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Rod Thornton
- The Kurds as Proxies in Iraq and Syria: A Problematic Relationship for Western Powers
Andrew Noakes
- Boko Haram: Can a Peace Deal be Negotiated?
Doug Weir
- What the Absence of the Environment in SDG 16 on Peace and Security Should Tell Us
Ben Zala
- The ‘High Politics’ of Sustainable Security
Matt Budd
- Belize: challenges and contradictions in gang policy
Rob Forsyth
- Trident – Why I Changed My Mind About the UK’s Nuclear Weapons
Stephen Hopkins
- Brexit and the Irish Nationalist Reaction
Florian Krampe and Ashok Swain
- Carefully Managing Water Resources to Build Sustainable Peace
Sarah Hewitt
- Intersecting Commitments: the Responsibility to Protect and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Iain R. Edgar
- Islamic State and Dream Warfare
Roos Haer
- Lost Generations? Consequences of and Responses to Child Soldier Recruitment
Doris H. Gray
- Islamic Feminisms – A Challenge to Patriarchy and Traditional Religious Authority
Greg Simons
- Fatal Attraction: The Lure of Islamic State
David T. Burbach
- The Coming Peace: Africa’s Declining Conflicts
Richard Reeve
- Too Quiet on the Western Front? The Sahel-Sahara between Arab Spring and Black Spring
Haroro J. Ingram
- How ISIS Survives Defeat: Propaganda and Decisive Minorities
Mahmood Monshipouri
- Europe’s Borders, Refugees, and the Islamic State
Conor Keane
- US Foreign Policy Bureaucracy in Afghanistan
Timothy Aistrope
- Muslim Paranoia? Ideology and the Limits of Engagement
Jürgen Scheffran
- Governing the Anthropocene: Complex Crises and Transitions to Sustainable Peace
Yelena Biberman
- When the Strong Weaponize the Weak: States and Guerrilla Warfare
Foeke Postma
- Swarms Over the Savannas: How Drones Are Gaining More Traction in Africa
Alpaslan Ozerdem
- The Role of Youth in Peacebuilding: Challenges and Opportunities
Sofia Vasilopoulou and Daphne Halikiopoulou
- Rising Golden Dawn: Inside Greece’s Neo-Nazi Party
Sukanya Podder
- Post-UNMIL Adaptation and Security in Liberia
Rachel Staley
- The Threat of Nuclear Disconnect: Engaging the Next Generation
Metin Gürcan
- Arming Civilians for Counter-Terrorism: Turkey’s Village Guard System
Outi Keranen
- Libyan Lessons: Bring back the Responsibility to Rebuild
Nils-Christian Bormann, Manuel Vogt and Lars-Erik Cederman
- Language, Religion, and Ethnic Civil Wars
Rachel Julian
- Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Paul Rogers
- VIDEO – Transforming Food Systems in a Global Context
David Cliff
- Chemical Weapons Use in Syria: a Test of the Norm
Jenny Nielsen
- Reviewing the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at 20
Mabel González Bustelo
- Honduras, the Perfect Storm?
Bernard Harborne
- The Costs of Security Sector Reform: Questions of Affordability and Purpose
Sonja Wolf
- Mexico’s Conflicting Migration Policy Goals: National Security and Human Rights
Edward Rackley
- Security Sector Roles in Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Anna Alissa Hitzemann
- Mali: Another Long War? (Part 2)
Caroline Donnellan
- 10 years of US Drone Strikes in Pakistan – What Impact Has it Had?
Janani Vivekananda
- Deforestation: REDD-y for peace or fuelling conflict?
Isabelle Geuskens
- Shrinking space: The impact of counter-terrorism measures on the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Isabel Hilton
- In Deep Water: China tests its neighbours’ patience
Kathryn Hofstra
- From The Great War to Drone Wars: The imperative to record casualties
Wim Zwijnenburg
- DU-turn? The changing political environment around toxic munitions
Esther Kersley
- Beyond Privacy: The Costs and Consequences of Mass Surveillance
Betsy Barkas
- The UK’s foreign fighters in Syria: rethinking the threat
Phillip Bruner
- ‘Petropolitics’ and the price of freedom
RESDAL
- A long road ahead: integrating gender perspectives into peacekeeping operations
Omega Research Foundation
- Floating liabilities? Maritime armouries, risks and solutions
Steve Trent
- Climate refugees: Human insecurity in a warming world
Rebecca Sharkey
- Momentum towards a nuclear weapons ban treaty: what does it mean for the UK?
