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/
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
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)
