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Critical Military Studies
By Owen David Thomas Catriona Pennell Margot Tudor a Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Exeter, Exeter, UKb Department of Humanities and Social Science Cornwall, University of Exeter, Penryn, UKc Department of International Politics, University of London, London, UK
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Critical Military Studies
By Raquel da Silva Priya Dixit a Centre for International Studies, Iscte-IUL, Lisboa, Portugalb Department of Political Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA
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Critical Military Studies
By Kingsley Baird Discipline of Fine Arts, College of Creative Arts, Massey University Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Wellington, New Zealand
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Critical Military Studies
By Petter Narby Department of Systems Science for Defence and Security, Swedish Defence University, Stockholm, Sweden
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Critical Military Studies
By Justinas Lingevicius Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Defence Studies
By Gustavo F. DAll’agnol Eugenio Pacelli Lazzarotti Diniz a International Relations, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazilb International Relations, Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gerais - Campus Praca da Liberdade, Belo Horizont, BrazilGustavo F. DAll’agnol holds a post-doctoral grant by CAPES / INCT at the Project: “INCT: Observatório de Capacidades Militares e Políticas de Defesa. He holds a master’s degree in international political economy and a PhD in International Relations from PUC-MG were he also worked as a post-doctoral researcher. He worked as an Assistant Professor at UFSC and PUC-MG. He is a senior fellow at the South American Institute for Strategy and Development (ISAPE).Eugenio Pacelli Lazzarotti Diniz is a Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais – PUC Minas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; CNPq Researcher; CEO at Synopsis Intelligence Strategy Diplomacy; member, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS, London); former chair of the Brazilian International Relations Association (ABRI). Prof. Eugenio Diniz is grateful to CNPq for its support.
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Defence Studies
By Harun Aras Kahraman Süvari Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Political Science and International Relations, Manisa Celal Bayar University, Manisa, TürkiyeHarun Aras is currently working Department of Political Science and International Relations at Manisa Celal Bayar University, Türkiye. His work focuses on the hybrid war strategies, Russian foreign policy and Turkish foreign policy. His latest book, Rusya’nın Hibrit Savaşı ve Suriye Müdahalesi (Russia’s Hybrid War and Syria Intervention), was published in 2023 by Nobel Publishing Group.Kahraman Süvari is currently working as assistant-professor of Department of Political Science and International Relations at Manisa Celal Bayar University, Türkiye. He currently teaches Conflict Resolution and Negotiation and Diplomatic History in the department. His latest book, 21. Yüzyılın Başında Riskler ve Zorluklar: Uluslararası Nükleer Silahların Yayılmasını Önleme Rejimi (Risks and Challenges at the Beginning of the 21st Century: International Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime), was published in 2022 by Nobel Publishing Group.
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Defence Studies
By Yoram Fried Independent scholarDr. Yoram Fried is an independent historian. He gained his PhD from the School of History and the Department of Geography and the Human Environment, Tel Aviv University. His research focuses predominantly on the civil-military relations in Israel in the 1950s.
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Defence Studies
By João Reis a Department of Military Sciences, Portuguese Military Academy, Amadora, Portugalb Military Academy Research Center (CINAMIL), Portuguese Military Academy, Amadora, Portugal
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Defence Studies
By Javad Bakhshi Mahmoud Efatmaneshnik STEM, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, AustraliaJavad Bakhshi is a lecturer at UniSA STEM. He holds a PhD in Project Management from the University of Sydney and a Master of Philosophy in Complex Project Management from the University of Adelaide. He also holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Industrial Management from Iran. His research interests encompass a wide range of interdisciplinary topics, including complexity, governance, digitalisation, and project architecture. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Responsible Production and Consumption.Mahmoud Efatmaneshnik is a senior lecturer and director of the Master of Systems Engineering program at the University of South Australia. He is also the CEO of MBSE TECH an MBSE consultancy company. He has a PhD in Complexity Management of Design Process (2009), and a ME in manufacturing engineering (2005) both from UNSW. He has a BE in aerospace (1999) from Tehran Polytechnic University. He is a member of INCOSE and IEEE. His research interests are: Systems Engineering, Model-based Systems Engineering, Systems Modeling and Analysis, Test and Evaluation, Complexity Modeling and Complexity Measure, Decision Analysis and Support, and Capability Modelling and Acquisition Support. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal and conference articles. He is an INCOSE member and the editor-in-chief of the Australian Journal of Multidisciplinary Engineering, and an associate editor of Engineering Management Journal.
