Dr. of Science, PhD., col.(ret.) Boris Kashnikov is a professor of moral and political philosophy at National Research University "Higher School of Economics", Moscow. In 2003 – 2004 he was a Director of the Moscow office of the International Crisis Group (ICG) and in 1988-2003 a department chair at the Moscow University of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 1993-1994 worked with the United Nations protection forces in the former Yugoslavia as a civilian police station commander. Decorated with the UN medal "For the Service of Peace".  In 1989 worked in the USSR peace-making mission in Nagorno Karabakh. He is a Fulbright visiting fellow in the USA (George Mason University 2010-2011, Emory University 1999-2000 and Mershon Center for International Security Studies of the Ohio State University 1996 -1997). DAAD visiting professor at Ruhr University center of International Law of Peace and Military conflict, (2017-2018, 2013-2014 and 2004-2005). He was on fellowship at the University of Oxford and military academies in Brussels and Saint-Cyr. Published widely on moral problems of War and Peace and problems of social justice in both Russian and English. His publications in English include a monograph “Terrorism. The New World Disorder”, London: Continuum, 2007 (in co-authorship). Publications in Russian include a monograph "Liberal Theories of Justice and the Russian Political Practice", Velikiy Novgorod: NovMION, 2004. A member of the board of directors of the International Society for Military Ethics in Europe (EuroISME).