This page contains a selection of recently published books from members of the Centre for the Study of Violence. They focus explicitly on the problem of violence.

Executive Committee

Brad Evans (Director)

• Conversations on Violence: An Anthology, Evans, B. & Parr, A., 21 Mar 2021, Pluto Press
• Ecce Humanitas: Beholding the Pain of Humanity, Evans, B., 1 Jul 2021, Columbia University Press
• Atrocity Exhibition: Life in the age of total violence, Evans, B., 2 Mar 2019, The Los Angeles Review of Books
• Violence: Humans in Dark Times, Evans, B. & Lennard, N., 2018, San Francisco, U. S. A.: City Lights Publishers
• Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of the Spectacle, Evans, B. & Giroux, H. A., 15 Jun 2015, City Lights Publishers

Paul Higate (Associate Director)

• Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday, Higate, P. & Utas, M., 15 Jun 2017, Zed Books.

Andrea Purdekova

• Making Ubumwe: Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project, Purdekova, A., 31 Oct 2015, Berghahn Books.

Jason Hart

• Years of Conflict: Adolescence, Political Violence and Displacement, Hart, J. (ed.), 2008, Berghahn Books.

Timo Kivimaki

• The Fragility-Grievances-Conflict Triangle in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Kivimäki, T. (ed.) & Jawad, R. (ed.), 24 Mar 2022, Basel: MDPI.
• Protecting the Global Civilian from Violence: UN discourses and practices in fragile states, Kivimäki, T., 11 May 2021, Routledge.
• Failure to protect. The Path to and Consequences of Humanitarian Interventionism, Kivimaki, T., 4 Mar 2019, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
• The Long Peace of East Asia, Kivimaki, T., 15 May 2014, Routledge
• [Can Peace Research Make Peace? Lessons in Academic Diplomacy]9https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/can-peace-research-make-peace-lessons-in-academic-diplomacy), Kivimäki, T., 10 Oct 2012, Routledge.

Felia Allum

• Graphic Narratives of Organised Crime, Gender and Power in Europe: Discarded Footnotes, Allum, F. & Mitchell, A., 25 Apr 2022, 1st ed. Routledge. 174 p. (Routledge Studies in Gender, Sexuality, and Comics)
• Italian Mafias Today: Territory, Business and Politics, Allum, F., Clough Marinaro, I. (ed.) & Sciarrone, R. (ed.), 4 Sep 2019, Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
• The Handbook of Organised Crime and Politics, Allum, F. (ed.) & Gilmour, S. (ed.), 2019, 1 ed. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• The Invisible Camorra: Neapolitan Crime Families across Europe, Allum, F., 8 Nov 2016, Ithaca, U. S. A.: Cornell University Press
• Defining and Defying Organised Crime: Discourse, Perceptions and Reality Allum, F. (ed.), Longo, F., Irrera, D. & Kostakos, P., 16 Feb 2010, Abingdon, U. K.: Routledge

Affiliated members

Andre Barrinha

• International Relations Then and Now: Origins and Trends in Interpretation (2nd ed.) Groom, A. J. R., Barrinha, A. & Olson, W. C., 23 Apr 2019, Abingdon, U. K.: Routledge.
• A Global Dimension: EU's Conflict Management in the Neighborhood and Beyond Barrinha, A. (ed.), 2008, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Brett Edwards
• Insecurity and Emerging Biotechnology: Governing Misuse Potential, Edwards, B., 10 Feb 2019, Palgrave Pivot, Cham

David Galbreath

• Cooperation and Conflict? Problematizing Organizational Overlap in Europe, Galbreath, D. J. (ed.) & Gebhard, C. (ed.), 2010, London: Ashgate.
• Routledge Handbook of Defence Studies, Galbreath, D. (ed.) & Deni, J. (ed.), 22 Feb 2018, London, U. K.: Routledge
• Contemporary European Security, Galbreath, D. (ed.), Chappell, L. (ed.) & Mawdsley, J. (ed.), 2019, (Acceptance date) Abingdon: Routledge
• Defence Studies, Galbreath, D. (ed.) & Neads, A. (ed.), 20 Mar 2020, Routledge.

Doreen Pastor

• Tourism and Memory: Visitor Experiences of the Nazi and GDR Past, Pastor, D., 24 Nov 2021, 1st ed. London: Routledge.

Jorge Marco

• The Fabric of Fear: Building Franco’s New Society in Spain, 1936-1950, Marco, J. & Gómez Bravo, G., 4 Jan 2023, Liverpool University Press.
• La guerra de España en nuestras raíces. Ancestros, subjetividad y el oficio del historiador, Marco, J., 25 Mar 2022, Postmetrópolis.
• Hijos de una guerra. Los hermanos Quero y la resistencia antifranquista (Translated title of the contribution: Children of a War: The Quero brothers and the antifascist resistance), Marco, J., May 2019, Comares. Salida de las tinieblas. Memorias de un toxicómano en la República, la guerra y el franquismo (Translated title of the contribution: Out of Darkness: Memoirs of a Drug Addict during the Second Republic, the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship), Alonso Pérez, J. & Marco, J. (ed.), 11 Nov 2019, Granada: Comares
• Guerrilleros and Neighbours in Arms: Identities and Cultures of Anti-fascist Resistance in Spain, Marco, J., 31 Jan 2016, Brighton, U. K.: Sussex Academic Press.

Naomi Pendle

• Spiritual Contestations, Violence and Peace in South Sudan, Pendle, N., 22 Feb 2022, (Acceptance date) James Currey.

Patrick Bury

• Mission Improbable: The Transformation of the Army Reserve, Bury, P., 31 Jan 2019, Hampshire: Howgate.
• Callsign Hades, Bury, P., 10 Sep 2010, Simon & Schuster.

Sophie Whiting

• Spoiling the peace? The threat of dissident republicans to peace in Northern Ireland, Whiting, S., 30 Jun 2015, Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Wali Aslam

• Precision Strike Warfare and International Intervention: Strategic, Ethico-Legal and Decisional Implications, Aaronson, M., Aslam, W., Dyson, T. & Rauxloh, R., 15 Sep 2014, London, U. K.: Routledge.
• The United States and Great Power Responsibility in International Society: Drones, Rendition and Invasion, Aslam, W., 25 Jun 2013, Abingdon, U. K.: Routledge.

Peter Lambert

• Latin American Foreign Policies: Between Ideology and Pragmatism, Gardini, G. L. (ed.) & Lambert, P. (ed.), 2011, New York, U. S. A.: Palgrave Macmillan
• Political Violence and the Construction of National Identity in Latin America, Lambert, P., 2006, New York: Palgrave Macmillan.