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Defence Studies
By Peter Spayne Laura Lacey Marie Cahillane Alistair Saddington a Centre for Defence Engineering, Cranfield University, Shrivenham, UKb Centre for Electronic Warfare, Information and Cyber, Cranfield Defence and Security, Cranfield University, Shrivenham, UKPeter Spayne is a Weapon Engineer in the RN, majoring on mine disposal systems. He studied Autonomous systems at BEng and explored weaponising high powered ultrasound to agitate submerged explosives at MSc with Staffs Uni. He is a PhD student researching the assurance of lethal autonomous weapon systems at Cranfield University.Dr Laura Lacey is a Senior Lecturer in Military Aviation Safety and Airworthiness at Cranfield University.Dr Marie Cahillane is Head of the Applied Psychology Group and a Senior Lecturer in Applied Cognitive Psychology within the Centre for Electronic Warfare, Information and Cyber at Cranfield University. She has over 15 years’ experience in leading and collaborating on defence and Security research.Prof Alistair Saddington is Professor of Defence Aeronautics. He has over 25 years of experience in aerospace engineering across both industry and academia including research leadership, management, and postgraduate teaching and supervision.
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Defence Studies
By Thomas Crosbie Anders Klitmøller a Institute for Military Operations, Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, Denmarkb Institute for Leadership and Organisation, Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, DenmarkThomas Crosbie is an associate professor at the Institute for Military Operations at the Royal Danish Defence College. He is the editor of the book series Military Politics (Berghahn Books) and has published widely on topics including military politics, the military profession, and competency development.Anders Klitmøller is an associate professor at the Institute for Leadership and Organization, Royal Danish Defence College. Anders Klitmøller’s current research draws on both leadership studies, sociology and philosophy. Current research interest includes command, complexity thinking, and different aspects of leadership.
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Global Change, Peace & Security
By Tatyana S. Denisova Sergey V. Kostelyanets Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
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Global Change, Peace & Security
By Amir Khorram-Manesh Frederick M. Burkle a Department of Surgery, Institute for Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Swedenb Disaster Medicine Centre, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Swedenc Gothenburg Emergency Medicine Research Group (GEMREG), Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Swedend Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, USA
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Global Change, Peace & Security
By Dee Khosa Kabir Abdulkareem Department of Law, Safety and Security Management, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
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Global Change, Peace & Security
By Fred H. Lawson Matteo Legrenzi a Department of Government, Northeastern University, Oakland, CA, USAb Department of International Relations, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesiac Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venezia, Italia
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Global Change, Peace & Security
By Teboho Josiah Lebakeng Thabo Mbeki African School of Public and International Affairs, UNISA, Pretoria, South Africa
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Global Change, Peace & Security
By Martin Weber Political Science and International Studies, GPN 39A, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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Journal of War & Culture Studies
By Anna Branach-Kallas Centre of Excellence IMSErt, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Toruń, PolandAnna Branach-Kallas is a professor at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. Her research interests include the representation of trauma and war, postcolonialism, corporeality, health humanities, and memory studies. She is the author of over 90 articles and book chapters. She has published five books, including, most recently, Decolonizing the Memory of the First World War: The Poetics and Politics of Centenary Interventions (Routledge, 2024).
