Analysis of how conflict and terrorist dynamics may change as a direct or indirect result of coronavirus

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

FCO Areas of research interest coronavirus COVID 19 update May 2020 GOVUK

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Related UKRI funded projects

  • The Changing Character of Conflict Platform: Understanding, Tracing and Forecasting Change across Time, Space and Cultures

    We will develop the "Changing Character of Conflict (CCC) Platform" that will transform current ways of thinking about conflict in three ways: first, the project will be the first of its kind to produce a compr...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Oxford

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project will provide a comprehensive understanding of how conflict changes and will forecast the directions and pace of change in conflict.

  • Beyond Iraq: The War on Terror on the Periphery

    This research will examine the 'war on terror' beyond Iraq and Afghanistan. The focus of academic and media discussion so far has been on the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, but the Bush administration also undertook ...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Nottingham

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project examines the 'war on terror' beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, providing a more complete picture of conflict dynamics.

  • Network for Change: Building on the Changing Character of Conflict Platform

    This project transforms the knowledge base established by the AHRC/ESRC funded project "The Changing Character of Conflict Platform: Understanding, Tracing, and Forecasting Change across Time, Space, and Cultures&qu...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Oxford

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project transforms the knowledge base on conflict dynamics into a network for change, facilitating effective responses to armed conflict.

  • Predicting the escalation of conflict: A global forecasting approach to conflict escalation using big data

    The key objective of this research project is to forecast conflict escalation of intra-state armed conflicts, such as Syria, Libya, or Egypt, and deliver forecasting software packages that can be implemented by users of ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University College London

  • Rethinking the Philosophy of Terrorism

    This project will, for the first time, bring together philosophers, terrorism researchers and non-academic stakeholders in a joint research network. The main objectives of this network are to: initiate a cross-disciplina...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Warwick

  • Staging Peace: International Observatory of Peace Media (GCRF Development Award)

    This Development Award responds to GCRF's call "Preventing Conflict" through the consolidation of an expert team of researchers, and a diverse array of policy and civil society partners across four ODA-listed c...

    Funded by: GCRF

    Lead research organisation: University of Leeds

  • Understanding and explaining terrorism: Expertise in practice

    Because terrorism and counter-terrorism are highly significant issues in international relations and domestic politics, terrorism expertise is a valued asset in public policy, the criminal justice system in media institu...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Bath

  • Into the Grey: Grey Zone Warfare in Past, Present, and Future

    'Grey zone warfare' emerged as a key strategic global challenges in 2014. Russian operations in Ukraine, which were not part of any declared or easily recognisable form of warfare, confounded academics, pundits, politici...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Lead research organisation: Lancaster University

  • The Political Effects of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles on Conflict and Cooperation within and between States

    This project will examine the impact of a recent and on-going development in science and technology (drones) on prospects for conflict and cooperation in countries where drones are deployed. The use of armed and unarmed ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Birmingham

  • Ethics and Security: Terrorism and Transnational Organized Crime

    This project introduces ethics research into the Global Uncertainties programme and adds value to on-going security research in the programme. The ethics research juxtaposes terrorism and transnational organized crime. O...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Warwick

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