Professor Richard Jackson, Our People, National Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand

Contact

Email richard.jackson@otago.ac.nz
Tel +64 3 471 6461

Teaching

PEAC 507 Critical Terrorism Studies
INTS 509 Global Peace and Conflict

Supervision

Professor Jackson is interested in supervising students with projects in the following areas:

pacifism, anarchism and nonviolent politics
civilian-based nonviolent national defence
nonviolent resistance movements
unarmed peacekeeping and civilian protection
critical peace research
critical terrorism studies

Research

Professor Jackson's areas of research expertise and writing for publication include:

Pacifism and nonviolence
critical terrorism studies
the social construction of war and other forms of organised political violence
international conflict resolution
political development in the African state

Professor Richard Jackson is the Leading Thinker Chair in Peace Studies at the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS). He is the founding editor and current editor-in-chief of the journal Critical Studies on Terrorism, and the series editor of the Routledge Critical Terrorism Studies book series.

He is the author and editor of 15 books and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. Some of his recent books include: Revolutionary Nonviolence: Concepts, Cases and Controversies (Zed, 2020; co-edited with Joseph Llewellyn, Griffin Leonard, Aidan Gnoth and Tonga Karena); Encountering extremism: Theoretical issues and local challenges (Manchester University Press, 2020; co-edited with Alice Martini and Kieran Ford); Critical Terrorism Studies at Ten: Contributions, Cases and Future Challenges (Routledge, 2019; co-edited with Harmonie Toros, Lee Jarvis, Lee, and Charlotte Heath-Kelly); Contemporary Debates in Terrorism (2nd edition, Routledge, 2018; co-edited with Daniela Pisiou); The Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies (Routledge, 2016) ; and Terrorism: A Critical Introduction (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011; co-authored with Marie Breen Smyth, Jeroen Gunning and Lee Jarvis). His most widely cited book is Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counterterrorism (Manchester University Press, 2005). He is also the author of a novel entitled Confessions of a Terrorist (Zed, 2014).

He appears regularly in the media, and writes about these issues on his blog:

https://richardjacksonterrorismblog.wordpress.com

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Publications

Jackson, R. (2021). Pacifism and peace. In O. Richmond & G. Visoka (Eds.), The Palgrave enclyclopedia of peace and conflict studies. (Online ed.) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-11795-5_72-1

Jackson, R. (2021). The revolutionary potential of pacifism [Interview]. In B. Evans & A. Parr (Eds.), Conversations on violence: An anthology. (pp. 233-242). London, UK: Pluto Press. [Contribution].

Jackson, R., Llewellyn, J., Leonard, G. M., Gnoth, A., & Karena, T. (Eds.). (2020). Revolutionary nonviolence: Concepts, cases and controversies. London, UK: Zed Books, 248p.

Martini, A., Ford, K., & Jackson, R. (Eds.). (2020). Encountering extremism: Theoretical issues and local challenges. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 328p. doi: 10.7765/9781526136619

Jackson, R. (2020). A defence of revolutionary nonviolence. In R. Jackson, J. Llewellyn, G. Leonard, A. Gnoth & T. Karena (Eds.), Revolutionary nonviolence: Concepts, cases and controversies. (pp. 18-41). London, UK: Zed Books.

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Jackson, R., Llewellyn, J., Leonard, G. M., Gnoth, A., & Karena, T. (Eds.). (2020). Revolutionary nonviolence: Concepts, cases and controversies. London, UK: Zed Books, 248p.

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Martini, A., Ford, K., & Jackson, R. (Eds.). (2020). Encountering extremism: Theoretical issues and local challenges. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 328p. doi: 10.7765/9781526136619

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Jackson, R. (2020). A pacifist critique of just war theory. In L. Cordeiro-Rodrigues & D. Singh (Eds.), Comparative just war theory: An introduction to international perspectives. (pp. 45-59). Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

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Jackson, R. (2019). Pacifism and the ethical imagination in IR. International Politics, 56(2), 212-227. doi: 10.1057/s41311-017-0137-6

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Llewellyn, J., Leonard, G., & Jackson, R. (2019). Meeting New Zealand’s peace and security challenges through disarmament and nonviolence. In A.-M. Brady (Ed.), Small states and the changing global order: New Zealand faces the future. (pp. 345-361). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18803-0_20

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Jackson, R., Toros, H., Jarvis, L., & Heath-Kelly, C. (Eds.). (2019). Critical terrorism studies at ten: Contributions, cases and future challenges. London, UK: Routledge, 194p.

