Conflict and Security
RUSI’s work offers detailed conflict analysis set against different contexts, and examines conflict prevention, resolution and longer-term recovery.
With expertise across a range of thematic and geographic perspectives, RUSI’s work on violence reflects the complex, multi-dimensional nature of contemporary conflict.
Alongside an annual conference on peacekeeping, we focus on conflict detection and other analytical work conducted across different regions. We also assess the experiences and implications of conflict through a gender lens; consider how different iterations of militancy, including violent extremism, emerge and intersect with wider conflict environments; investigate decentralised forms of violence in state peripheries and across national borders; and assess local, state, institutional and international approaches to conflict prevention, resolution and longer-term recovery.
Our experts
Ed Arnold
Senior Research Fellow, European Security
International Security
Christopher Hockey
Senior Research Fellow
RUSI Nairobi
Michael Jones
Research Fellow
Terrorism and Conflict
Dr Neil Melvin
Director, International Security
International Security
Dr Burcu Ozcelik
Senior Research Fellow, Middle East Security
International Security
Matthew Savill
Director of Military Sciences
Military Sciences
Emily Winterbotham
Director of Terrorism and Conflict Studies
Terrorism and Conflict
Rose Chelangat
Violence Monitoring Consultant
Fellows
Dr Fola Aina
Associate Fellow; International security analyst and researcher
Professor Sultan Barakat
Senior Associate Fellow - Expert in post-war reconstruction and state-building
General Sir Richard Barrons KCB CBE
Distinguished Fellow
Oliver Blake
Senior Associate Fellow
Lieutenant General Sir Nick Borton KCB DSO MBE
RUSI Distinguished Fellow
Dr Vinicius Mariano de Carvalho
Associate Fellow; Reader in Brazilian and Latin American Studies, KCL
Jennifer Cole
Associate Fellow
Sam Cranny-Evans
Associate Fellow
Dr Tobias Feakin
Senior Associate Fellow
Professor Ann M. Fitz-Gerald
Senior Associate Fellow
Matt Freear
Associate Fellow
Professor Tracey German
Senior Associate Fellow; Deputy Dean of Studies (Research), Defence Studies Department, King's College London
Dr Andrew Glazzard OBE
Senior Associate Fellow
John Griffiths-Spielman
Distinguished Fellow; Head of Security and Defence Studies, AthenaLab, Chile
Dr Alexander Gilder
Associate Fellow
Ahmed Hassen
Associate Fellow - Specialist in security of East Africa and the Horn
Professor Beatrice Heuser
Senior Associate Fellow
Isabel Hilton OBE
Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Frank Hoffman
Senior Associate Fellow
Georgia Holmer
Senior Associate Fellow
Professor Christopher Hughes
Senior Associate Fellow
Professor William Hurst
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow
Professor Valur Ingimundarson
Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of Contemporary History, University of Iceland
Galen Lamphere-Englund
Associate Fellow
Whit Mason
Associate Fellow
Clovis Meath Baker CMG OBE
Associate Fellow
Dr Simon Staffell
Associate Fellow
Dr Greg Mills
Senior Associate Fellow and Advisory Board Member
Luniya Msuku
Associate Fellow
Dr Orzala Nemat
Senior Associate Fellow
Catherine Nettleton CMG OBE
RUSI Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Michael Nwankpa
Associate Fellow; Founding Director/Director of Research at the Centre for African Conflict and Development, London
Raffaello Pantucci
Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Imogen Parsons
Former Senior Research Fellow
Professor David L. Phillips
Senior Associate Fellow - Expert in conflict resolution and mediation
Dr Samuel Ramani
Associate Fellow; Tutor of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
Dr Max Smeets
Associate Fellow; Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, and Director of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative
Dr Andrew E. Yaw Tchie
Associate Fellow; Senior Research Fellow at the Training for Peace Programme
Juan Pablo Toro
Senior Associate Fellow; Executive Director of AthenaLab, Chile
Dr Ian Westerman
RUSI Associate Fellow
Tim Willasey-Wilsey CMG
Senior Associate Fellow
