Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council
The Ideas and Beliefs Leadership Fellows were appointed to explore how individuals, communities and nation states form their ideas and beliefs about security and insecurity.
The Fellowship will also explore why some ideas and beliefs can lead to conflict, violence or criminal activity and how language, images and symbolism are used to change how risks and threats are communicated to, and perceived by, different groups.
Research Grants
- Global Uncertainties and Support for Islamic Militancy – Female Madrasas in Pakistan
Dr Masooda Bano – University of Oxford - Living with Uncertainty: Metaphor and the Dynamics of Empathy in Discourse
Professor Lynne Cameron – Open University - Constantine’s Dream: Belonging, Deviance and the Problem of Violence in Early Christianity
Dr Kate Cooper – University of Manchester - Narratives of Insecurity, Democratisation and the Justification of (mass) Violence
Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi – University of Westminster - Organisations, Innovation and Security in the 21st Century
Professor Theo Farrell – King’s College London - Strategic Scripts for the 21st Century
Professor Lawrence Freedman – King’s College London - Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought
Professor Robert Gleave – University of Exeter - The Securitisation of Forced Migration: Changing Ideas and Beliefs about Displacement and their Impact on Security
Dr Anne Hammerstad – University of Kent - Mercenary Masculinities’ Imagine Security: The Case of the Private Military Contractor
Dr Paul Higate – University of Bristol - Global Uncertainties: Security in an Africa of Networked, Multi-level Governance
Professor David Leonard – Institute of Development Studies - Law, Terrorism, and the Right to Know
Dr Lawrence McNamara – University of Reading - Radical Distrust, a Cultural Analysis of the Emotional, Psychological and Linguistic Formations of Religious and Political Extremism
Dr Caroline Rooney – University of Kent - The Challenges to Trust-building in Nuclear Worlds
Professor Nicholas Wheeler – Aberystwyth University - Protestant-Catholic Conflict: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Realities
Professor John Wolffe – Open University
For further information please contact enquiries@paccsresearch.org.uk
