Research themes

• Causes of violent conflict
• Conflict, development and state building
• Cyber security, propaganda and hybrid warfare
• Ethical, philosophical, religious and aesthetic approaches to peace and violence
• Foreign policies, security and conflict
• Gender, race and security/military
• Global responsibility to protect civilians against violence
• Memory and legacy of conflict
• Militarisation
• Modern armed forces
• Organised crime and violence
• Politics of risk
• Politics, regimes and institutions of arms control and disarmament
• State-building and peace-building
• War and technology
• Women and gender in conflict and post-conflict politics

Geographic specialisations

United Kingdom

• Conflicts such as Northern Ireland
• Policies
• Military
• Discourses
• Militarisation

Europe

• Military
• Cyber security
• Responsibility to protect (R2P)

Middle East and North Africa

Syria and Libya

• Conflict
• State-building
• Chemical weapons
• Intervention

Africa

Rwanda, Sudan and Kenya

• State-building
• Peace-building

South and Central Asia

Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka

• Conflict
• Drones
• Limited intervention

Southeast and Northeast Asia

China, Korea, Philippines and Indonesia

• Peace
• Conflict
• Democracy
• Statesmanship
• Ethics

Latin America

• Foreign policy