This project aims to produce revisions of our understandings of colonial and postcolonial conflicts, particularly by increasing knowledge, and use of, non-European sources. Specific areas of interest to participants include states of terror, people’s and insurgent perspectives on conflict, counterinsurgency practice, the role of religion in these conflicts, and negotiation.
Karl Hack (ed.), Special Issue on 'Negotiating with the enemy', Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 39, 4 (2009), featuring articles from nineteenth century Waziristan to contemporary Afghanistan and Northern Ireland. He has also delivered talks on Southeast Asia during 2011 at the Universities of London, Lisbon and New York.
'Extracting counterinsurgency lessons: Afghanistan and Malaya, at the RUSI website (Autumn 2009).
Karl Hack interviewed by Octavian Manea, 'Setting the Record Straight on the Malayan Emergency', Small Wars Journal (February 2011), online, with associated blog.