Elizabeth Minor
- Losing control over the use of force: fully autonomous weapons systems and the international movement to ban them
Zoï
- The Ukraine conflict’s legacy of environmental damage and pollutants
Marianne Hanson
- 2015: Towards a brave new nuclear world?
Lene Grimstad
- The UN’s Meetings on Autonomous Weapons: Biting the Bullet, or Lost in Abstraction?
Crofton Black
- Expanding Contracting: The Private Sector’s Role in Drone Surveillance and Targeting
Finbar Anderson
- A Sharper Edge: QME, the Iran Deal and the Gulf Arms Race
Lisa Dittmar
- Nitrogen: a driver of global food insecurity?
Tim Street
- Thinking beyond the bomb: how can the UK help create a nuclear weapons-free world?
Gerrit Kurtz
- “Guerrilla Diplomats”: Conflict Prevention Through Frontline Diplomacy
Tor A. Benjaminsen
- Does Climate Change Cause Conflicts in the Sahel?
Antoine Perret
- Privatising the War on Drugs: PMSCs in Colombia and Mexico
Murray Carroll
- Has Paris Opened the Door for a UNSC Climate Court?
Alejandro Sanchez
- From Surveillance to Smuggling: Drones in the War on Drugs
Vanda Felbab-Brown
- Drugs and Drones: The Crime Empire Strikes Back
Andrew Holland
- National Security, Climate Change and the Philippine Typhoon
Alise Coen
- The Responsibility to Protect and the Refugee Crisis
Laurence Menhinick
- What the Environmental Legacy of the Gulf War Should Teach us
Duncan Depledge
- Sustainable Security in the Arctic
Jelke Boesten
- Of Ruptures and Continuities: Sexual Violence in Conflict
Hans De Marie Heungoup
- Q&A: Boko Haram in Cameroon
Andrew Smith
- The Legal Case Against the Saudi-Led Intervention in Yemen
Gabriel Weimann
- Terrorists Turn Social Media into Antisocial Media
Hammad Sheikh
- Sustainable Security and Sacred Values
Bill Durodié
- After Brussels – It’s Time to Challenge Our Authorities and Move Beyond Prevent
Cameron Harrington
- Water Security in South Africa: The need to build social and ecological resilience
Benedetta Berti
- Did Operation Unified Protector in Libya Strengthen R2P?
Andrew Smith and Vyara Gylsen
- Challenging UK Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia in the Courts
Gëzim Visoka and John Doyle
- The European Union and Conflict Resolution
Malte Brosig
- Peacekeeping within African Regime Complexity
Lindy Heinecken
- Challenges Facing Women in Peacekeeping
Jane Freedman
- Understanding Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Deane-Peter Baker
- Privatised Peacekeeping?
Jonas Wolff
- Inspirations for Post-liberal Peacebuilding from Latin America
Richard Milburn
- Conservation as a Tool for Post-War Recovery
Jairo Munive
- Beyond Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-combatants
Andrew Garwood-Gowers
- China and the Responsibility to Protect
Amanda J. Reinke
- Gender-Relational Peacebuilding in Uganda
Maya Eichler
- Gender and Private Security
Kai Michael Kenkel
- Brazil and the “Responsibility While Protecting” Initiative
Jérémie Gilbert
- Nomadism, Land Disputes and Security
Chris Abbott
- US Drone Strikes in Pakistan: ineffective and illegitimate
Julian Bergmann
- The European Union as a Peace Mediator
Jennifer Curtis
- Human Rights as Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland
Rosaleen Duffy
- Militarising Conservation: A Triple ‘Fail’ for Security, People and Wildlife
Gordon Clubb
- Can Former Combatants Assist in Preventing Violence?
