Launching Soon|27 September 2024| Prof. Dr. Richard Jackson

Professor Richard Jackson, the Leading Thinker Chair in Peace Studies at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS), teaches courses such as PEAC 507: Critical Terrorism Studies and INTS 509: Global Peace and Conflict. He supervises student projects in areas including pacifism, anarchism, civilian-based nonviolent national defense, nonviolent resistance movements, unarmed peacekeeping, and critical terrorism studies. His research expertise encompasses pacifism and nonviolence, the social construction of war, international conflict resolution, and political development in African states. As the founding editor-in-chief of Critical Studies on Terrorism and series editor for the Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies book series, he has authored or edited 15 books and over 100 journal articles. Notable recent works include Revolutionary Nonviolence (2020), Encountering Extremism (2020), and The Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies (2016). His most cited book is Writing the War on Terrorism (2005), and he also authored the novel Confessions of a Terrorist (2014).