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
Research Fellow for European Security
International Security
Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi
Senior Research Fellow, Middle East Security Studies
International Security
Christopher Hockey
Research Fellow
RUSI Nairobi
Michael Jones
Research Fellow
Terrorism and Conflict
Dr Neil Melvin
Director, International Security
International Security
Paul O’Neill
Director, Military Sciences
Military Sciences
Emily Winterbotham
Director, Terrorism and Conflict
Terrorism and Conflict
Fellows
Fola Aina
Associate Fellow; International security analyst and researcher
General Sir Richard Barrons KCB CBE
Distinguished Fellow
Theo Farrell
Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of War in the Modern World and Head of War Studies, KCL
Dr Tobias Feakin
Senior Associate Fellow; Australian Ambassador for Cyber Affairs
Professor Tracey German
Senior Associate Fellow; Deputy Dean of Studies (Research), Defence Studies Department, King's College London
John Griffiths-Spielman
Distinguished Fellow; Head of Security and Defence Studies, AthenaLab, Chile
Ahmed Hassen
Associate Fellow - Specialist in security of East Africa and the Horn
Beatrice Heuser
Senior Associate Fellow
Dr Frank Hoffman
Senior Associate Fellow
Professor Valur Ingimundarson
Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of Contemporary History, University of Iceland
Whit Mason
Associate Fellow
Clovis Meath Baker CMG OBE
Associate Fellow
Luniya Msuku
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; Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr Imogen Parsons
Senior Research Fellow
Terrorism and Conflict
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