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Jackson, R. (2019). CTS, counterterrorism and non-violence. In R. Jackson, H. Toros, L. Jarvis & C. Heath-Kelly (Eds.), Critical terrorism studies at ten: Contributions, cases and future challenges. (pp. 161-173). London, UK: Routledge.

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Jackson, R. (2019). Revising the field of terrorism. In E. Chenoweth, R. English, A. Gofas & S. N. Kalyvas (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Terrorism. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732914.013.43

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Jackson, R. (2018). Post-liberal peacebuilding and the pacifist state. Peacebuilding, 6(1), 1-16. doi: 10.1080/21647259.2017.1303871

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Jackson, R. (2018). Pacifism: The anatomy of a subjugated knowledge. Critical Studies on Security, 6(2), 160-175. doi: 10.1080/21624887.2017.1342750

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Jackson, R., & Pisoiu, D. (Eds.). (2018). Contemporary debates on terrorism (2nd ed.). Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 292p.

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Jackson, R. (2018). Sympathy for the devil: Evil, taboo, and the terrorist figure in literature. In P. C. Herman (Ed.), Terrorism and literature. (pp. 377-394). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

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Jackson, R. (2017). CTS, counterterrorism and non-violence. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 10(2), 357-369. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2017.1334851

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Jackson, R. (Ed.). (2016). Routledge handbook of critical terrorism studies. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 311p.

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Jackson, R., & Hall, G. (2016). Talking about terrorism: A study of vernacular discourse. Politics, 36(3), 292-307. doi: 10.1177/0263395715610791

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Jackson, R. (2016). To be or not to be policy relevant? Power, emancipation and resistance in CTS research. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 9(1), 120-125. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2016.1147771

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Jackson, R. (2016). Critical discourse analysis. In P. Dixit & J. L. Stump (Eds.), Critical methods in terrorism studies. (pp. 77-90). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Jackson, R. (2015). The epistemological crisis of counterterrorism. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 8(1), 33-54. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2015.1009762

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Jackson, R. (2015). How resistance can save peace studies. Journal of Resistance Studies, 1(1), 18-49.

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Jackson, R. (2015). Terrorism, taboo, and discursive resistance: The agonistic potential of the terrorism novel. International Studies Review, 17, 396-413. doi: 10.1111/misr.12227

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Jackson, R. (2015). On how to be a collective intellectual: Critical terrorism studies and the countering of hegemonic discourse. In T. V. Berling & C. Bueger (Eds.), Security expertise: Practice, power, responsibility. (pp. 186-203). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Jackson, R. (2015). Towards critical peace research: Lessons from critical terrorism studies. In I. Tellidis & H. Toros (Eds.), Researching terrorism, peace and conflict studies: Interaction, synthesis, and opposition. (pp. 19-37). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Jackson, R., & Dexter, H. (2014). The social construction of organised political violence: An analytical framework. Civil Wars, 16(1), 1-23. doi: 10.1080/13698249.2014.904982

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Jackson, R. (2014). Bringing pacifism back into international relations. Social Alternatives, 33(4), 63-66.

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Jackson, R. (2015). Bin Laden's ghost and the epistemological crises of counterterrorism. In S. Jeffords & F. Al-Sumait (Eds.), Covering bin Laden: Global media and the world's most wanted man. (pp. 3-19). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.

