Resume

• 2008

  Friedrich Schiller University Jena

  Research Scholar at Ethikzentrum Jena - Ethics Center of Friedrich Schiller University

  Jena

  Germany

  Research

  writing

  teaching and workshops on topics of applied ethics. Projects: Principle of Dignity in German and US Legal Systems; Ethics and Synthetic Biology; Conflict Resolution and Ethics\nProject Coordinator of the DFG Trilateral Project: \"Hearts of Flesh-Not Stone\" - a transdisciplinary research project on reconciliation with partners in Palestine and Israel.

  Research Scholar

  Research Scholar at Ethikzentrum Jena - Ethics Center of Friedrich Schiller University

  Germany

  Research scholar on topics in applied ethics

  and instructor for the university's MA program of Applied Ethics and Conflict Management. Chair of the university's Ethics Commission (Internal Review Board) for academic research.

  Research Scholar and Chair of University Ethics Commission

  Friedrich Schiller University Jena

• 2003

  Loyola University Maryland

  Instructor of Theology

  focus on ethics

  Ignatian spirituality

  history and literature

  Loyola University Maryland

• 2000

  German

  PhD

  Theological Ethics

  Teaching Fellow -Boston College; Fellowships in Hochschule for Philosophie (Munich

  Germany) and Woodstock Theological Center (Georgetown University)

  Boston College

• 1996

  Teaching Fellow

  Boston

  Georgetown

  Munich

  Teaching and research fellowships in various fields of ethics and social philosophy at the following institutions: Boston College

  Harvard University

  Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University

  and the Institute for Social and Development Studies at the Munich School of Philosophy.

  Research and Teaching Fellowships

  Teaching Fellow

  The Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS) was founded in July 2013

  aiming to achieve theoretical understanding of the processes

  measurements and practices relevant to fostering best-possible relationships in contexts affected by violence

  atrocities

  genocides

  wars

  dictatorships

  segregation

  enslavement and other crimes against humanity. Reconciliation Studies is a transdisciplinary and multiscale scientific field that focuses on individual

  group

  inter-group and political dynamics.

  Project Coordinator - Research Scholar

  The Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS)

• 1995

  MDiv

  STL

  Moral Theology

  Teaching Fellow -Dr. Robert Coles

  Harvard College;\nChaplain -Harvard Law School

  Weston Jesuit School of Theology

• 1993

  Le Moyne College

  Instructor in depts of History and Philosophy

  Le Moyne College

• 1991

  MA

  Philosophy

  Political Philosophy

• 1984

  AB

  History

• Political Science

  Foreign Policy

  Business Ethics

  Research

  Literature Reviews

  Scholarly Research

  Ethics

  Qualitative Research

  Political Philosophy

  History

  Higher Education

  Public Speaking

  Bioethics

  Teaching

  Article: Currents in Nineteenth-Century German Law

  and Subsidiarity’s Emergence as a Social Principle

  in the Writings of Wilhelm Ketteler. Martin J O'Malley (2008)

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Article: Currents in Nineteenth-Century German Law

  and Subsidiarity’s Emergence as a Social Principle

  in the Writings of Wilhelm Ketteler. Martin J O'Malley (2008)

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Edited Book: Facetten Der Menschenwürde. Edited by Nikolaus Knoepffler

  Peter Kunzmann

  Martin O'Malley (2011)

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Article: Global Ethics Charter for Business Leaders (in English and Rumanian). Nikolaus Knoepffler

  Martin J O'Malley

  Reyk Albrecht (2011)

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Book: Wilhelm Ketteler and the Birth of Modern Catholic Social Thought: A Catholic Manifesto in Revolutionary 1848. Martin O'Malley (2008)

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Article: Dignity in U.S. Ethics Debate: Needs Würde. Martin O'Malley (2010)

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Article: Würde ist nicht dignitas: Interkulturell vergleichende Betrachtungen zur Semantik und Ideengeschichte des Würdekonzepts. Peter Kunzmann and Martin J O'Malley (2012)

  The article is one of a collection of articles examining new fields of applied ethics for emerging technologies. This contribution points to the dilemmas surrounding ethical approaches for \"green technology\" and synthetic biology

  and suggests using the negotiation model of the \"Mutual Gains Approach\" in a promising new approach for ethics. In: Matthias Maring (ed) Bereichsethiken im interdisziplinären Dialog (German language).