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Journal of War & Culture Studies
By Sridipa Dandapat Priyanka Tripathi Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, Patna, IndiaSridipa Dandapat is a doctoral candidate (UGC-SRF) in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Patna and the newly appointed executive editor of International Research in Children's Literature (Edinburgh University Press). She has been awarded the International Youth Library Fellowship (2023-24) for her research on Indian immigrant girlhood. She has also received the ChLA Graduate Student Honorary Essay Award, IRSCL Travel Grant, and June Cummins Travel Grant. Sridipa has published in New Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship, Boyhood Studies, Contemporary Voice of Dalit, and Children's Literature in Education, with an upcoming article in Children's Literature Association Quarterly. Her research focuses on Gender Studies, Social Justice Discourse, Children's Literature, and South Asian Fiction. She can be reached at shreedipaa@gmail.com.Priyanka Tripathi is an Associate Professor of English and former Head of the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at IIT Patna. She serves as Co-Executive Editor of the Journal of International Women's Studies. Priyanka has been awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust Visiting Fellowship (2024-25) at the University of Leeds and the IPD Visiting Research Fellowship (2022-23) at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely in journals such as the Journal of Gender Studies, Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, GeoHumanities, and Economic and Political Weekly among others. For more details, visit https://www.iitp.ac.in/∼priyankatripathi/.
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Journal of War & Culture Studies
By Rowan Thompson Linsey Robb Humanities, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UKRowan Thompson is a historian of modern Britain, with research interests in militarism, military culture, and associationalism. He was recently a Research Fellow at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne. From 2020–21, he held the Alan Pearsall Fellowship for Naval and Maritime History at the Institute of Historical Research. In 2022, he was awarded the Sir Julian Corbett Prize for Research in Modern Naval History.Linsey Robb is Associate Professor in Modern British History at Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Her work focuses on cultural, social and gendered histories of the Second World War. Key publications include Men At Work (2015), Men in Reserve (2017), Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War (2018), Women and War: British Women and War, 1850–1950 (2020) and British Humour and the Second World War: Keep Smiling Through (2023). She is currently writing a cultural and social history of conscientious objection in Britain during the Second World War. This work was funded by an AHRC Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship.
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Peace Review
By Taylor Krauss Taylor Krauss is a filmmaker and oral historian who founded the Voices of Rwanda testimony project in 2004 to film the rescapés of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi, and to preserve those testimonies for use in education, memorialization, and research. In 2015, Krauss initiated Voices of Yezidi to create video documentation in the wake of the genocide by ISIS in 2014. In 2018, Rosette Royale and Krauss began filming oral histories of those living with HIV/AIDS in the Puget Sound Area in partnership with The Seattle Parks Foundation’s The AIDS Memorial Pathway project. Krauss’ documentary film work includes Netflix’ “City of Joy” about the Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege (Nobel laureate) and playwright Eve Ensler; Sundance Festival winner “Watchers of the Sky” about Raphael Lemkin’s life and work; “BronX BandA: Arturo O’Farrill & The Bronx,” rooted in oral histories of Bronx musical luminaries; and “Nuclear Fallout” about the veterans who were sent on a secret mission to clean up the Marshall Island atomic test blasts. Krauss also directed photography for four seasons of the HBO series “Axios on HBO.” Krauss received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, the Susan J. Herman Award for Leadership in Holocaust and Genocide Awareness, graduated from Yale University, and is a member of The Yale Genocide Studies Program Advisory Board.
