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Professor Jason Ralph (ECR2P Co-Director, Professor in International Relations - POLIS)

Dr Cristina Stefan (formerly Badescu) (ECR2P Co-Director, Lecturer in International Relations - POLIS)

Professor Enzo Maria Le Fevre Cervini  (ECR2P Policy Engagement Director, Director for Research and Cooperation – Budapest Centre for Mass Atrocity Prevention)

Enzo is an international law scholar working on the intersection of international relations and human security issues. He is currently a contracted professor in International Law and Diplomacy at LUISS University in Rome and research fellow at the Department of Law of Roma Tre University. Since 2013 he co-chairs the World Bank’s Community of Practice on “Mass Atrocities Prevention” and is an active member of the World Bank’s Community of Practice on the “Legal Aspects of Forced Displacement” in the framework of the Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development. Between 2008 and 2011 he has been Special Advisor of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with the task of coordinating the creation and development of the Foundation for the International Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities. This followed his work as Coordinator of the European Programme for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities at the Madariaga-College of Europe Foundation: which, at the invitation of Javier Solana, was established to set up a coordinated strategy allowing the EU to be an effective global actor in the prevention of mass atrocities. Between 2006 and 2010 he has worked as an Associate Researcher at the Center for International Conflict Resolution – Columbia University, also working on the “Engaging Governments in Genocide Prevention” project. His PhD, obtained at the Doctoral School of Political Sciences of the University of Roma Tre (Italy), focused on “Sovereignty as responsibility and the nexus with the concept of human security”. His main research activities regard international law and international relations, migration issues and sustainable development of fragile states, conflict transformation and mass atrocities prevention.

Dr Eamon Aloyo (ECR2P Policy Engagement Director, Senior Researcher – The Hague Institute)

 Eamon is a political scientist working on policy relevant topics at the intersection of political theory and international relations. His interests include the responsibility to protect (R2P), just war theory, global justice, and related issues. He has published in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Ethics and International Affairs, Global Constitutionalism, Global Society, and International Theory. In December 2011, Dr. Aloyo received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he was awarded one of its highest honors, the Thomas Jefferson Award. He is the sole P. I. on a 2016 Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) grant on mass atrocity prevention in collaboration with partners. Northwestern University and George Washington University have provided him scholarships. He is additionally a senior analyst in the global justice section at the Global Governance Institute, a senior fellow at the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, and serves as a board member for International Peace Initiatives, an NGO based in Kenya.

Professor Edward Newman (Professor of International Security - POLIS)

Associate Professor Adrian Gallagher (Associate Professor in International Security - POLIS)

Adrian gained an ESRC funded Ph.D Genocide and Its Threat to International Order from the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, 2011. Since then he has published 1 monograph, 8 journal articles, 1 book chapter and Guest Edited two Special Issue journals on the subject of mass violence. He was the founder of the British International Studies Working Group on Intervention and The Responsibility to Protect @IR2PWG. He also provides professional service to the Government through oral and written evidence on the crises in Syria, Iraq and Libya. For more details

Dr James Souter (Lecturer in International Relations - POLIS)

James' work engages with both contemporary political theory and normative international relations, and addresses ethical questions surrounding asylum, migration, and the responsibility to protect. Since 2014, he has contributed to a project entitled ‘The Responsibility to Protect in the Context of the Continuing “War on Terror”: A Study of Liberal Interventionism and the Syrian Crisis’ with Jason Ralph, Rachel Utley and Derek Edyvane, funded by Research Councils UK, and with outputs appearing in International Affairs, the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, and forthcoming in Ethics and International Affairs. Before coming to Leeds, James completed a DPhil entitled ‘Asylum as Reparation’ at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford.

Dr Eglantine Staunton (Research Fellow - POLIS)

Eglantine's research interests lie broadly in human protection (in particular, humanitarian intervention and the responsibility to protect), France's foreign policy, the EU’s approach to human protection, and International Relations theory (she is particularly interested in constructivism and the study of the interplay between domestic and international norms). Before coming to Leeds, she completed her PhD at the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protected based at the University of Queensland in 2016, where she remains an Honorary Research Fellow. Before her PhD, she undertook a MA in International Studies (Peace and Conflict Resolution) at the University of Queensland, after graduating from Sciences Po in France.

Dr Gyorgy Tatar

​Tessa Alleblas (Researcher - The Hague Institute)

Tessa has extensive knowledge of international criminal law, genocide and mass atrocity prevention and response, human rights, and the role of the private sector in mass atrocity prevention. Alleblas has experience with the workings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Her expertise also extends to the principle of responsibility to protect and issues of rule of law in Kenya. Tessa Alleblas holds a bachelor’s degree in International and European Public Law from Tilburg University. In 2010, she graduated cum laude from Tilburg University with a master’s degree in International and European Public Law and a focus on human rights. As part of her studies, she spent a semester at North-West University in Potchefstroom, South Africa. During her second master’s degree, Tessa specialized in international criminal law at the University of Amsterdam and Columbia University in New York. Next to her studies, Tessa assisted the Karadzic defence team with the evaluation of evidence at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and worked as an intern assisting the UNHCR’s Head of Office in The Hague with refugee protection matters.