CTS, counterterrorism and non-violence

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Acknowledgements

I acknowledge the support of the New Zealand Marsden Fund in the preparation of this Commentary, the research for which was conducted under the Marsden Fund proposal, 14-UOO-075, “A new politics of peace? Investigations in contemporary Pacifism and Nonviolence”. I am also grateful to the Global Insecurities Centre in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol, for the award of a Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professorship which enabled a period of study leave at in July-August 2016 where I wrote the first draft of this Commentary. Thanks to my fellow editors of the special issue for comments on an earlier draft of this Commentary which have improved it a great deal.

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Funding

I acknowledge the support of The Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Fund in the preparation of this Commentary, the research for which was conducted under the Marsden Fund proposal, 14-UOO-075, “A new politics of peace? Investigations in contemporary Pacifism and Nonviolence”.

Notes on contributors

Richard Jackson

Richard Jackson is Professor of Peace Studies and Deputy Director of the National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Otago, New Zealand. He is the editor-in-chief of Critical Studies on Terrorism, and his most recent book is The Routledge Handbook of Critical Terrorism Studies (Routledge, 2016). He is also the author of a research-based novel entitled Confessions of a Terrorist (Zed, 2014).