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Peacebuilding, relief work and reconstruction Sir Charles Petrie Bt, OBE, having acquired an MBA at INSEAD and following a short stint as an investment banker, has had close to 30 years’ experience working in contexts of conflict and famine, much of it within the UN system. With the UN, he has assumed senior level operational […]
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Leadership, conflict and strategy After 34 years in the Army, Rob is now Chief Executive Officer of AGL Communication, a leadership communication coaching and training company in London. Educated at Cambridge University (History) and Kings College London (Defence Studies), Rob was commissioned into the Royal Green Jackets in 1988, which became The Rifles in 2007. A […]
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The Middle East and North Africa, Women and conflict, Sectarianism in Syria Dr Rahaf Aldoughli is an esteemed academic who holds the position of lecturer at Lancaster University, where she specializes in the field of Middle East and North African studies. In addition to her academic position, she holds the position of Director of Research […]
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Constitutional Law and Freedom of Speech Professor Adam Tomkins started his academic career in 1991 at King’s College London, before moving to Oxford, where he was a fellow at St Catherine’s College. He took up the John Millar Chair of Public Law at the University of Glasgow in 2003. From 2009-15 he was the legal […]
Continue ReadingMiddle Eastern politics and international relations Haian Dukhan is a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Teesside University, England and is a Fellow of the Centre for Syrian Studies at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. In 2017, Haian earned a PhD in International Relations from the University of St Andrews. His doctoral research […]
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Latin America, Postmodernity and Religion & Society Dr Pablo Baisotti is a historian and political scientist who is committed to a multidisciplinary approach to contemporary Latin American studies. After undergraduate studies at the Jesuit University del Salvador (USAL) in his native Argentina, Pablo gained an MA and PhD from the ancient University of Bologna, Italy. […]
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Bangladesh, public policy and conflict Krishna Kumar Saha is Assistant Professor of Public Administration at Comilla University, Bangladesh. He is presently engaged in doctoral studies (on ‘Power and Legitimacy in conflict mediation in rural Bangladesh’) under Professor Bert Suykens in the Department of Conflict and Development Studies, Ghent University, Belgium. As a graduate of Heidelberg […]
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Religion, Culture and Proselytization John Arun Kumar is a Religious Studies expert, who recently retired as the Head of the Intercultural and Religious Studies Department at SAIACS, Bengaluru, India. Arun’s PhD from the University of Leeds was an anthropological and sociological study of Hindu popular religion. Prior to his theological training, Arun was a Civil […]
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Diplomacy Nicholas Hopton was born in Manchester and raised in York. After St Peter’s School, he studied at Cambridge University, La Sapienza University in Rome and ENA in Paris. He was a Visiting Academic at St Antony’s College, Oxford, in 2013/14. Nicholas’ career has been in diplomacy. Until September 2021, he was UK ambassador to […]
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Religion and Culture in South Asia Varughese John is Professor and Dean of Doctoral Studies at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS), Bengaluru. He received his Ph.D. (Kierkegaard studies) as a Fellow of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. He was awarded the Kierkegaard House Foundation Fellowship at the Howard & Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library […]
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