Alison Brettle

Alison Brettle is a Lecturer at King’s College London, holding a Joint Appointment with the Defence Studies Department and the Department of War Studies. She is an Academic Tutor at the Royal College of Defence Studies and is also a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) . Her research examines war- to-peace transitions in fragile and conflict affected areas with a specific focus on violent state and non-state armed groups. She is particularly interested in the role leadership and relationships play in helping individuals and groups move away from conflict towards peace. 

Alison holds a PhD in War Studies from KCL, an MA in Applied Conflict Resolution from Bradford University’s Peace Studies Department, an MA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Staffordshire, and a BA Hons in History from the University of Durham. She was previously a visiting researcher at the Centre for Experimental Social Science at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. 

Alison Brettle is the Research Lead on Armed Actors for XCEPT.

Alison no longer works on the XCEPT programme.