Christine Cheng
Christine Cheng is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in War Studies at King’s College London. Dr Cheng is the author of Extralegal Groups in Post-Conflict Liberia - How Trade Makes the State (Oxford University Press), winner of the 2019 Conflict Research Society’s Annual Book Prize. Working with the UK government’s Stabilisation Unit, she co-authored Securing and Sustaining Elite Bargains that Reduce Violent Conflict, the final report of the influential Elite Bargains and Political Deals project on conflict-affected countries in war-to-peace transitions. She co-edited Corruption and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding: Selling the Peace? and co-authored the Chatham House report on Conflict Economies in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya (chosen as a top think tank report in the 2019 global rankings). Dr Cheng co-edits the book series on 21st Century Perspectives on War, Peace, and Human Conflict (Palgrave).
At King’s, Dr Cheng is currently the programme director for the MA in Conflict, Security, and Development (CSD) where she founded the Strife blog and the annual CSD conference. Previously, she was the Boskey Fellow in Politics at Exeter College, Oxford, and the Cadieux-Léger Fellow at Global Affairs Canada. She has worked for the UN and the World Bank. Dr Cheng is an elected member of the Liberal Democrats’ Federal Policy Committee. She chairs the LibDems’ International Security policy working group and advised on the party’s 2017 and 2019 election manifestos. She holds a DPhil from Oxford and an MPA from Princeton. She also sits on the Board of Trustees at Conciliation Resources and the Scientific Advisory Board for swisspeace.
