Aims and interests

Our cluster engages in contemporary and historical questions of international relations with a focus on peace and conflict. We provide a supportive space to discuss works in progress, papers, grant applications (and more), bringing together experienced academics with early career scholars and PhD students.

Our members use a variety of methodological approaches (both quantitative and qualitative) to study a wide range of critical topics in the field of peace and conflict, including (but not limited to):

• International security
• Terrorism, political violence and social movements
• Non-state actors, private security actors and foreign fighters in conflicts
• International intervention, humanitarianism and conflict prevention
• Atrocity prevention and civilian protection
• Mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution
• Media representations of war and peace
• Global inequalities and anticolonial movements
• Nationalism and ethnicity
• Comparative politics of the Middle East.