Visiting PhD student | Winter 2023

Contact : blair.welsh@essex.ac.uk

Presentation

Blair Welsh is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at the University of Essex and a doctoral researcher at the Center for International Studies (CÉRIUM) at the University of Montreal. Their research focuses on militant violence and restraint in civil war. In particular, they ask questions related to the tactical selection of militants, the selection of targets and the use of terrorism in civil war, as well as civilian responses to this violence.

Areas of expertise

• Conflict
• Terrorism
• Political violence

Publications

Welsh, Blair, “Your Space or Mine? Competition, Control, and the Spatial Profile of Militant Violence Against Civilians,” forthcoming at Journal of Peace Research, March 2022. 

Faulkner, Christopher M. and Blair Welsh, “Rebel Child Soldiering and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence,” forthcoming at International Studies Quarterly, May 2022.

Polo, Sara M. T. and Blair Welsh, “An Overview of Security-Orientated Datasets: Terrorism and Counterterrorism,” forthcoming at Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies, July 2022.