People

Management Team

Director: Professor Roger Mac Ginty  (School of Government & International Affairs)

Deputy Director: Professor Elisabeth Kirtsoglou (Anthropology Department)

Deputy Director:  Professor Catherine Turner (Durham Law School)

Director of MSc Courses: Dr Alex Neads  (School of Government & International Affairs)

Core Staff

Name	Role	Areas of supervision
Professor Jutta Bakonyi	Professor in Development and Conflict in the School of Government & International Affairs	Political Sociology of World Society State Dynamics and Governance beyond the State Dynamics of Violence and War International Interventions Urbanisation and Conflict East Africa
Dr Kodili Chukwuma	Assistant Professor in International Security in the School of Government & International Affairs	Critical Security Studies Critical Terrorism Studies African Politics Postcolonial Theory Time(s) and Space(s) of (in) Security International Relations Theory
Professor Olga Demetriou	Associate Professor in Post Conflict Reconstruction and State-Building in the School of Government & International Affairs	Governance and Experience of Displacement Borders and Migration Regimes Conflict Legacies and Post-Conflict Society Gendered Subjectivities in War and Peace Southeast Europe
Dr Rob Geist-Pinfold	Lecturer in Peace and Security in the School of Government & International Affairs	Israeli Foreign and Security Policy Military Interventions and Occupations Strategy and Grand Strategy Territorial Conflict
Professor Stefanie Kappler	Associate Professor in Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding in the School of Government & International Affairs	Peacebuilding The European Union and Peacebuilding Spaces and places of peace and conflict Research Methods in Peace Studies Peace and the Arts Memory and Conflict Narrative Approaches Bosnia-Herzegovina South Africa Cyprus Northern Ireland
Professor Elisabeth Kirtsoglou	Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology	Gender Greece Identity Politics Migration and Refugee Issues
Professsor Roger MacGinty	Professor in Defence, Development and Diplomacy in the School of Government & International Affairs	Peace Peacebuilding Everyday Approaches to Peace International Intervention Political Violence
Dr Alex Neads	Assistant Professor in International Security in the School of Government & International Affairs	Construction and Diffusion of Martial Power Warfare and the History of War Security (Force) Assistance, Military Capacity Building, and Defence Engagement Principal-Agent Theory and The Use Of Proxies Military Change and Innovation, Including Defence Reform Processes Sociology of Armed Forces, Especially Military Cohesion Civil-Military Relations and The Politics Of Defence
Dr William Plowright	Assistant Professor in Peace and Conflict Studies in the School of Government & International Affairs	Intra-State Conflict/Civil War Non-State Armed Groups Humanitarian Assistance The Politics of NGOs International Intervenism
Professor Catherine Turner	Associate Professor in the Durham Law School	Public International Law Transitional Justice Post Conflict Reconstruction Mediation Critical Legal Theory
Dr Sarah McGibbon	Lecturer in International Peace and Security in the Durham Law School	Public International Law Non-State Actors in International Law Statehood; Use of Force International Peace & Security International Human Rights Law State Responsibility Critical Approaches to International Law

Associates, Durham University

Verity Adams, Law School
Dr Ilan Zvi Baron, School of Government & International Affairs
Dr Bahar Baser, School of Government & International Affair
Dr Rui Gomes Coelho, Department of Archaeology
Professor Anoush Ehteshami, School of Government & International Affairs
Dr Alice Finden, School of Government & International Affairs
Dr Anne Flasspoler, School of Government & International Affairs
Professor Clive Jones, School of Government & International Affairs
Professor Patrick Kuhn, School of Government & International Affairs
Professor Robert Layton, Department of Anthropology
Professor Ian Leigh, Law School
Dr Cherry Leonardi, Department of History
Dr Noam Leshem, Department of Geography
Dr Lauren Martin, Department of Geography
Dr Nayanika Mookherjee, Department of Anthropology
Professor Gina Porter, Department of Anthropology
Dr Alice Stefanelli, Department of Anthropology
Dr Tom Widger, Department of Anthropology
Professor John Williams, School of Government & International Affairs
Admir Jugo, Department of Anthropology