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- A Liberal Democrat member of the House of Lords since 1996. Currently a member of the Select Committee of the House on International Relations and Defence. A past 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 https://hmc.ox.ac.uk/
Honorary Fellow, Pembroke College, University of Oxford https://www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/
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- Research Affiliate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford
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- Research Associate, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford
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- 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
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- Founding Chairman, The Concord Foundation (Ireland) CLG.
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- Chairman Emeritus, Centre for Democracy and Peace Building (formerly the Founding Chairman and a Director) https://democracyandpeace.org
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- Chairman and Trustee, The Just Society Trust
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- President, Peru Support Group – https://perusupportgroup.org.uk
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- President and Trustee, The National Liberal Club https://nlc.org.uk/
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- Professor of Practice, Global Humanity for Peace Institute, University of Wales Trinity St David
- Professor of Practice, The Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, The Queen’s University of Belfast
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- Chairman of the Advisory Board of MENA 2050, a not-for-profit UK company working on social and economic cooperation in the Middle East and North Africa (from July 2023)