Team

Research interests:

• Middle Eastern politics
• Conflict and conflict resolution (particularly in the context of post-war recovery and peace building)

Research interests:

• International relations
• Foreign Policy
• Area studies

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

Research interests:

• Protection and rights by Afghan and Iraqi military interpreters and other Locally Employed Civilians

Research interests:

• Ontological security
• Critical security studies
• Emotion research in Politics and International Relations
• International Relations Theory
• International Political Psychology

Research interests:

• Sexual and gender-based violence in military and conflict spaces

Research interests:

• Statebuilding
• Criminality
• Political contention and armed conflict
• The intersections between sectarianism and racism in Northern Ireland

Research interests:

• The changing role of discretion within algorithmic-led decision-making in security contexts

Research interests:

• Leadership
• Development and environment
• Social movements and activism
• Transitional justice
• Human rights practice

Research interests:

• Global politics of nuclear weapons
• Nuclear disarmament

Research interests:

• Decentralisation
• Parties and electoral politics
• Gender and politics
• Gender and conflict
• Southeast Asia

Research interests:

• Civil war
• Social mobilisation
• Ex-combatant Reintegration
• Civilian Protection Norms and Practices
• Fieldwork Methods and Ethics

Research interests:

• Political transitions
• Post-conflict development
• Politics of armed liberation movements and political parties 
• Legacies and politics of mass atrocities

Research interests:

• Minority resistance and responses to mass atrocities
• Trajectories of illiberal peace: continuity, change, collapse
• Illiberal peacebuilding in Indonesia

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

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)

Research interests:

• Moderation and radicalisation of non-state armed groups (including how states respond to threats)

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

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

Research interests:

• Indigenous peoples’ rights
• Human rights practice
• International human rights law
• International humanitarian law
• International criminal law
• Public international law
•  Transitional and transformative justice

Research interests:

• Disaster and conflict affected communities 
• Ethics

Research interests:

• Responsible and relational capabilities for resilient ecosystems
• Social–ecological capabilities for regenerative sustainability transitions
• Responsible entrepreneurship, social innovation and regional resilience

Research interests:

• Why Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have not been able to resolve existing problems with each other so far

Research interests:

• Exploring perplexities of Capacity Development Initiatives in Post-Conflict Countries: Examining Afghanistan’s civil aviation sector.