Expert Directory


The PCS-Network hosts over a hundred academic experts. There are various search options related to their expertise and affiliations. This is structured in: Categories – Subcategories – Tags.

Each expert has provided keywords about their work. These keywords are included as Tags, accompanying their names, and home webpages. The Tags are clustered thematically in four categories with several sub-categories.

Category 1: SOCIETAL DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICT, SECURITY AND PEACE

This relates to the following sub-categories (alphabetical):

  • Civil-Military relations – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: security sector reform (SSR); police-military; child soldiers; strategic culture
  • Ethics
  • Identity– this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: gender; diversity; minorities; sexual violence
  • Governance – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: global governance; global justice; globalisation; democracy; NGOs; IGOs; multilevel governance (MLG)
  • Human Rights – this collective term includes Tags also related to: citizenship; refugees; migration
  • Media – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: visual politics; popular culture
  • Organized crime – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: illicit trade
  • Political violence – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: intergroup conflicts; military security; just war theory; terrorism; torture; sanctions
  • Postcolonialism – this collective term includes Tags also related to: decolonialism
  • Reconstruction – this collective term includes Tags also related to: conflict management; (peace) education; development; peace operations; resilience
  • Religion
  • Security – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: human security; climate security; environmental security; resource security; urban security; health security
  • Technology – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: Artificial Intelligence (AI); nuclear weapons; cyberspace; cyber security
  • Transitional justice

Category 2: SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICT, SECURITY AND PEACE

This refers to geopolitics, world regions, sub-regions and country-specific expertise. So far we have identified experts in the following areas (in alphabetical order):

  • Africa
  • Arctic
  • Asia – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: East Asia; South-East Asia; South Asia; Caucasus
  • Europe – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: Russian Federation; Turkey; Ukraine
  • Geopolitics
  • Latin America
  • Middle East

Category 3: AFFILIATIONS

This refers to the organizations where the experts are located (mainly universities). So far we have identified experts at the following institutions (in alphabetical order):

  • Eramus University Rotterdamn (EUR)
  • Leiden University (LU) – including Tags for Dutch Peacekeeping Network
  • Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA)
  • Radbound University (RU) – including Tags for Centre for International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM)
  • University of Amsterdam (UvA)
  • University of Applied Sciences Stenden (NHL Stenden)
  • University of Groningen (UG) – including Tags for Centre for Religion, Conflict and Globalization
  • University of Twente (UT)
  • Utrecht University (UU)
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) – including Tags for Peace and Conflict Studies Centre (PACS)

Category 4: ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE

Although most research in PCS has interdisciplinary characteristics, most experts identify themselves with specific academic disciplines or dominant schools within them. So far we have identified experts in the following fields (in alphabetical order):

  • Criminology
  • Diplomatic Studies
  • History
  • International Relations (IR) Theory – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: Political Science; International Political Economy (IPE); International Political Sociology (IPS); Public Administration
  • Law – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: European Law; International Law; Humanitarian Law; Justice
  • Peace Research / Conflict Studies
  • Psychology; communication studies
  • Security Studies – this is a collective term for research also related to the Tags: Biopolitics of Security; Critical Security Studies; Strategic Studies
  • Sociology