Michael Andregg, Ph.D.,  geneticist and peace researcher, founder of Ground Zero Minnesota, producer of 56 educational videos and organizer of over 5,000 high school, church and university-level eductional programs on issues of peace and justice. 

Currently Michael is launching a Center for the Study of Intelligence and Wisdom hoping to convince military leaders and intelligence services that open sources and public information are more effective and “wise” in the long run than secret intelligence institutions and clandestine operations.  The Center published a collection of essays on “Intelligence Ethics” in August, 2007, for example, that has already been used by the CIA and the National Defense Intelligence College. 

Michael also urges justice and peace students to maintain cooperative and respectful relations with military and intelligence personnel whenever possible, especially ROTC programs.  He also sponsors constructive liaisons with local police in the spirit of “Community Policing,” but not in the spirit of “snitching.” 

Author of a national award-winning book On the Causes of War (also available free on the web at www.gzmn.org ) Michael teaches courses on the causes of war, global problems related to war, sustainable development and similar themes in the graduate school at the University of Minnesota.  At St. Thomas he has taught JPST 250 and 470 (conflict resolution) and 9 different seminars in the Aquinas Scholars program with titles like:  Ethical Dilemmas in War and Peace; Genetics and Human Society; Intelligence and Public Policy; Secret Power Systems; Civilizations, Empires and Wars; Science Fiction, Religion and War; Weapons of Mass Destruction; Ways to Wisdom and most recently Rethinking Incarceration and Criminal Justice.