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Jackson, R. (2015). Discursive peacebuilding and conflict transformation after separatist wars: A radical proposition. In D. Kingsbury & C. Laoutides (Eds.), Territorial separatism in global politics: Causes, outcomes and resolution. (pp. 74-89). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Jackson, R. (2014). Critical perspectives. In E. Newman & K. DeRouen (Eds.), Routledge handbook of civil wars. (pp. 79-90). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Jackson, R. (2014). Confessions of a terrorist. London: Zed Books. [Novel].

Creative Work

Jackson, R. (2014). Bush, Obama, Bush, Obama, Bush, Obama...: The war on terror as social structure. In M. Bentley & J. Holland (Eds.), Obama's foreign policy: Ending the war on terror. (pp. 76-90). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Jackson, R., & McDonald, M. (2014). Constructivism, US foreign policy, and counterterrorism. In I. Parmar, L. B. Miller & M. Ledwidge (Eds.), Obama and the world: New directions in US foreign policy. (2nd ed.) (pp. 15-28). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.

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Jackson, R. (2013). The politics of terrorism fears. In S. J. Sinclair & D. Antonius (Eds.), The political psychology of terrorism fears. (pp. 267-282). Oxford University Press.

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Jackson, R. (2013). Terrorism studies and academia. In R. van Zwanenberg & D. Shulman (Eds.), Weapon of the strong: Conversations on US state terrorism: Interviews by Cihan Aksan and Jon Bailes. (pp. 118-131). London: Pluto Press.

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Jackson, R. (2012). Unknown knowns: The subjugated knowledge of terrorism studies. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 5(1), 11-29. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2012.659907

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Jackson, R. (2012). The study of terrorism 10 years after 9/11: Successes, issues, challenges. Uluslararasi Iliskiler / International Relations, 8(32), 1-16.

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Jackson, R., & Sinclair, S. J. (Eds.). (2012). Contemporary debates on terrorism. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 240p.

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Jackson, R., Jarvis, L., Gunning, J., & Breen Smyth, M. (2011). Terrorism: A critical introduction. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 332p.

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Gunning, J., & Jackson, R. (2011). What's so 'religious' about 'religious terrorism'? Critical Studies on Terrorism, 4(3), 369-388. doi: 10.1080/17539153.2011.623405

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Jackson, R. (2011). Culture, identity and hegemony: Continuity and (the lack of) change in US counterterrorism policy from Bush to Obama. International Politics, 48(2-3), 390-411. doi: 10.1057/ip.2011.5

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Jackson, R. (2011). In defence of 'terrorism': Finding a way through a forest of misconceptions. Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism & Political Aggression, 3(2), 116-130. doi: 10.1080/19434472.2010.512148

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Jackson, R., Murphy, E., & Poynting, S. (Eds.). (2010). Contemporary state terrorism: Theory and practice. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 242p.

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Jackson, R. (2010). Regime security. In A. Collins (Ed.), Contemporary security studies. (2nd ed.) (pp. 185-201). Oxford University Press.

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Jackson, R. (2009). The study of terrorism after 11 September 2001: Problems, challenges and future developments. Political Studies Review, 7(2), 171-184. doi: 10.1111/j.1478-9299.2009.00177.x

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Bercovitch, J., & Jackson, R. (2009). Conflict resolution in the twenty-first century: Principles, methods, and approaches. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 226p.

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Jackson, R., Breen Smyth, M., & Gunning, J. (Eds.). (2009). Critical terrorism studies: A new research agenda. Abingdon, OX: Routledge, 274p.

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Jackson, R. (2008). The ghosts of state terror: Knowledge, politics and terrorism studies. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 1(3), 377-392. doi: 10.1080/17539150802515046

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Jackson, R. (2009). Conflict resolution in Africa: A comparative empirical analysis. In M. Meyer & E. Ndura-Ouédraogo (Eds.), Seeds of new hope: Pan-African peace studies for the 21st century. (pp. 229-248). Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press.

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Jackson, R. (2009). Constructivism and conflict resolution. In J. Bercovitch, V. Kremenyuk & I. W. Zartman (Eds.), The SAGE handbook of conflict resolution. (pp. 172-189). London: SAGE.

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