Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC)

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The Conflict, Violence and Terrorism Research Centre (CVTRC) at Royal Holloway aims to carry out inter-disciplinary, and methodologically rigorous, research on conflict, violence and terrorism.

The CVTRC’s research focuses upon the act of violence itself; the motivations and rationale of violent actor(s); the contemporary and historical contexts in which violence takes place; violent spaces; the antecedents of violence; the social, political and other consequences of violence; representations of violence in news media, film, and literature; memories of violence and commemoration; and conflict resolution and peace-building efforts.

This inter-disciplinary approach is reflected in the academic backgrounds of the Centre Research Fellows who hail from a range of disciplines including History, Law, Terrorism Studies, Politics, International Relations, Economics, Geography, and Psychology. The principle aims of the centre include:

• To carry out innovative inter-disciplinary research on violence, conflict and terrorism.
• To host conferences, symposia, workshops and guest speaker events.
• To serve as a hub to attract grant funding.
• To provide an intellectual home to the growing cohort of PGT and PGR students studying conflict and terrorism. These include the newly launched MSc Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism (Law); new MA History: Histories of Conflict and Violence pathway (History); the MSc. in International Security (PIR), in addition to the numerous PhD and MRes students supervised on these topics across RHUL.
• To attract new cross-college PhD students.
• To serve as a hub for engaging with policymakers, practitioners, and publics.

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Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham