After completing his DPhil, Harun worked as a research fellow at Harvard University. He was also a British Academy research fellow and lectured at the University of London. Harun is a regional expert on IR, history, national, identities, and political propaganda. His books and academic articles cover Ukraine, Central Asia, and the Caucasus – he has worked on these areas for long periods.

Nick specialises in the causes, character and consequences of armed conflict and political violence. His DPhil focused on the Caucasus and the Balkans, with international fieldwork in challenging post-conflict environments. During this time he held visiting positions at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Yale University, and the Caucasus Research Resource Centre in Tbilisi. Nick’s wider interests encompass international security, conflict management and peace processes, qualitative research methods – in particular case study methods and field research in conflict-affected areas – and research ethics.

Guy specialises in middle eastern studies and migration, so far focussing on forced migration in the Middle East and the Israel-Palestinian conflict. A subject within which there is a considerable deal of misinformation, disagreement and salient prejudice, Guy aims to understand it as much as he can and use it to help people. He’s also multilingual and has completed an internship involving translation and editing.

Yaqoob is a historian of Modern South Asia. His current research interests are in the emergence of Pakistan as a post-colonial state, with broader interests in decolonization, modern state formation, formation of identities, and the emergence of ethnic and identity-based conflicts. His DPhil was on the accession and integration of the princely states in Pakistan, which has been published by Oxford University Press as A Princely Affair: Accession and Integration of Princely States in Pakistan, 1947-55. He is currently working on a monograph on the imagination of Pakistan as a country after its creation, using the debates of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan (1947-56) as the primary material.