Terrorism, Peace and Conflict Studies

Ioannis Tellidis is Assistant Professor at the College of International Studies at Kyung Hee University, South Korea. His research focuses on terrorism and ethnopolitical violence, critical peacebuilding and new social media, and emerging actors in the international system.Harmonie Toros is Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent, UK. Her research focuses on conflict transformation approaches to terrorist conflicts in particular in the southern Philippine region of Mindanao and in Northern Ireland. She is currently investigating experiential approaches to conflicts and violence and how such knowledge can inform local and external interventions.

• 1. Introduction: Terrorism and peace and conflict studies: investigating the crossroad Harmonie Toros and Ioannis Tellidis 2. Lost cause: consequences and implications of the war on terror Paul Rogers 3. Not so extraordinary: the democratisation of UK counterinsurgency strategy Feargal Cochrane 4. Exploring the temporality in/of British counterterrorism law and law making Kathryn Marie Fisher 5. Terrorism, organised crime and the biopolitics of violence Harmonie Toros and Luca Mavelli 6. Deconstructing "eco-terrorism": rhetoric, framing and statecraft as seen through the Insight approach Michael Loadenthal 7. The power of words: the deficient terminology surrounding Islam-related terrorism Juan Carlos Antúnez and Ioannis Tellidis 8. Does counterinsurgency fuel civil war? Peru and Syria compared Witold Mucha 9. The link between the foreign policy of states and escalating political violence: Turkey and the PKK Ibrahim Can Sezgin 10. "Listing terrorists": the impact of proscription on third-party efforts to engage armed groups in peace processes – a practitioner’s perspective Sophie Haspeslagh 11. From paramilitarism to peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: an interview with Noel Large Harmonie Toros and Ioannis Tellidis 12. Look who’s talking: terrorism, dialogue and conflict transformation Roger Mac Ginty