Kathleen Jennings
- ‘Blue Helmet Havens’ – Separation and Segregation in Peacekeeping
Anthony Rinna
- Sino-Russian Border Security
Linnéa Gelot
- Prevention and Militarization in Africa’s Security Governance: Mirror Images?
Yvonne M. Dutton
- Fighting Maritime Piracy with Private Armed Guards
Meredith Loken and Anna Zelenz
- Why Do Western Women Join Daesh?
Sarah Kinosian
- Self-Defense? Mexico Gambles on Vigilante Security
Tara Lai Quinlan
- The NYPD’s Post-9/11 Counterterrorism Programme
Abigail Watson
- Russia’s Strike Against Special Forces and the UK’s ‘No Comment’ Policy
Lisa DeLance
- Women and Combat: The Case of the British Military
Christiane Fröhlich
- Climate Change – Migration – Conflict. What’s the Connection?
David A. Shirk
- Crime, Violence, and State Responses in Mexico
Christopher Rossi
- No Joy in Juba: South Sudan and R2P
Anne Bartlett
- Markets, Minerals and Mayhem in Darfur
Han Dorussen
- More than Taxi-drivers? Pitfalls and Prospects of Local Peacekeeping
Mari Fitzduff
- What Does Neuroscience Have to Offer Peacebuilders?
Mahmood Monshipouri and William V. Dunlap
- Drone Strikes and Never-Ending Wars
Chris Abbott and Matthew Clarke
- How to Respond to the Threat from Hostile Drones in the UK
Mohammed Abu-Nimer
- Interreligious Peacebuilding: An Emerging Field of Research and Practice
SusSec Team
- Interview – Lisa Stampnitzky
Tim Oliver
- Brexit or Bremain for British Security?
Zoë Pelter
- Quiet Legacies and Long Shadows: The Obama era of counterterrorism in the Sahel-Sahara

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Rod Thornton
- The Kurds as Proxies in Iraq and Syria: A Problematic Relationship for Western Powers
Andrew Noakes
- Boko Haram: Can a Peace Deal be Negotiated?
Doug Weir
- What the Absence of the Environment in SDG 16 on Peace and Security Should Tell Us
Ben Zala
- The ‘High Politics’ of Sustainable Security
Matt Budd
- Belize: challenges and contradictions in gang policy
Rob Forsyth
- Trident – Why I Changed My Mind About the UK’s Nuclear Weapons
Stephen Hopkins
- Brexit and the Irish Nationalist Reaction
Florian Krampe and Ashok Swain
- Carefully Managing Water Resources to Build Sustainable Peace
Sarah Hewitt
- Intersecting Commitments: the Responsibility to Protect and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Iain R. Edgar
- Islamic State and Dream Warfare
Roos Haer
- Lost Generations? Consequences of and Responses to Child Soldier Recruitment
Doris H. Gray
- Islamic Feminisms – A Challenge to Patriarchy and Traditional Religious Authority
Greg Simons
- Fatal Attraction: The Lure of Islamic State
David T. Burbach
- The Coming Peace: Africa’s Declining Conflicts
Richard Reeve
- Too Quiet on the Western Front? The Sahel-Sahara between Arab Spring and Black Spring
Haroro J. Ingram
- How ISIS Survives Defeat: Propaganda and Decisive Minorities
Mahmood Monshipouri
- Europe’s Borders, Refugees, and the Islamic State
Conor Keane
- US Foreign Policy Bureaucracy in Afghanistan
Timothy Aistrope
- Muslim Paranoia? Ideology and the Limits of Engagement
Jürgen Scheffran
- Governing the Anthropocene: Complex Crises and Transitions to Sustainable Peace
Yelena Biberman
- When the Strong Weaponize the Weak: States and Guerrilla Warfare
Foeke Postma
- Swarms Over the Savannas: How Drones Are Gaining More Traction in Africa
Alpaslan Ozerdem
- The Role of Youth in Peacebuilding: Challenges and Opportunities
Sofia Vasilopoulou and Daphne Halikiopoulou
- Rising Golden Dawn: Inside Greece’s Neo-Nazi Party
Sukanya Podder
- Post-UNMIL Adaptation and Security in Liberia
Rachel Staley
- The Threat of Nuclear Disconnect: Engaging the Next Generation
Metin Gürcan
- Arming Civilians for Counter-Terrorism: Turkey’s Village Guard System
Outi Keranen
- Libyan Lessons: Bring back the Responsibility to Rebuild
Nils-Christian Bormann, Manuel Vogt and Lars-Erik Cederman
- Language, Religion, and Ethnic Civil Wars
Rachel Julian
- Unarmed Civilian Peacekeeping
Paul Rogers
- VIDEO – Transforming Food Systems in a Global Context
David Cliff
- Chemical Weapons Use in Syria: a Test of the Norm
Jenny Nielsen
- Reviewing the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at 20
Mabel González Bustelo
- Honduras, the Perfect Storm?
