Dylan O’Driscoll is a Professor (Research) at the Centre for Peace and Security (CPS), where he leads the Peace and Conflict Research Theme. He is also Associate Senior Fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). His work bridges academia and policy and focuses on the drivers of conflict and pathways to peace. He is particularly interested in understanding people’s behaviour in relation to acts of peace and conflict at the everyday level.

Prior to joining CPS Dylan was Director of the MENA Programme and Senior Researcher at SIPRI. He previously held the Conflict Research Fellowship at the Social Science Research Council; was Associate at the LSE Middle East Centre; was a Researcher and Lecturer at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester; was a Research fellow at the Middle East Research Institute (MERI) in Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq; and a Visiting Researcher at the Polish Institute for International Affairs (PISM), in Warsaw, Poland. He has a PhD in Ethnopolitics from the University of Exeter.

Dylan has led projects funded by the British Academy, USAID, UNDP, Robert Bosch Stiftung, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Social Science Research Council.