Editors and Associate Editors
Editor
Ben Zala
Ben Zala is the Manager of the Sustainable Security Programme at the Oxford Research Group. He is also a PhD candidate in International Relations and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Birmingham and holds a Bachelor of International Relations with first class honours from La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has previously worked at Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs) in the Energy, Environment and Development Programme and the La Trobe University Centre for Dialogue where he was also the editorial assistant for the scholarly journal Global Change, Peace and Security. He has also previously worked for the Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia). He has worked on security issues for a number of years and has published and spoken at conferences on issues of nuclear proliferation, arms control and disarmament and multilateral institutions.
Associate Editors
Chris Abbott
Chris Abbott is a freelance writer and researcher and Executive Director of Open Briefing. He is an honorary Sustainable Security Consultant at Oxford Research Group, where he was the organisation’s Deputy Director and Director of their sustainable security programme until June 2009 (a programme he initiated in 2006 and remains on the advisory board for). During his time at ORG he founded SustainableSecurity.org and was the author or co-author of numerous sustainable security publications, including An Uncertain Future: Law Enforcement, National Security and Climate Change (ORG, 2008), Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World (Rider, 2007) and Global Responses to Global Threats: Sustainable Security for the 21st Century (ORG, 2006). Since leaving ORG he has been appointed as an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford and written a second book, 21 Speeches That Shaped Our World: The People and Ideas That Changed the Way We Think (Rider, 2010).
Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers is Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford and Global Security Consultant to Oxford Research Group. Much of the sustainable security analysis is based on three decades of Professor Rogers’ work in the field of international security, arms control and political violence. He lectures at universities and defence colleges in several countries and has written or edited 26 books, including Global Security and the War on Terror: Elite Power and the Illusion of Control (Routledge, 2008) and Losing Control: Global Security in the Twenty-first Century (Pluto Press, 2002). Paul is also a regular commentator on global security issues in both the national and international media, and is openDemocracy’s International Security Editor.
John Sloboda
John Sloboda is Director of Oxford Research Group’s Recording Casualties in Armed Conflict programme. He is also Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Keele, and an Honorary Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at Royal Holloway, University of London. Since 2003, he has been co-director of the Iraq Body Count project. He is the co-author of Beyond Terror: The Truth About the Real Threats to Our World (Rider, 2007) and Global Responses to Global Threats: Sustainable Security for the 21st Century (ORG, 2006). He undertakes regular speaking engagements, and is an occasional author for openDemocracy. In July 2004, John was elected to the Fellowship of the British Academy.