Bernard Harborne
- The Costs of Security Sector Reform: Questions of Affordability and Purpose
Sonja Wolf
- Mexico’s Conflicting Migration Policy Goals: National Security and Human Rights
Edward Rackley
- Security Sector Roles in Sexual and Gender-based Violence
Anna Alissa Hitzemann
- Mali: Another Long War? (Part 2)
Caroline Donnellan
- 10 years of US Drone Strikes in Pakistan – What Impact Has it Had?
Janani Vivekananda
- Deforestation: REDD-y for peace or fuelling conflict?
Isabelle Geuskens
- Shrinking space: The impact of counter-terrorism measures on the Women, Peace and Security agenda
Isabel Hilton
- In Deep Water: China tests its neighbours’ patience
Kathryn Hofstra
- From The Great War to Drone Wars: The imperative to record casualties
Wim Zwijnenburg
- DU-turn? The changing political environment around toxic munitions
Esther Kersley
- Beyond Privacy: The Costs and Consequences of Mass Surveillance
Betsy Barkas
- The UK’s foreign fighters in Syria: rethinking the threat
Phillip Bruner
- ‘Petropolitics’ and the price of freedom
RESDAL
- A long road ahead: integrating gender perspectives into peacekeeping operations
Omega Research Foundation
- Floating liabilities? Maritime armouries, risks and solutions
Steve Trent
- Climate refugees: Human insecurity in a warming world
Rebecca Sharkey
- Momentum towards a nuclear weapons ban treaty: what does it mean for the UK?
Elizabeth Minor
- Losing control over the use of force: fully autonomous weapons systems and the international movement to ban them
Zoï
- The Ukraine conflict’s legacy of environmental damage and pollutants
Marianne Hanson
- 2015: Towards a brave new nuclear world?
Lene Grimstad
- The UN’s Meetings on Autonomous Weapons: Biting the Bullet, or Lost in Abstraction?
Crofton Black
- Expanding Contracting: The Private Sector’s Role in Drone Surveillance and Targeting
Finbar Anderson
- A Sharper Edge: QME, the Iran Deal and the Gulf Arms Race
Lisa Dittmar
- Nitrogen: a driver of global food insecurity?
Tim Street
- Thinking beyond the bomb: how can the UK help create a nuclear weapons-free world?
Gerrit Kurtz
- “Guerrilla Diplomats”: Conflict Prevention Through Frontline Diplomacy
Tor A. Benjaminsen
- Does Climate Change Cause Conflicts in the Sahel?
Antoine Perret
- Privatising the War on Drugs: PMSCs in Colombia and Mexico
Murray Carroll
- Has Paris Opened the Door for a UNSC Climate Court?