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Peace Review
By Chikodiri Nwangwu Dr Chikodiri Nwangwu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Africa-China Studies, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa. His research interests straddle political economy, international politics, peace & conflict, elections, and social movements. He has published well-researched articles in several reputable journals, including the African Affairs, Society, Review of African Political Economy, and the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Dr Nwangwu is a recipient of the University of Nigeria Vice-Chancellor’s Financial Award of Academic Excellence for his publications in Thomson Reuters-indexed journals. In 2023, he was awarded the InteRussia Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme at MGIMO University, Moscow. Along with two other colleagues, Dr Nwangwu served as a guest editor for a special issue of Ikenga: International Journal of the Institute of African Studies. He is also the coeditor of the CORN West Africa book project on Social protection in fragile and conflict-affected societies. He belongs to several research networks, including the CORN West Africa. E-mail: cnwangwu@uj.ac.za
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Peace Review
By Guy B. Roberts Secretary Guy B. Roberts is a distinguished American official, lawyer, and retired Marine Corps colonel. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs (ASD(NCB)). Appointed on November 30, 2017, Mr. Roberts was the principal advisor on nuclear, chemical, and biological defense matters, reporting to the Secretary of Defense and other top officials. He previously held roles as NATO’s Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Weapons of Mass Destruction Policy and Director for Nuclear Deterrence Policy.In his role as ASD(NCB), Mr. Roberts was tasked with overseeing the safety, security, and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. He led efforts to address threats from improvised and weapons of mass destruction, ensuring compliance with defense policies. His work was crucial in enhancing national defense and managing nuclear, chemical, and biological threats.Mr. Roberts holds degrees in Political Science (Arizona State University), law (University of Denver), international and comparative law (Georgetown University), international relations (University of Southern California), and strategic studies (Naval War College), where he graduated with highest distinction. He has been admitted to practice in multiple states and before various courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the International Law of War Society. E-mail: guyroberts66@gmail.com
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Peace Review
By Erika Simpson Associate Professor of International Relations and President of the Canadian Peace Research Association, Department of Political Science, Room 7233, Social Science Centre, Western University, London, Canada. E-mail: simpson@uwo.caErika Simpson, an established figure in the field of international relations and peace research, is an Associate Professor at Western University and the President of the Canadian Peace Research Association (CPRA). She is the author of "NATO and the Bomb" and has contributed to respected publications such as the Brown Journal of World Affairs, International Journal, In Victus Pax, Peace Magazine, Peace Research, Peace Review, and Policy Options. Additionally, Erika is a frequent contributor to Canada’s Hill Times and shares her expert opinions through Postmedia Network, CTV Television, and CBC Radio. She has held significant roles in the Canadian Pugwash Group and reviewed for the CIMVH and SSHRC. Erika’s work has been recognized with fellowships, including the Alton Jones Fellowship, Barton Fellowship, Liu Institute Fellowship, and NATO Fellowship. In 2015, the Voice of Women in Canada honored her with a lifetime achievement award for her contributions to peace writing.
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Peace Review
By Zoe I. Levornik Zoë I. Levornik, has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Haifa. She was a Postdoctoral fellow for the Stanton Nuclear Security Program at MIT’s Security Studies Program (SSP), and a Research fellow at the National Security Study Center (NSSC) at the University of Haifa. Currently she is working as an analyst and political consultant. E-maol: zoelevornik@gmail.com
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Peace Review
By Dale T. Snauwaert Dale T. Snauwaert is Professor of Philosophy of Education and Peace Studies, Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in the Foundations of Peace Education and the Undergraduate Minor in Peace Studies in the Department of Educational Studies, The University of Toledo, USA. He is the Founding Editor of In Factis Pax: Online Journal of Peace Education and Social Justice. He is widely published in such academic journals as the Journal of Peace Education, Educational Theory, Educational Studies, Peace Studies Journal, and Philosophical Studies in Education as well as academic book publishers on such topics as democratic theory, theories of social justice, the ethics of war and peace, and the philosophy of peace education. He is the author of the recent book Teaching Peace as a Matter of Justice: Toward a Pedagogy of Moral Reasoning. His core interests and expertise lie within the following topics: peace education, democratic education, human rights education, democratic theory, theories of justice, human rights theory, the philosophy of nonviolence, and teaching through reflective inquiry. E-mail: Dale.snauwaert@utoledo.edu
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Peace Review
By Yongha Hwang Juneseo Hwang Yongha Hwang is a researcher at Peace Network which is a South Korean NGO focusing on disarmament and nonproliferation affairs in the Northeast Asia. His research interest lies in arms control and confidence-building. E-mail: yooonaul24@gmail.com. Twitter handle: @YonghaHGDr. Juneseo Hwang is a research associate at the DFG Humanities Center for Advanced Studies ‘Futures of Sustainability‘ established within Universität Hamburg. He has authored numerous research papers in the fields of peacebuilding, environmental justice, human rights, green criminology, and disarmament. Dr. Hwang is a dedicated policy consultant specializing in matters of peace and security in East Asia. E-mail: juneseo.hwang@uni-hamburg.de. Twitter handle: @JuneseoH
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Peace Review
By Robin Collins Robin Collins is Secretary of the Canadian Pugwash Group and a board member of the Rideau Institute which is based in Ottawa, Canada. He is a past Co-chair of the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and he writes occasional columns for Peace Magazine. E-mail: robincol@gmail.com
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By David Phillips Independent researcher, London, UKDavid Phillips, Independent researcher and former Nuffield Fellow with a series of published articles on the Borneo states.
