Dr Anastasia Filippidou
Lecturer
Location: Shrivenham campus
E: afilippidou.cu@da.mod.uk
T: +44 (0)1793 78 5022
Department of Management and Security
Current activities
Key Research Areas
Conflict analysis and resolution; psychology of war and peace; the role of leadership in conflicts and their resolution; negotiation theories and tactics; ending of terrorist campaigns; lesson identification, learning and transmission.
Background
Dr Filippidou is a lecturer at the Security Studies Institute, Department of Management and Security, Cranfield University. She holds degrees in International Relations, Political Economy, Journalism, Academic Practice and e-teaching. Her field of expertise is conflict termination and conflict resolution processes; negotiation theories and tactics; the ending of terrorist campaigns and the facilitation of peaceful transition and she has published and presented papers in conferences on these subjects. Her book on Peace Processes and Negotiating Tactics with Terrorist Organisations, contracted by Palgrave, is to be published this year (ISBN: 978-0-230-24101-5) under the ‘Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies Series’. Anastasia worked with the Corbett Centre for Maritime Policy Studies, at the Defence Studies Department directing the development and delivery of the Tactical Negotiation Skills and Piracy Issues workshops for the Royal Navy (European Piracy Task Force); the US Naval War College, Rhode Island; the Military College in Ireland (Maynouth) and the European Task Force in Naples. Anastasia worked with the Centre for Defence Studies, delivering courses on terrorism and counterterrorism for the Home Office.
Prior to her employment at Cranfield University, Anastasia held the post of Lecturer at the Defence Studies Department, King’s College London. The courses taught covered a broad range of International Relations, Security and Strategic Studies. Anastasia was also a lecturer in International Relations at Brunel University, while her teaching experience has further been fostered by four years of teaching at the War Studies Department (2000-2004). She has worked as a researcher for the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at the Ministry of Defence on the project ‘Comparative Research on Terrorist Campaigns and their Resolution’ (2002). Anastasia has working experience at the European Parliament (1996-1997), while her first degree was in journalism and she worked as a newsreader and reporter prior to embarking on an academic career. She is fluent in French, Spanish, Greek and English; she is proficient in Russian, and she is now learning Arabic.
