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As Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews, Dr Saunders' research sits at the intersection of global politics and political theory, focusing on contemporary social and political thought as a framework for analysing pressing global issues. She has a particular interest in issue of forced migration, human rights, and citizenship, and in conceptualisations of, and questions about, political responsibility, social justice, political subjectivity, and ‘decolonising’ political theory.

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Lydia is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. She holds an MA in Human Rights (Law/Political Science) from the University of Manchester and a PhD in International Politics from Aberystwyth University. Her doctoral research focused on sexual and gender-based violence and post-conflict justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Exploring several key post-conflict frames – the legal, the psychological, and the testimonial – it examined the possibilities and limitations of recognition through such processes. Lydia has also been part of the commissioning team for Stitched Voices, a major art exhibition and associated event programme featuring global conflict and protest textiles. This ongoing project draws upon artistic, performative and practice-based research methodologies to explore knowledge production surrounding political violence. Lydia’s research spans several fields of inquiry including feminist theory, post-conflict and transitional justice, theories of recognition, and human rights.

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Alexandria researches the international politics of migration, with particular emphasis on non-state-based identities and everyday life. Theoretically, her research is situated at the intersection of migration studies and critical security studies in International Relations. She has published research in various academic outlets, including International Political Sociology, Security Dialogue, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Geopolitics and International Relations. She is the author of two monographs. The first Migration, Citizenship and the Challenge for Security (Palgrave, 2015) involved an ethnographic study of migrant journeys towards and through Europe, centring on the experiences of people who self-identified as asylum seekers. The second Postcolonial Citizenship and Transnational Identity (Routledge, 2020) drew on a life narrative memoir to explore the politics of citizenship, postcolonial identities and transnational family life. Alexandria has provided commentary and analysis of migration policy for the BBC World Service, US National Public Radio, and other media outlets.

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Rikard received his undergraduate degree in International Relations at the Peace and Development Research Institute of Goteborg University in his native country Sweden and an Erasmus exchange at Dublin City University followed up with an MA in IR from Goteborg University and an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies from Uppsala University before conducting his doctoral studies at the University of St Andrews. Rikard has been teaching at the School of IR since 2014. Rikard’s thesis focused on local conflicts and peace processes in the Philippines with particular reference to Mindanao and its problems with political dynasties manifested in family- and clan-based violence. He applied theoretical constructs used in the field of peace and conflict studies to understand better, and deal with, what is an under-examined conflict where much of the violence has been designated as terrorism. He receives regular invitations and to provide expert views in media outlets such as Al-Jazeera, Channel NewsAsia, SKY News, TRT World and tbs eFM Primetime.

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Christina Schori Liang is Head of Terrorism and PVE at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP). She leads multiple courses at the GCSP and contributes to GCSP’s Track Two diplomacy and dialogue events. Dr. Liang is an active member of the UN’s Global Counter Terrorism Research Network and advises the UN Security Council’s 1267 Committee on terrorist financing. Dr. Liang has testified for the US National Intelligence Council, the US State Department, the European Commission, and the European Forum for Urban Security, the NATO Defense College in Rome and the OSCE Secretariat in Vienna. Dr Liang is a member of the RESOLVE Network Research Advisory Council of the US Institute for Peace and a global expert for the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Dr. Liang is currently a Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po, Paris.

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Dr Fiona McCallum is a Lecturer in the School of International Relations at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. Her research expertise is Middle Eastern Christians especially state-church-societal relations, religious leadership and diaspora. She is the author of Christian Religious Leadership in the Middle East: The Political Role of the Patriarch (2010) and several articles on the political role of Christians in the Middle East including in Middle Eastern Studies, Journal of Religion and Europe and Third World Quarterly. From 2013-15, she was the Project Leader of the collaborative research project ‘Defining and Identifying Middle Eastern Christian Communities in Europe’ funded by Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA). She is also the co-founder of the Christians in the Middle East Research Network.

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