**Wolfgang Palaver**

Wolfgang Palaver is Professor of Catholic Social Thought at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He is interested in violence and religion, peace ethics and ethics of democracy. He has published books and articles on violence and religion, Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, Simone Weil, Rene Girard, and Mahatma Gandhi. In fall 2018, he was a member ´ of the research workshop on religion and violence at the Center of Theological Inquiry (CTI) at Princeton (USA). From January to June 2021, he conducted a research project on Gandhi's concept of nonviolence at The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study.
