2025 Cyril Foster Lecture: How to End Wars: Pragmatic Approaches to Peacebuilding

An exclusive interview with speaker, Dan Leaf. 

Dan is the Managing Director of Phase Minus 1, LLC (PM1), a company he formed in 2017. His focus areas include peace on the Korean Peninsula, the US-Viet Nam relationship, conflict resolution, effective governance, and strategic leadership.

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Politics is at the heart of human life. From an international, to an interpersonal scale, political structures and processes profoundly affect the distribution of resources and human rights. Our vision is a world with a wider understanding of political power, process, and its impact. This is what we study, and this is what we teach.

Celebrating 25 years of DPIR

Throughout 2025, we’re recognising the real-world impact and influence of our research over the past 25 years. Join us as we celebrate successes of staff and students – past and present - and connect with our alumni from across the world. 

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Hannah-Sophie Weber

I’ve met countless brilliant students and researchers - my project would be far from where it is now without their advice, input, and friendship.

Hannah-Sophie Weber, first year DPhil in Politics and a Junior Researcher at the European Cyber Conflict Research Initiative (ECCRI).