Conflict and Security

RUSI’s work offers detailed conflict analysis set against different contexts, and examines conflict prevention, resolution and longer-term recovery.




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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.

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Our experts


Ed Arnold

Research Fellow for European Security

International Security

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Dr Aniseh Bassiri Tabrizi

Senior Research Fellow, Middle East Security Studies

International Security

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Christopher Hockey

Research Fellow

RUSI Nairobi

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Michael Jones

Research Fellow

Terrorism and Conflict

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Dr Neil Melvin

Director, International Security

International Security

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Paul O’Neill

Director, Military Sciences

Military Sciences

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Emily Winterbotham

Director, Terrorism and Conflict

Terrorism and Conflict

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Fellows


Fola Aina

Associate Fellow; International security analyst and researcher

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General Sir Richard Barrons KCB CBE

Distinguished Fellow

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Theo Farrell

Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of War in the Modern World and Head of War Studies, KCL

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Dr Tobias Feakin

Senior Associate Fellow; Australian Ambassador for Cyber Affairs

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Professor Tracey German

Senior Associate Fellow; Deputy Dean of Studies (Research), Defence Studies Department, King's College London

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John Griffiths-Spielman

Distinguished Fellow; Head of Security and Defence Studies, AthenaLab, Chile

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Ahmed Hassen

Associate Fellow - Specialist in security of East Africa and the Horn

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Beatrice Heuser

Senior Associate Fellow

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Dr Frank Hoffman

Senior Associate Fellow

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Professor Valur Ingimundarson

Senior Associate Fellow; Professor of Contemporary History, University of Iceland

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Whit Mason

Associate Fellow

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Clovis Meath Baker CMG OBE

Associate Fellow

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Luniya Msuku

Associate Fellow

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Dr Michael Nwankpa

Associate Fellow; Founding Director/Director of Research at the Centre for African Conflict and Development, London

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Raffaello Pantucci

Senior Associate Fellow; Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Dr Imogen Parsons

Senior Research Fellow

Terrorism and Conflict

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Dr Samuel Ramani

Associate Fellow; Tutor of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford

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Dr Max Smeets

Associate Fellow; Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich, and Director of the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative

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Dr Andrew E. Yaw Tchie

Associate Fellow; Senior Research Fellow at the Training for Peace Programme

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Juan Pablo Toro

Senior Associate Fellow; Executive Director of AthenaLab, Chile

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