Mandy Turner

Mandy Turner "is a lecturer in conflict resolution. Previous to joining the Department she was a Teaching Fellow at University College London and before that she was a journalist with The Guardian newspaper in London. Her research interests lie in peacekeeping and peacebuilding, statebuilding, post-conflict reconstruction, and the Israel/Palestine conflict.

"Mandy teaches on the MA and BA modules 'Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding' and the MA module 'Introduction to Conflict Resolution'. Mandy also teaches on the Chevening Fellowship 'Peacekeeping and International Capacity Building' and Ministry of Defence training courses for the department."

• Assistant editor of International Peacekeeping
• Trustee of the charity, Trust for Research and Education on the Arms Trade (TREAT).
• Project manager and researcher for the 'Armed Violence and Poverty Initiative', a 14-month study for the UK Government's Department for International Development (January 2004 to April 2005). I collaborated with Professor Lionel Cliffe and Dr Jeremy Ginifer on this project which studied 13 case study countries on the long-, medium- and short-term impacts of conflict.

Books

• Whose Peace?: Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding (co-editor with Michael Pugh and Neil Cooper), Palgrave, 2008.