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Conflict processes; social mobilisation and contentious politics; regime change and democratisation; state formation, failure, and reconstruction; transitional justice and collective remembrance; peacemaking and peacekeeping; peace studies.

John Gledhill

Associate Professor of Global Governance

John Gledhill is Associate Professor of Global Governance in Oxford's Department of International Development, and a Fellow of St Cross College.

Before coming to Oxford in 2011, he was an LSE Fellow in Global Politics at the London School of Economics, and he has previously taught at Georgetown and George Washington universities.

In his research, writing, and teaching, John investigates diverse themes of peace and conflict, including peacekeeping and peacebuilding, conflict processes, state formation and dissolution, nonviolent resistance, and (transnational) social mobilisation.

His recent academic writings have appeared in journals such as the European Journal of International RelationsInternational PeacekeepingOxford Development Studies, and the Journal of Global Security Studies.

At ODID, John teaches on the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy. In 2013, he received a Teaching Excellence Award for his work at the University of Oxford, and he had previously received the same award for his teaching at the London School of Economics. 

Outside of ODID, he is a member of the Steering Committee of OxPeace, which is a group that brings together scholars and practitioners around Oxford who are committed to promoting the study of peace, peacemaking, peacebuilding, and peacekeeping. He sits on the Governing Council of the Conflict Research Society, is a (Visiting) Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (University of Queensland), and was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at the University of Sydney in 2019.

He holds a PhD in Government from Georgetown University, and he received the University Gold Medal for his undergraduate work at Trinity College, Dublin.

John coordinates the foundation course in Global Governance for the MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy. He also offers optional courses on Peacebuilding & Statebuilding and, from 2016-17, Non-Violent Protest Movements.

  • Chapters

    Gledhill, John
    Richard Caplan and Maline Meiske ( ) Peacekeeping Operations: The Endgame . In Han Dorussen Handbook on Peacekeeping and International Relations , Edward Elgar
    Gledhill, John
    Ariel I Ahram ( ) Exiles and Political Islam: Contrasting Khomeini’s Religious Nationalism with bin Laden’s Violent Globalism . In David Malet, Miriam J Anderson Transnational Actors in War and Peace: Militants, Activists, and Corporations in World Politics , Washington DC: Georgetown University Press
    Gledhill, John
    ( ) European Integration and Confrontations with the Communist Past . In Denisa Kostovicova Transitional Justice in Post-Yugoslav States: Political Will and Public Support for the RECOM Process , Belgrade: Humanitarian Law Center
  • Encyclopedia entries

    Gledhill, John
    ( ) [The] European Union . In Lavinia Stan, Nadya Nedelsky Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice , New York: Cambridge University Press
    Gledhill, John
    Nadya Nedelsky ( ) [The] European Court of Human Rights . In Lavinia Stan, Nadya Nedelsky Encyclopedia of Transitional Justice , New York: Cambridge University Press
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