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Julian Droogan Khuram Iqbal Syed Adnan Bukhari a Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australiab Department of International Relations, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistanc Homeland Security Program, Rabdan Academy, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesJulian Droogan is an Associate Professor of Security Studies in the Department of Security Studies and Criminology, Macquarie University, where he serves as Head of Department. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism (Routledge) and co-convenor of the AVERT countering violent extremism research network. Julian’s academic research focusses on online extremism and disinformation, South Asian violent extremism, and terrorist cultures. Through his career, Julian has worked with a range of stakeholders from government, the private sector, and community groups to apply university-based research to devising solutions to contemporary security challenges. He has led research projects for the Australian and US Departments of Defence, for the NSW Government and for the United States Institute for Peace, among others. These encompass topics such as mapping jihadist propaganda, young Australians’ engagement with online violent extremist content, the rise of far-right and conspiratorial narratives through social media, and the spread of online disinformation in Australia’s region. Julian was instrumental in designing the COMPACT countering violent extremism program, operated by Multicultural NSW and aimed at fostering broad societal resilience to violent extremism.Khuram Iqbal is an Associate Professor at the National Defence University, Islamabad. Khuram is a distinguished authority on terrorism in Pakistan having authored “The Making of Pakistani Human Bombs” (Lexington-US) and co-authored “Pakistan Terrorism Ground Zero” (Reaktion-London) and “Negotiating the Siege of Red Mosque” (Oxford-Karachi). After receiving a doctorate degree in Policing, Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism from Macquarie University (Australia) he joined National Defence University of Pakistan as an Assistant Professor of Counter-Terrorism and created Pakistan’s first university-based centre of excellence on counter-extremism. Previously, he served as Research Coordinator at Pak Institute for Peace Studies (Islamabad), where he planned and executed a number of research projects on radicalization and terrorism in Pakistan. A graduate in Strategic Studies from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Singapore, Khuram Iqbal has also worked as senior Analyst at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research (ICPVTR), Singapore.Syed Adnan Bukhari is an Assistant Professor at the Homeland Security program of Rabdan Academy, UAE. He carries more than 20 years of experience in the fields of academy, policy institutes, development agencies and media. Before joining the Rabdan Academy, Dr Bukhari was a faculty member at the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science & Technology (SZABIST). From 2006 to 2014, he worked as an Associate Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) at the NTU. From 2015 to 2018, he worked as the Director of the FATA Program at the FATA Research Centre in Islamabad, where he undertook research projects on post-conflict reconstruction of the FATA tribal region. He also worked as a Consultant with the UNDP, DFID, GIZ, and Coffey International on post-conflict reconstruction of Pakistan’s tribal areas abutting the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. He has been an instructor in various training courses for security and LEAs on terrorism and insurgency in Singapore, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. He has conducted field research in conflict zones in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. Dr Bukhari has earned his PhD from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He was also a visiting scholar at Fudan University, China, and Geneva Centre for Training & Analysis of Terrorism (GCTAT).