Alejandro Sanchez
- From Surveillance to Smuggling: Drones in the War on Drugs
Vanda Felbab-Brown
- Drugs and Drones: The Crime Empire Strikes Back
Andrew Holland
- National Security, Climate Change and the Philippine Typhoon
Alise Coen
- The Responsibility to Protect and the Refugee Crisis
Laurence Menhinick
- What the Environmental Legacy of the Gulf War Should Teach us
Duncan Depledge
- Sustainable Security in the Arctic
Jelke Boesten
- Of Ruptures and Continuities: Sexual Violence in Conflict
Hans De Marie Heungoup
- Q&A: Boko Haram in Cameroon
Andrew Smith
- The Legal Case Against the Saudi-Led Intervention in Yemen
Gabriel Weimann
- Terrorists Turn Social Media into Antisocial Media
Hammad Sheikh
- Sustainable Security and Sacred Values
Bill Durodié
- After Brussels – It’s Time to Challenge Our Authorities and Move Beyond Prevent
Cameron Harrington
- Water Security in South Africa: The need to build social and ecological resilience
Benedetta Berti
- Did Operation Unified Protector in Libya Strengthen R2P?
Andrew Smith and Vyara Gylsen
- Challenging UK Arms Sales to Saudi Arabia in the Courts
Gëzim Visoka and John Doyle
- The European Union and Conflict Resolution
Malte Brosig
- Peacekeeping within African Regime Complexity
Lindy Heinecken
- Challenges Facing Women in Peacekeeping
Jane Freedman
- Understanding Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Deane-Peter Baker
- Privatised Peacekeeping?
Jonas Wolff
- Inspirations for Post-liberal Peacebuilding from Latin America
Richard Milburn
- Conservation as a Tool for Post-War Recovery
Jairo Munive
- Beyond Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration of Ex-combatants
Andrew Garwood-Gowers
- China and the Responsibility to Protect
Amanda J. Reinke
- Gender-Relational Peacebuilding in Uganda
Maya Eichler
- Gender and Private Security
Kai Michael Kenkel
- Brazil and the “Responsibility While Protecting” Initiative
Jérémie Gilbert
- Nomadism, Land Disputes and Security
Chris Abbott
- US Drone Strikes in Pakistan: ineffective and illegitimate
Julian Bergmann
- The European Union as a Peace Mediator
Jennifer Curtis
- Human Rights as Conflict Resolution in Northern Ireland
Rosaleen Duffy
- Militarising Conservation: A Triple ‘Fail’ for Security, People and Wildlife
Gordon Clubb
- Can Former Combatants Assist in Preventing Violence?
Kathleen Jennings
- ‘Blue Helmet Havens’ – Separation and Segregation in Peacekeeping
Anthony Rinna
- Sino-Russian Border Security
Linnéa Gelot
- Prevention and Militarization in Africa’s Security Governance: Mirror Images?
Yvonne M. Dutton
- Fighting Maritime Piracy with Private Armed Guards
Meredith Loken and Anna Zelenz
- Why Do Western Women Join Daesh?
Sarah Kinosian
- Self-Defense? Mexico Gambles on Vigilante Security
Tara Lai Quinlan
- The NYPD’s Post-9/11 Counterterrorism Programme
Abigail Watson
- Russia’s Strike Against Special Forces and the UK’s ‘No Comment’ Policy
Lisa DeLance
- Women and Combat: The Case of the British Military
Christiane Fröhlich
- Climate Change – Migration – Conflict. What’s the Connection?
David A. Shirk
- Crime, Violence, and State Responses in Mexico
Christopher Rossi
- No Joy in Juba: South Sudan and R2P
Anne Bartlett
- Markets, Minerals and Mayhem in Darfur
Han Dorussen
- More than Taxi-drivers? Pitfalls and Prospects of Local Peacekeeping
Mari Fitzduff
- What Does Neuroscience Have to Offer Peacebuilders?
Mahmood Monshipouri and William V. Dunlap
- Drone Strikes and Never-Ending Wars
Chris Abbott and Matthew Clarke
- How to Respond to the Threat from Hostile Drones in the UK
Mohammed Abu-Nimer
- Interreligious Peacebuilding: An Emerging Field of Research and Practice
SusSec Team
- Interview – Lisa Stampnitzky
Tim Oliver
- Brexit or Bremain for British Security?
Zoë Pelter
- Quiet Legacies and Long Shadows: The Obama era of counterterrorism in the Sahel-Sahara

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