This page contains a selection of research projects from members of the Centre for the Study of Violence. These projects focus explicitly on the problem of violence across the globe.
State of Disappearance
Project Lead: Professor Brad Evans
This is an interdisciplinary project that brings together social sciences, the arts and advocacy groups to look at the multiple ways disappearance occurs.
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Poisons and Pestilence
Project Lead: Dr Brett Edwards
This is a multi-episode podcast exploring the history of chemical weapons and the security implications of biotechnologies.
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Borderlands, Brokers and Peacebuilding in Sri Lanka and Nepal: War to Peace Transitions viewed from the margins
Project Lead: Dr Oliver Walton
This project examines the contested war to peace transitions in Nepal and Sri Lanka with a view to improving statebuilding and peacebuilding interventions in post-war contexts in South Asia and beyond.
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The Spanish Famine: Causes, Development, Consequences, and Memory (1936-1952)
Project Lead: Dr Jorge Marco
This is a a project that addresses the silence that's associated with the Spanish famine during the rile of Franco in Spain.
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Challenging Neglect from a Systemic Perspective: Protecting Refugee Children in Jordan and Gaza, Palestine
Project lead: Professor Jason Hart
This is a two-year project that focusses on the experience of caregivers and children from the Sudanese, Somali, Syrian and Iraqi communities in Jordan and from 1948 Palestine and their descendants in the Gaza Strip.
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Histories of Violence
Project Lead: Professor Brad Evans
This is an online resource centre dedicated to exploring violence in all its forms and featuring many films and resources featuring leading authorities.
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Authoritarian Violence & Cosmopolitan Protection
Project lead: Professor Timo Kivimaki
This is a project exploring the mega-trends of violence by addressing areas such as 1) military means, 2) limited military options, as well as the role played by 3) global institutions.
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Nonviolent Repression and the Escalation of Conflicts over Self-Determination (NRECS)
Project Lead: Dr Micha Germann
This is a project that seeks to improve knowledge about the causes of civil wars by paying increased attention to the process of conflict escalation from nonviolent claims to civil war.
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Disputed Territories and Memory Project
Project Lead: Dr Christina Horvath
This is a project that brings together an international team of researchers from six organisations who are working collaboratively to explore the management of competing memories of disputed territories across borders.
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Gender in Foreign Policymaking: the academic and policy implications of feminist foreign policy
Project lead: Dr Jennifer Thompson
This is a project exploring the meaning and impact of this turn to feminist foreign policymaking (FFP), and the policy lessons that can be learned for the UK context.