in prominent journals such as Philosophical Studies, Ethics and International Affairs, Journal of Applied Philosophy, Journal of Moral Philosophy, and International Studies Quarterly. Notable articles include 'Military Abolitionism: A Critical Typology' (International Studies Quarterly, 2022), 'Are strikes extortionate?' (Philosophical Studies, 2022), 'Pharmacological Prophylaxes against Moral Injury' (Monash Bioethics Review, 2023), and 'The Moral Price of Preparedness' (Acorn, 2023).

Dobos has held visiting appointments at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, the MacMillan Centre for International Studies at Yale University, the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University, and the Department of Philosophy at Georgetown University. He serves as Associate Director of the International Society for Military Ethics (Asia-Pacific chapter), co-editor of the Australian Journal of Human Rights (Taylor and Francis), and associate editor of the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence (Brill). His scholarship, with over 400 citations on Google Scholar, has advanced discussions in military ethics, applied philosophy, business ethics, and political theory.