  Article: Grüne Gentechnik und Synthetische Biologie in bio- und Wirtschaftsethischer Perspektive. Nikolaus Knoepffler and Martin J O'Malley (2014)

  Nikolaus Knoepffler and Martin O’Malley address the problem complex of medical ethics in Chapter “An Ordonomic Perspective in Medical Ethics”

  by going through a number of classical approaches to medical ethics — the Hippocratic Oath

  the Christian tradition

  the 4-principles approach

  utilitarian ethics and human rights views. As the authors explain

  all of these and address themselves to individual moral agents and focus on their individual moral choices. This makes them to some extent inadequate as approaches to medical ethics because they rely on moralistic rules and individual blaming. Knoepffler and O’Malley argue that an Order Ethics – ordonomic – perspective on medical ethics is more adequate and illustrate this using a number of practical and highly relevant examples (e.g. the allocation of organs and scarce resources in the healthcare sector). These examples bring out the importance of institutions and incentives scheme in the resolution of these ethical problems. Nevertheless

  Knoepffler and O’Malley believe that an integrated approach between the ordonomic view and conventional individual-focused moral conceptions is viable as an approach to medical ethics.

  Article: \"An Ordonomic Perspective in Medical Ethics.\" Nikolaus Knoepffler and Martin O’Malley (2016)

  This essay broadly outlines the approach developed at the Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (JCRS). Two claims ground the Jena approach: \n1. Reconciliation is found even in conflicts’ deepest expressions and post-conflict situations require significant reconciling attention to actualize social capacities. \n2. Justice is always relevant to reconciliation and suboptimal justice conceptions are often hindrances rather than helpful for post-conflict activities. \nThe first claim is Martin Leiner´s \"Hölderlin Perspective\" - the JCRS keystone for understanding and dealing with conflict. The second claim is developed using classical Aristotelian and contemporary philosophical thought

  with particular attention to the works of Friedrich Schiller – an important historical source of inspiration for scholars in Jena. Justice is best defined as the political decision-maker’s stable disposition to prudent action ordered to the community’s best flourishing. This conception integrates a subsidiarity logic that sees bottom-up or local prioritization as inherent to the justice conception

  and not just practical implications of justice. \nBased upon the above reconciliation and justice conceptions

  the essay draws out three priorities: ethical

  political

  and local. Primarily philosophical insights are utilized to organize

  explain

  and argue for conflict-related studies having a teleological-reconciliation framework

  within which many developing disciplines

  interventions

  and fields of study are organized. Respecting the local priority

  this essay is written from a viewpoint of applied ethics and gives special attention to historical conflicts relevant to the author in the USA and Germany. These contextualized examples demonstrate the relevance of a Jena approach to current conflicts and post-conflict situations.

  Article: Jena Approach: Principles and Priorities for Reconciliation Studies (2017)

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Article: A Performative Definition of Human Dignity. Martin J O'Malley (2011)

  Nikolaus Knoepffler

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Article: After-Birth and Before-Birth Personhood: Why the Baby Should Live. In: JME Special Edition on Infanticide and “After-Birth Abortion” (with N J Knoepffler)

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Article: Human dignity: Regulative principle and absolute value. Nikolaus Knoepffler

  Martin J O'Malley (2011)

  Book: Grüne Gentechnik und Synthetische Biologie - keine Sonderfälle. By Nikolaus Knoepffler

  Sabine Odparlik

  Johannes Achatz and Martin O'Malley (2013)

