Stathis N. Kalyvas is Gladstone Professor of Government and fellow of All Souls College at Oxford. He was, until 2018, the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science at Yale University, where he founded and directed the Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence and co-directed the Hellenic Studies Program. In 2019 he founded the T. E. Lawrence Program on Conflict and Violence at All Souls College. He is the author, among others, of The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1996) and The Logic of Violence in Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2006). His work has received multiple awards and he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008 and the British Academy in 2020. Since December 2023 he also serves as Chairman of the Board of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center.