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- A Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords since 1996. Recently Deputy Chairman of Committees, and a member of the COVID Committee of the House. Formerly Convenor of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords
- Senior Research Fellow, Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford http://www.hmc.ox.ac.uk/
- Director, Centre for the Resolution of Intractable Conflict (CRIC), Oxford http://cric-oxford.org/
- Executive Chairman, Changing Character of War Centre and CCW Academic Board, Pembroke College, University of Oxford The Changing Character of War Centre (ox.ac.uk)
- Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
- Research Associate, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
- President, ARTIS (Europe) Ltd (research, teaching and intervention support, especially in the psychology of terrorism, political violence and other major psychosocial phenomena) https://www.artiseurope.com
- Founding Chairman, The Concord Foundation (Ireland) CLG.
- Chairman Emeritus, Centre for Democracy and Peace Building (formerly the Founding Chairman and a Director) https://democracyandpeace.org
- Director and Vice President, International Dialogue Initiative (USA) https://www.internationaldialogueinitiative.com/
- President, Peru Support Group – Peru Support Group
- Trustee (formerly Chairman of Board of Trustees), National Liberal Club https://nlc.org.uk/
- Retired NHS Consultant Psychiatrist and Senior Lecturer at The Queen’s University of Belfast. Also until recently a Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Maryland, Baltimore (USA)
- President, Westminster Pastoral Foundation
- Trustee, Methuen Trust, Corsham
- Trustee, Liberal Party Supplementary Pension Fund