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Dissertation: Catholic rights discourse in nineteenth-century Germany: Bishop Ketteler protected religious and social freedoms from the equal threats of secularizing liberalism and anti-Catholic absolutism

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Article: Mehr Als Nur Rational: Argumentation Für Genetisches Enhancement in Demokratischen Kontext. Martin J O'Malley (2009)

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Expert Report Article: Current status of ethical discussions surrounding synthetic biology

  chapter 7. Johannes Achatz

  Martin O’Malley

  Peter Kunzmann (2012)

  Value ethics is an applied ethics method that incorporates the structural elements of the Mutual Gains Approach (MGA) for negotiation. The proposal is pragmatic and modest in the sense that it does not require or even primarily seek significant philosophical commitments. It focuses rather on addressing “applied ethics” questions with the goal of achieving the most possible value in concrete situations. This paper reflects upon various philosophical approaches to ethics in the hope of achieving an understanding of the concept “value”

  and also to argue that a pragmatic value-ethics approach has the potential to achieve the most acceptable solutions to tough ethical questions while tolerating a fair degree of philosophical pluralism. It is intended to be potentially compatible with many theoretical ethical schools

  including Kantian approaches

  natural law theories

  utilitarianism

  principle-based ethics and others. The value-ethics approach is presented here as a practical way to respect the context of pluralism that describes much contemporary ethical discourse

  and also to manage the inevitable conflicts that emerge within such pluralistic contexts.

  Article: Value Ethics: A Meta-Ethical Framework for Emerging Sciences in Pluralistic Contexts. Martin J O'Malley (2013)

  See: http://uni-jena.academia.edu/MartinOMalley

  Edited Book: Cancer Research Is a Social Endeavor: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Ethics in Cancer Research. Translated by Martin O'Malley

  Edited by Martin O'Malley and Antje Klemm (2010)

  The Hölderlin perspective is the keystone for the Jena approach to reconciliation developed by Martin Leiner over the past decade together with colleagues and students at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena in Germany. This essay broadly outlines fundamental characteristics of this Jena approach. Leiner´s keystone principle views reconciliation as existing even during conflicts’ most violent expressions. Inspired by Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetry from the early Romantic-era

  the principle also represents the judgment that conflict and post-conflict interventions and research should be guided by an umbrella category of reconciliation. Reconciliation provides the teleologically-ordered framework of principles

  priorities

  disciplines

  and goals

  within which transitional justice

  restorative justice

  and the many other fields of activities and research have important roles. O’Malley’s related principle called the “Schiller correlative” defines the justice concept as the political decision-maker’s stable disposition to prudent action ordered to the community’s best flourishing

  and applied within a framework of subsidiarity. Three priority rules are derived from these two principles for understanding and dealing with conflict

  namely a) the ethical

  b) the political

  and c) the local. \nThough the essay broadly summarizes the transdisciplinary work of many scholars

  it does so from the very specific viewpoint of applied ethics and utilizes primarily philosophical frameworks to organize and explain essential elements of a reconciliation approach. Respecting the local priority

  this essay gives special attention to historical conflicts relevant to the author in the USA and Germany. These contextualized examples demonstrate the relevance of a Jena approach to dealing with current and post-conflict situations.

  Article: Jena Approach: Principles and Priorities for Reconciliation Studies (2017)

  Article: Encountering the Suffering of the Other. Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi

  Martin O'Malley (2015)

  An account of the groundbreaking scholarly work on reconciliation that brought a group of Palestinian students to Auschwitz. This trip was one element of a larger transdisciplinary trilateral project of German

  Palestinian and Israeli scholars sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG): \"Hearts of Flesh - Not Stone. Does Encountering the Suffering of the Other (ESO) Influence Reconciliation in the Middle of Conflict?\"

  Article: Encountering the Suffering of the Other. Mohammed S. Dajani Daoudi

  Martin O'Malley (2015)

  Martin

  O'Malley