Expertise

Oxford Research Group staff are available to comment on current events and security issues or for interviews relating to ORG publications and projects.

Please contact us or email Vera Evertz, Head of Communications, for further information.

For specific areas of expertise and contact details of our regular media commentators, please see below.

Professor Susan Breau (Recording Casualties of Armed Conflict Legal Consultant)

Phone: +44 (0)20 7549 0298
Email: rcac@oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk
Expertise: Human Rights Law

  • The legality of drones
  • Recording civilian casualities of armed conflict
  • International Protection of Human Rights
  • Law of International Organisations

Professor Paul Rogers (Global Security Consultant)

Phone: +44 (0)20 7549 0298
Email: p.f.rogers@bradford.ac.uk
Expertise: Global security and defence issues

  • Nuclear issues
  • Terrorism and political violence
  • Sustainable security
  • Middle East
  • Energy security
  • Climate change and security

Gabrielle Rifkind (Middle East Programme Director)

Phone: +44 (0) 207 794 3728
Email: gabrielle.rifkind@oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk
Expertise: Middle East and conflict resolution

  • Talking to terrorist groups, e.g. the need to engage with Hamas
  • Iran and the Iranian mindset
  • The psychological aspects of peacemaking
  • Israel-Palestinian conflict and the regional implications
  • Syria and Israel relations

Professor John Sloboda (Recording Casualties in Armed Conflict Programme Director)

Phone: +44 (0)20 7549 0298
Email: john.sloboda@oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk
Expertise: The human cost of conflict

  • Iraqi casualties in the current conflict
  • Afghani casualties in the current conflict
  • The protection of civilians in conflict (and analysis of claims of governments to be doing this)
  • Civilian casualties in ongoing or breaking conflicts
  • Methodologies and policy implications for recording or estimating casualties and other effects of war
  • Truth and reconciliation processes

Dr Refqa Abu-Remaileh (Middle East Programme Manager)

Phone: +44 (0)207 794 3728

Email: refqa.abu-remaileh@oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk
Expertise: Middle East

  • Palestinian-Israeli conflict
  • Regional dynamics in the Middle East
  • Culture, identity and arts in the Middle East

Ben Zala (Sustainable Security Programme Manager)

Phone: +44 (0)20 7549 0298

Email: ben.zala@oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk
Expertise: Global security and defence issues

  • Nuclear weapons
  • Great power relations (eg. US-China, US-Russia)
  • Climate change and security
  • Resources and conflict
  • Marginalisation and security
  • Militarisation and weapons proliferation
  • Multilateralism and the UN

Hamit Dardagan (Civilian Casualties in War Consultant)

Phone: +44 (0)20 7549 0298
Email: hamit.dardagan@gmail.com
Expertise: The human cost of conflict

  • Civilian casualties in conflicts
  • Iraqi casualties in the current conflict
  • The protection of civilians in conflict (and analysis of claims of governments to be doing this)
  • Methodologies for recording or estimating casualties and other effects of war