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Conflict Research Group


Examining the causes and dynamics of violent conflict

Research Pillar(s): Conflict

The Conflict Research Group (CRG) is a multi-disciplinary research and consultancy unit. Its members include leading experts in conflict-related research from five of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳'s academic departments, including Government, International Relations, Sociology, the Methodology Institute, and the European Institute.

The CRG provides expertise on the causes and dynamics of violent conflict, and the policy responses to it, whether in democratic or authoritarian states.

Our activities are supported by the .

Please contact gov.comms@lse.ac.uk to be added to the mailing list.

Members: Prof Steffen Hertog, Prof James Hughes, Dr Ryan Jablonski, Dr Bill Kissane

Events

2011 Summer of Disorder: reading the English riots ten years after 

Tuesday 30 March 2021
Speaker: Tim Newburn, Professor of Criminology and Social Policy 
Chair: John Sidel, Sir Patrick Gillam Chair in International and Comparative Politics

This online event was live streamed on the .


How much danger is American democracy in?

Thursday 11 February 2021
Speaker: Brian Klaas, Associate Professor of Global Politics, UCL
Chair: Bill Kissane, Associate Professor (Reader) in Politics, Department of Government, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


New insights on where and why journalists are killed outside major wars

Thursday 16 November 2017
Speaker: Sabine Carey, Professor of Political Science, University of Mannheim
Chair: Dr Livia Schubiger, Assistant professor in Comparative Politics, Department of Government, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳


Nations Torn Asunder

Thursday 23 February 2017
Speakers: Dr Bill Kissane (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Government) and Anthony Loyd (Journalist)
Chair: Dr Denisa Kostovicova


Thursday 19 May 2016
Speaker: Prof. Stathis N. Kalyvas, Yale
Chair:
Dr Kieran Mitton, Department of War Studies, KCL


Thursday 19 May 2016
Speaker: Prof. Elisabeth Jean Wood, Yale
Discussant: Dr Kieran Mitton, Department of War Studies, KCL
Chair: Dr des. Livia Schubiger, Department of Government, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