Hazel Cameron is a criminologist and a lecturer of Peace and Conflict Studies within the School of International Relations, University of St Andrews. She was awarded her PhD at the University of Liverpool in July 2010. Main research interests include state crime; global elite bystanders to crimes of the powerful; political violence; torture; genocide; war crimes; and crimes against humanity. Hazel has spent over a decade undertaking fieldwork in Rwanda. She is currently researching the rationale of UK and US foreign policy towards Zimbabwe during a period of extreme violence that took place in the Matabeleland region of the newly independent Zimbabwe. Between early 1983 and late 1984, between 10,000–20,000 people lost their lives. The murders were perpetrated by the state and carried out by the Fifth Brigade of the Zimbabwe National Army. Although widely reported at the time by the press, the international community largely ignored the massacres. These crimes against humanity, which also included torture, forced starvation, disappearances, displacements, and rape are commonly known as Gukurahundi. Hazel Cameron is co-editor of the journal Genocide Studies International and is affiliated with the International State Crime Initiative (ISCI) and the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research (SCCJR).
Rosa Freedman is the inaugural Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development at the University of Reading and is a Research Fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. Freedman has served as a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Civil Society Advisory Board on Prevention of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, a Specialist Adviser on safeguarding to the UK government International Development Committee, and currently sits on a UK FCDO Steering Committee.
Miles Howe is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University. He received his PhD in Cultural Studies from Queen’s University, in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Marat Iliyasov is a Chechen scholar specializing in Caucasus-related matters, which he analyzes using an interdisciplinary approach. His research encompasses questions related to authoritarianism and radicalization in the North Caucasus, as well as the dynamics of peace and conflicts in the post-Soviet space.
Dimitra Mareta is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She holds a PhD in Political Theory from the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Her research and teaching interests include political philosophy, state theory, conservatism, and antifeminist political theory.
Rachel Monaghan is a Professor of Peace and Conflict at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University. Her research interests are in the area of political violence.
Jade Moran is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University. Her teaching and research interests support activist and critical criminology, especially in relation to the North of Ireland, the politics of policing, violent and sexual offending, feminist criminology and the criminology of war.
Gabrielle Nugent-Stephens is a Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Applied Social and Policy Sciences, Ulster University. Gabrielle’s research interests include state crime, social harm, and security governance.
Gráinne Perkins, PhD in Criminology from the University of Cape Town, is an experienced international operational police officer and lecturer with a focus on community policing and international law enforcement. She has investigated serious offenses, including homicide and organized crime, and also holds Masters degrees from both Ulster University and Queen’s University Belfast. Perkins has lectured at various universities, including Seattle University, the University of Zurich, University of Cape Town, and University College Dublin with the Garda Síochána Police Training Academy. Her ethnographic doctoral research examined the risks faced by South African Police Service members, and she has written extensively on police health and wellness. Perkins recently received the 2024 Carolyn Rebecca Block Award for her outstanding contributions to understanding homicide and lethal violence. She currently serves as the Chief of Police and Vice President of Public Safety at the University of Southern Maine, USA.
Cydney Alison Sheridan, BCL MA, is an academic tutor and research assistant at Maynooth University.