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Jorge Mantilla Andreas E. Feldmann a Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USAb Department of Political Science, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USAJorge Mantilla is a political scientist who holds a Ph.D. in Criminology, Law, and Justice from UIC Chicago. He is a Lecturer at the National University of Colombia and he has work as a practitioner and has worked with public agencies and international organizations in topics related to armed conflict, organized crime, and illicit economies. His current interests are criminal governance, border studies, and criminal-state cooperation.Andreas E. Feldmann is an associate professor in the Departments of Political Science and Latin American and Latino Studies and Principal Investigator of the Global Immigration Cluster Initiative at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). He is the author of Repertoires of Terrorism: Organizational Identity and Violence in Colombia’s Civil War (Columbia University Press, 2024) and co-author of Criminal Politics and Botched Development in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Ananda Kumar Biswas a Child Protection, Humanitarian Crisis Management Programme, BRACb Khulna UniversityAnanda Kumar Biswas works as a Humanitarian Professional (Child Protection and ECD Expert) in the Rohingya Refugee Response in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. For the last 8 years, Mr Biswas has actively and dedicatedly worked with Under-resourced peoples’s rights and development. His educational Qualifications: Bachelor’s and Master’s in Development Studies from Khulna University, Bangladesh. Second Master’s in Educational Leadership and School Improvement. He has published two International Journal Articles, five book chapters, two conference proceedings and one book review.
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Promise Frank Ejiofor Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UKPromise Frank Ejiofor is a doctoral candidate in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge, a member of Queens’ College, Cambridge, and a Gates Cambridge Scholar. He holds an MPhil in Social Anthropology from Trinity College, Cambridge, and an MPhil and MA in Political Science with distinctions from Central European University (CEU), Austria. His research interests lie at the intersection of nationalism, citizenship, ethnic politics, and security studies with a regional focus on Africa. His articles have been published in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Ethnicities, Patterns of Prejudice, Review of African Political Economy, Ethnopolitics, Critical Studies on Terrorism, African Security, Conflict, Security and Development, The RUSI Journal, Nationalities Papers, Peace Review amongst others. He is a member of the editorial board of Ethnopolitics.
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Majak D’Agoôt Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, King’s College London, Strand, London, UKMajak D’Agoôt is a visiting senior research fellow at the African Leadership Centre in the School of Public Policy and Social Sciences, King’s College London. He is a former deputy chief of Sudan intelligence and defence minister of South Sudan. He holds MSc in Quantitative Finance and a PhD in Financial Economics from University of London. He also obtained an MSc in Security Sector Management from the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, Cranfield University and an MA in War Studies from King’s College London. He has published articles in Intelligence and National Security, Defence and Security, Small Wars & Insurgencies, Risk Research, Middle East Policy, and, Political and Military Sociology. His research interest covers risk analysis, insurgency and counterinsurgency, intelligence, and civil military relations.
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Small Wars & Insurgencies
By Edoardo Corradi Giampiero Cama Department of Political and International Sciences, University of Genoa, Genoa, ItalyEdoardo Corradi is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Genoa and Fellow at Civil War Paths. His research interests include foreign fighters’ mobilisation, civil wars, rebel governance, and rebel diplomacy. He is also Assistant Teaching Professor at the Florida International University. His works have been published on outlets such as Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, Comparative European Politics and Italian Political Science Review.Giampiero Cama is Professor in Political Science at the Department of Political and International Sciences of the University of Genoa. His research interests include democratisation processes, civil wars, conflict resolution, and Iran domestic and foreign policy. His articles have been published on journal such as British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Contemporary Politics, and Italian Political Sciences. He co-authored the book titled “Contemporary domestic and foreign policies of Iran”.
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War & Society
By Vladimír Černý Miroslav Mareš Department of International Relations and European Studies and Department of Political Science, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech RepublicVladimír Černý is an assistant professor at the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He specialises in the history of international relations, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. His main research interests include the development of Central Europe between 1914 and 1989 and the armed conflicts of the previous two centuries.Miroslav Mareš is a professor at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. He is the guarantor of the Security and Strategic Studies study program and a researcher at the International Institute of Political Science of the FSS MU. He focuses on research on extremism, terrorism, and security policy in Central and Eastern Europe. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the European Expert Network on Terrorism Issues (EENeT).
