Research interests

Chris is a PhD candidate at King’s College London. He is researching how the Taliban live with the psychosocial impact of violence they perpetrate and endure. In 2023, Chris was awarded a two-year LISS DTP studentship for this work. His primary supervisor is Dr. Kieran Mitton. His secondary supervisor is Dr. Eleonora Natale. As well as studying at King’s, Chris is an experienced graduate teaching assistant who has run seminars for undergraduate International Relations and War Studies students in three modules: the Global Experience of War, Conflict and Diplomacy and War, Crisis and Political Communication.

Qualifications

Chris graduated with distinction from the War Studies department of King’s in 2022. He was awarded a high distinction for his dissertation ‘Did insurgencies become more barbaric after 9/11?’ and distinctions in each of his modules: The Theory and Practice of War; Transitional Justice and International Criminal Law; Conflict, Rights and Justice; Approaches to Understanding Violence and Atrocity in Civil Wars; Small Wars, Anti-Colonial Resistance and the Unmaking of the Modern Global Order.  In 2025 he was awarded a Higher Education Associate Fellowship.

Editing and memberships

Chris is a member the Conflict Research Society, the Perpetrator Studies Network, and the European International Studies Association. He previously served as an editorial board member for Genocide Studies and Prevention - an International Journal, where he sub-edited Vol. 16.3 (2023); Vol 17.1 (2023); Vol 17.2 (2023); Vol 17.3 (2023); Vol 18.2 (2023); Vol. 18.3 (2024).