Milán Mór MARKOVICS

He is a Roman Catholic theologian, canon law jurist interested in research topics related to religious and security issues. Furthermore, he also holds a post-graduate certificate in hospital spiritual therapy. At the moment he is a PhD candidate of the Doctoral School of Military Science at the University of Public Service, also being the pastoral vicar of the Army Chaplain Corps of the Hungarian Ministry of Defence.

In his research projects based on his military service experiences, he tends to highlight upon the role and importance of religions in military conflicts and on their relevance within the various aspects of national security and international relations, too. Moreover, he aims to analyze freedom of religion and the ethical dimensions of war and to reveal the aspects of state church nexus and human rights in particular. He spent one year in Kosovo and another year in Bosnia-Hetzegovina serving in the Hungarian military, where studying the role of religions he visited all the local shrines, holy sites and met and discussed with local church and military leaders and with common believers, as well. He conducted study tours in Vatican City, visiting decasteries of the Holy See, and also in Washington D.C. at the institutes of Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs and at the Archdiocese for the Military Services. He is a member of several academic societies involved in religious and security affairs and military sciences.