Team
The Centre’s research team are listed below.
Using a range of interdisciplinary approaches our team study all aspects of conflict and security. If you are interested in studying with us or collaborating on a research project please do get in touch with us. Any media enquiries please use the contact details.
Leadership team
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Research interests:
- Dynamics of intra-state conflicts
- Peace processes and peace settlements
- Statehood
- Sovereignty
Research interests:
- The relationship between domestic politics and state behaviour in the international system
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Research interests:
- Political transitions
- Post-conflict development
- Politics of armed liberation movements and political parties
- Legacies and politics of mass atrocities
Centre members
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Research interests:
- International relations
- Foreign Policy
- Area studies
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Research interests:
- Protection and rights by Afghan and Iraqi military interpreters and other Locally Employed Civilians
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Research interests:
- Dynamics of intra-state conflict
- Political methodology
Research interests:
- Middle Eastern politics
- Conflict and conflict resolution (particularly in the context of post-war recovery and peace building)
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Research interests:
- Spatial agency, and spaces of peace and conflict in Cape Town, South Africa
- Post-conflict studies and divided cities
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Research interests:
- Sexual and gender-based violence in military and conflict spaces
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Research interests:
- The changing role of discretion within algorithmic-led decision-making in security contexts
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Research interests:
- International Relations
- Political Sociology
- Latin American Politics
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Research interests:
- Global politics of nuclear weapons
- Nuclear disarmament
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Research interests:
- Contentious politics and social movements
- Civil war
- Computational social sciences
- Ethnography
- Middle East
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Research interests:
- Decentralisation
- Parties and electoral politics
- Gender and politics
- Gender and conflict
- Southeast Asia
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Research interests:
- Civil war
- Social mobilisation
- Ex-combatant Reintegration
- Civilian Protection Norms and Practices
- Fieldwork Methods and Ethics
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Research interests:
- Minority resistance and responses to mass atrocities
- Trajectories of illiberal peace: continuity, change, collapse
- Illiberal peacebuilding in Indonesia
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Research interests:
- Authoritarianism and illiberalism
- Policing and security
- Political violence; state and non-state violent actors
- Gender and politics
- Research ethics and their regulation
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Research interests:
- Family, Intimacy and Borders
- Migration Studies and Colonialism
- Borders and the Afterlife of Colonial Control
- Eco-Bordering
Research interests:
- Civil war
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Transitional justice
- Decoloniality
- Transitional justice
- Arts-based research methods
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Research interests:
- Contemporary just war theory
- Global ethics (particularly in relation to environmental issues and migration)
- Contemporary political theory (such as the literatures on political obligation)
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Research interests:
- Moderation and radicalisation of non-state armed groups (including how states respond to threats)
Associate members
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Research interests:
- Contemporary South Asian literature written in English
- Literary representations of British Muslims
Research interests:
- Resilient Food systems
- Reimagining Approaches to Water and Waste
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Research interests:
- Intergroup relations, prejudice and discrimination
- Impression formation, social categorization, and stereotyping
- Social identity complexity and identity integration
- Values and morality
- Cross-cultural research and open science collaborations
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Research interests:
- Disaster and conflict affected communities
- Ethics
Postgraduate researchers
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Research interests:
- Exploring trajectories of groups' mobilisation and behaviour among Islamist radical movements in Malaysia
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Research interests:
- Effectiveness of the Economic Sanctions in Nuclear Non-proliferation
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Research interests:
- Current and new models of public diplomacy
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Research interests:
- Internal dynamics of non-state armed organizations, rebel fragmentation and cohesion, and peace processes
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Research interests:
- Why Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have not been able to resolve existing problems with each other so far
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Research interests:
- Why violence prevails: Understanding jihadism in Kashmir
Research interests:
- Exploring perplexities of Capacity Development Initiatives in Post-Conflict Countries: Examining Afghanistan’s civil aviation sector.
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Research interests:
- China and ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative: A Post-Structuralist Reading
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Mr Mamoon Khawar
Research interests:
- Understanding the Role of Warlords in Post-War State-Building: The Role of Warlords in Afghanistan's Post-2001 State-Building Process.