Deterrence Concepts and Approaches for Current and Emerging Threats

Anastasia Filippidou is a lecturer in conflict resolution and counterterrorism at the Centre for International Security and Resilience, at Cranfield University, UK. Her research focuses on leadership, conflict resolution, and counterterrorism. Her recent funded research was on ‘Terrorism and Technology’, co-authored with Dr Afzal Ashraf (RUSI) for COE-DAT NATO (2017) and on ‘Strategic Messaging and the Role of Non-state actors in deterring radical extremism’, research commissioned by the Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre UK (DCDC) (Reference DAR16-01, 2016). In 2014 she published a comparative study on the ‘Role of Leadership in Transitional Staes’. She has previously consulted for the Home Office on counter-terrorism and has worked with the Centre for Defence Studies, delivering courses on terrorism and counterterrorism for the Home Office.