Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War

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The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War is a joint initiative of King's College London's School of Security Studies and the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab, funded by the Leverhulme Trust as one of three winners of its 2025 Leverhulme Research Centre competition. It runs from September 2025 to August 2035 with funding of around 10 million pounds, and is the first major initiative to systematically investigate the connections between slavery and armed conflict across history and into the future. Research is organised around four strands, reconceptualising, understanding, forecasting and tackling slavery in war, drawing on methods from history, law, political science, data science, earth observation and machine learning. A dedicated legal sub-project examines how litigation can address slavery in war through an intersectional, survivor-led lens, and the centre's governance includes a lived experience panel to ensure survivor input shapes its research and interventions.

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2025

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King's College London (KCL)
London

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Rights Lab

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Nottingham

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University of Nottingham