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War & Society
By Laura Pérez Rastrilla Andrea Donofrio Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, SpainLaura Pérez Rastrilla works as a lecturer in Mass Media History at Complutense University of Madrid. Her PhD thesis (2018) addressed NATO’s propaganda campaign during the bombing of Yugoslavia and how it was portrayed in the Spanish media. Her research is focused on war propaganda and political communication.Andrea Donofrio works as a lecturer in History of Political Thought at Complutense University of Madrid. Author of Érase una vez el eurocomunismo. Las razones de un fracaso (2018), his research is focused on the history of political and social movements and political comics.
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War & Society
By Florin Nicolae Ardelean Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaFlorin Nicolae Ardelean is a researcher of late mediaeval and early modern military and social history. He has written and edited several volumes on these topics, in Romanian and English: Between Worlds: The Age of the Jagiellonians (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013), From Mediaeval Frontiers to Early Modern Borders in Central and South-Eastern Europe (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022) and On the Borderlands of Great Empires: Transylvanian Armies 1541–1613 (Warwick: Helion & Company, 2022). His publications are based on extensive research in Romanian, Hungarian and Austrian archives and libraries.
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War & Society
By Godfrey Maringira Social Anthropology, Faculty of Humanities, Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, South AfricaGodfrey Maringira is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Sol Plaatje University, Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa. His areas of research include armed violence in Africa with a specific focus on the military in postcolonial Africa. His African Affairs’ journal article, ‘Politicisation and Resistance in the Zimbabwe National Army’, was awarded the best author prize at University of Birmingham, UK, African Studies Association conference in 2018. He is the author of Soldiers and the State in Zimbabwe, Routledge, 2019.
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War & Society
By Petra Hamer Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Ljubljana, SloveniaPetra Hamer is an ethnologist and cultural anthropologist interested in popular music and culture in Southeastern Europe in the 20th and 21st century. She holds a PhD from the University of Graz, where she researched the production of popular music by Bosnian and Herzegovinian army artistic units, focusing on the question of national identity construction in multi-ethnic society. Her main research interests include popular culture studies, history of Yugoslavia, post-Yugoslav space, ethnomusicology, and migration studies. Currently she works as a postdoctoral researcher at the ERC project DEAGENCY (№ 101095729), researching the role of the dead in Bosnian and Herzegovinian contemporary society in the context of reflecting on the mass graves.
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War & Society
By Eva Johais Postdoctoral researcher at Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, NorwayEva Johais is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC-funded project ‘War and Fun: Reconceptualising Warfare and Its Experience’. Her research aims at understanding the sociology of international politics, war, and militarisation. To this end, she has studied the experiences and culture of soldiers as well as different types of intervention, including politics of state-building, electoral assistance, and humanitarian aid.
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War & Society
By Heidi Mogstad Chr. Michelsen Institute, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bergen, NorwayHeidi Mogstad is a postdoctoral scholar at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway. She has a PhD in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University and master’s degrees from London School of Economics and the University of Cape Town. Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on lived experiences and contestations of humanitarianism, war, and border policies. She is the author of Humanitarian Shame and Redemption: Norwegian Citizens Helping Refugees in Greece (Berghahn Books, 2023).
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War & Society
By Iva Jelušić Christian Michelsen Institute, Bergen, NorwayIva Jelušić is a post-doctoral researcher at the ERC-funded ‘War and Fun: Reconceptualising Warfare and Its Experience’. Iva undertook a doctoral programme in Comparative History at the Department of History at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary/Vienna, Austria). Prior to this, she completed a Master of Arts in European Women’s and Gender History at the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University in 2015. Her research interests include social history, especially women’s and gender history, and the history of feminism in the state socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and her main area of research is the Second World War, the politics of the past, and the development of the cultural memory of the Second World War in Yugoslavia.Corresponding author: Iva Jelušić. Email to: ipjelusic@gmail.com