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Professor Richard Jackson is the Leading Thinker Chair in Peace Studies and Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) in the Division of Humanities at the University of Otago. He holds a PhD in Political Science and joined the University of Otago in 2012 after serving as Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University from 2007 to 2012. Previously, he was a lecturer in politics at the University of Manchester and held positions including Honourable Secretary of the British International Studies Association from 2009 to 2011 and convener of its Critical Studies on Terrorism Working Group. Jackson is the founding editor and current editor-in-chief of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism and series editor of the Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies book series.

His research specializations encompass pacifism and nonviolence, critical terrorism studies, the social construction of war and other forms of organized political violence, international conflict resolution, and political development in the African state. He teaches courses such as PEAC 507: Critical Terrorism Studies and INTS 509: Global Peace and Conflict, and supervises postgraduate research in pacifism, anarchism, nonviolent resistance movements, unarmed peacekeeping, civilian-based nonviolent national defence, critical peace research, and critical terrorism studies. Jackson has authored and edited 15 books and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. Major publications include Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counterterrorism (Manchester University Press, 2005), Terrorism: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, co-authored with Marie Breen Smyth, Jeroen Gunning, and Lee Jarvis), Confessions of a Terrorist (Zed Books, 2014), The Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies (Routledge, 2016), Contemporary Debates in Terrorism (2nd edition, Routledge, 2018, co-edited with Daniela Pisoiu), Critical Terrorism Studies at Ten: Contributions, Cases and Future Challenges (Routledge, 2019), and Revolutionary Nonviolence: Concepts, Cases and Controversies (Zed Books, 2020, co-edited). He contributes regularly to media on topics including war, terrorism, security, and peace.