The International Society for Military Ethics (ISME) is an organization of military and security professionals, academics, and others formed to discuss ethical issues relevant to the military. Formerly known as Joint Services Conference on Professional Ethics (JSCOPE), this founding North American chapter of the Society has held conferences each year since 1979.

Euro-ISME, a European chapter of ISME, was established in France in 2012.

APAC-ISME, an Asia-Pacific chapter of ISME, was established in Australia in 2016.

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2026 Conference

ISME is pleased to announce our 2026 Conference on "Irregular Warfare Ethics", taking place 4-8 June 2026 in Destin-Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Additional details and CFP can be found here.

BOARD of DIRECTORS

Lt Gen Chris Miller (USAF, Ret.)

Honorary President

US Air Force Academy

Dr. Richard Schoonhoven

Vice President

US Military Academy

Dr. Yvonne Chiu

Treasurer

US Naval War College

Brig Gen James Cook, PhD (USAF, Ret.)

US Air Force Academy

Dr. George R. Lucas, Jr.

Emeritus Board Member

US Naval Academy

Dr. David Whetham

Euro-ISME Liaison

King's College London

Dr. Shannon Ford

APAC-ISME Liaison

Curtin University

"Ruskin pointed out that we only know what someone really cares about if we know what he or she is prepared to die for, and Flannery O’Connor remarked that ‘the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality…’ If they are right, as I believe they are, an inability to handle the moral problems of war will always be a sign of a general moral incapacity. If men and women in warlike situations, and in the rest of human life as it approaches the condition of war, reveal what they truly are, then only if we think seriously about ourselves in relation to war shall we be able to think realistically about ourselves in other situations too. Conversely, it is only through the study of the moral dimensions of human life that we shall be able to understand war and the military vocation."

Alasdair MacIntyre, "The Wrong Questions to Ask about War"

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