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Half-day conference in December 2019 at New America in Washington, DC bringing together thought leaders engaged with moral injury and the profound impact of the lived experience of war. Speakers included: David Luban, Georgetown University; Maj. (ret.) Ian Fishback, former Special Forces officer named by TIME magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world after sending Sen. John McCain a letter on prisoner abuse in Iraq; Dr. Kate McGraw, Psychological Health Center of Excellence, Defense Health Agency; David Wood, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for his work on moral injury; C. Anthony Pfaff, U.S. Army War College; Caroline Johnson, author and former F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot; Lt. Col. Michael Manning, Fletcher School; Nancy Sherman, Georgetown University, author of Afterwar: Healing the Moral Wounds of Our Soldiers. The event was co-sponsored by the Center, New America and the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at George Mason University.