Dr Stephen McLoughlin

Stephen McLoughlin is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University in August 2020. His research interests include mass atrocity prevention, the role of the UN in conceptualising and carrying out prevention, the causes of genocide and mass atrocities, and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). He is the author of The Structural Prevention of Mass Atrocities (Routledge 2014) and Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention (with Alex Bellamy) (Palgrave 2018, with Alex Bellamy). Stephen is particularly interested in why it is that mass atrocities do not occur in places where the risk factors associated with such violence are salient. He is also interested in the role that political leaders play in mitigating the risk associated with these crimes. Stephen is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect. He has been writing about mass atrocity prevention and pillar one-related issues for more than a decade, and has published extensively in this area.