Our people

Here is a listing of our people, which you can search by their name or their research interests.

Guy Aitchison

Guy Aitchison

International Relations, Politics and History

The ethics of nonviolent action, political violence, social movements and the nature and definition of structural violence.

Afzal Ashraf

Afzal Ashraf

International Relations, Politics and History

Geopolitics of race and genocide; extremism and violence; religion and conflict; ideology and radicalisation; methodology: listening to extremists; failure in conflict.

Ali Bilgic

Ali Bilgic

International Relations, Politics and History

Critical approaches in security, gender and queer studies, emotions research, psychoanalysis.

Mary Brewer

Mary Brewer

English

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

International Relations, Politics and History

Anarcho-pacifism, applied pacifist analysis, Leo Tolstoy’s political thought

Ksenia Chmutina

Ksenia Chmutina

Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Solidarity in disaster research, vulnerability as resistance, disaster capitalism.

Gunes Dasli

International Relations, Politics and History

Sam Edwards

Sam Edwards

International Relations, Politics and History

George Foden

George Foden

Geography and Environment

Humanitarian intervention, displacement and community cohesion, peacebuilding and atrocity prevention.

Paulina Jara-Osorio

Paulina Jara-Osorio

Criminology, Sociology and Social Policy

Public and social policies, childhood, education, participation, social inequalities, social and school violence, peacebuilding process, international relations.

Lee Jarvis

Lee Jarvis

International Relations, Politics and History

Critical approaches to security, critical perspectives on terrorism, state violence, structural violences, everyday forms of dissent and resistance.

Aya Jazaierly

Aya Jazaierly

Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Intersection of architecture and fear in post conflict zones, tangible and intangible borders.

Yuval Katz

Communication and Media

Media encounters as a pathway to peace and nonviolence, peace journalism, peace and popular culture, digital peace activism, Israel/Palestine.

Caroline Kennedy-Pipe

International Relations, Politics and History

Costs of war, urban warfare, Just War theory, women and war.

Ronan Lee

Ronan Lee

º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ London

Marsha Meskimmon

Marsha Meskimmon

Geography and Environment

Transnational and transcultural feminisms, modern and contemporary art and aesthetics, decolonial and ecological thinking, ‘Southern’ theory, cosmopolitanism and planetarity.

Josh Milburn

Josh Milburn

International Relations, Politics and History

Animal ethics, food ethics, the ethics of war and violence

Tatevik Mnatsakanyan

º¬Ðß²ÝÊÓƵ London

Anti-war protests, peace campaigns, critical approaches to security and peace, the sovereignty-violence nexus, psychoanalytical approaches to (non-)violence, the thought of Mikhail Bakhtin.

Christina Oelgemoller

Christina Oelgemoller

International Relations, Politics and History

Doctrine formation and violence; negotiation of place, space and governance between West Africa and Europe; gender and race in refugee movements and protection.

Dan Parsons

Dan Parsons

Geography and Environment

Alena Pfoser

Alena Pfoser

Communication and Media

Giulia Piccolino

Giulia Piccolino

International Relations, Politics and History

Internal conflicts, peace processes, post-conflict politics, security sector reform, civil-military relations.

Hilary Robinson

Hilary Robinson

International Relations, Politics and History

Jessica Robles

Jessica Robles

Communication and Media

Itoitz Rodrigo-Jusue

Itoitz Rodrigo-Jusue

Communication and Media

Eleanor Strangways

International Relations, Politics and History

Mid-20th century European anarchism, African anti-imperialism, transnational solidarity movements, histories of nonviolence

Martin Thorp

Martin Thorp

International Relations, Politics and History

Peter Yeandle

Peter Yeandle

International Relations, Politics and History

Interwar pacifism; League of Nations’ educational agendas; international cooperation; patriotism in historical context; history of the anti-war movement.