Joel Battle is a first-year graduate student at Worcester College, reading an MPhil in International Relations. Before Oxford, he graduated from the University of Exeter with a BA in History and International Relations where he earned a Global Excellence Scholarship the David Boyce Essay Prize. His focal research interests include security studies and US foreign policy. Joel’s MPhil research considers the impact of climate change on UN peacekeeping missions; his academic and research supervisor is Professor Richard Caplan. 

I am a DPhil student in Politics at the DPIR, and a member of Green Templeton College. My research focuses on the intersection of politics and organised crime. My doctoral thesis provides a framework for explaining variation in territorial control in Latin American cities, explaining how and why States are able to gain and sustain territorial control in marginalised urban communities dominated by armed criminal actors.

I am a DPhil candidate in International Relations at the University of Oxford. My doctoral project explores the intersection between the politics of victimhood and peacebuilding, focusing on the experiences of Sri Lanka and Colombia in the aftermath of war. My research is being generously funded by the Colombian Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (MinCiencias).