Dr Helen Dexter

I joined the University of Leicester in 2011. I am an Associate Professor of International Politics in the School of History, Politics and International Relations (HyPIR). Before joining the University of Leicester I was a Lecturer in International Relations at The University of Manchester, Teaching Fellow in International Politics at Keele University, and Lecturer in Security Studies at the University of Salford. 

I am passionate about education which prioritises equality inclusion and compassion. I facilitate Sanctuary Scholarships for HyPIR's distance learning programme which are open to anyone who has been forcibly displaced from their home. For more information see https://le.ac.uk/politics/study/distance-learning/sanctuary-scholarship.

I am on the Editorial Board of the new Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence.

(2019) 'Pacifism and the problem of protecting others' International Politics 56, pp. 243-258. 
 
(2018) 'Peace and Violence' in Paul D. Rogers and Matt McDonald (eds) Security Studies: An Introduction (London: Routledge.)
 
(2017) with Mark Phythian and David Strachan-Morris 'The What, Why, Who and How of Teaching Intelligence: the Leicester Approach' Intelligence and National Security, pp.1-15. 
 
(2016) 'I ain't got no problem with the Vietcong: War, ethics and the individual', in Jonna Nyman and Anthony Burke, Ethical Security Studies: A New Research Agenda, London: Routledge. 
 
(2015) co-authored with Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet, 'Teaching (Something About) Terrorism: Ethical and Methodological Problems, Pedagogical Suggestions'. International Studies Perspectives, vol.15, Issue 4, pp374-393.
 
(2014) co-authored with Richard Jackson, 'The Social Construction of Organised Political Violence: An Analytical Framework' Civil Wars Vol. 16 No. 1, pp. 1-23
 
(2013) co-edited with David Miller, Jesse Blackbourn and Rani Dhanda, Critical Terrorism Studies Since 11 September 2001: what has been learned? London, New York: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415838528/
 
(2012) 'Terrorism and Violence: another violence is possible?' Critical Studies on Terrorism Vol.5 No.1 April, pp. 119-135.

(2008) 'The 'New War' on Terror, Cosmopolitanism and the Just War Revival' Government and Opposition Winter 2008 Volume 43, Issue 1, pp. 55-78.

(2007) 'New War, Good War and the War on Terror: Explaining, Excusing and Creating Western Neo-interventionism'  Development and Change November 2007, Volume 38, Issues 6, pp. 1055-1071. 

Theories of violence and nonviolence

Peace and pacifism

Nonviolent action/civil resistance

Cosmopolitanism

Feminist theories of peace and violence

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