Director: Professor Roger MacGinty (School of Government & International Affairs)
Deputy Director: Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Anthropology Department)
Deputy Director: Dr Catherine Turner (Law School)
Director of MSc Courses: Dr Olga Demetriou (School of Government & International Affairs)
Name
Role
Areas of supervision
Professor Jutta Bakonyi
Professor in Development and Conflict in the School of Government and International Affairs
Political Sociology of World Society
State Dynamics and Governance beyond the State
Dynamics of Violence and War
International Interventions
Urbanisation and Conflict
East Africa
Dr Kodili Chukwuma
Assistant Professor in International Security in the School of Government and International Affairs
critical security studies
critical terrorism studies
African politics
postcolonial theory
time(s) and space(s) of (in)security
International Relations Theory
Dr Olga Demetriou
Associate Professor in Post Conflict Reconstruction and State-Building in the School of Government and International Affairs
Governance and experience of displacement
Borders and Migration regimes
Conflict legacies and post-conflict society
Gendered subjectivities in war and peace
Southeast Europe
Dr Rob Geist-Pinfold
Lecturer in Peace and Security in the School of Government and International Affairs
Israeli foreign and security policy
military interventions and occupations
strategy and grand strategy
territorial conflict
Dr Stefanie Kappler
Associate Professor in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in the School of Government and International Affairs
Peacebuilding
The European Union and Peacebuilding
Spaces and places of peace and conflict
Research Methods in Peace Studies
Peace and the Arts
Memory and Conflict
Narrative Approaches
Bosnia-Herzegovina
South Africa
Cyprus
Northern Ireland
Dr Elisabeth Kirtsoglou
Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology
Gender
Greece
Identity
Politics
Migration and Refugee Issues
Prof Roger MacGinty
Professor in Defence, Development and Diplomacy in the School of Government and International Affairs
Peace
Everyday approaches to peace
International intervention
political violence
Dr Alex Neads
construction and diffusion of martial power
warfare and the history of war
security (force) assistance, military capacity building, and defence engagement
principal-agent theory and the use of proxies
military change and innovation, including defence reform processes
sociology of armed forces, especially military cohesion
civil-military relations and the politics of defence
Dr William Plowright
Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Government and International Affairs
intra-state conflict / civil war
non-state armed groups
humanitarian assistance
the politics of NGOs
international intervenism
Dr Catherine Turner
Associate Professor in the Durham Law School
Public International Law
Transitional Justice
Post Conflict Reconstruction
Mediation
Critical Legal Theory