Prof.Oliver Richmond is a leading scholar in the field of IR, Peace and Conflict Studies. He has worked with international actors, especially the UN, and civil society organisations in several conflict-affected areas around the world, and has also conducted fieldwork on local, state, and international problems of peacebuilding in multiple locations, including Timor Leste, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Colombia.

He is the author of The Grand Design: Peace in the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2022), Peace in International Relations (Routledge, 2020- 2nd Ed.), Peace Formation and Political Order in Conflict Affected Societies (Oxford University Press, 2016), and Failed Statebuilding: Intervention, the State and the Dynamics of Peace Formation (Yale University Press, 2014). He also published a Very Short Introduction to Peace (Oxford University Press, 2 ed., 2023). He is currently leading several global research projects: including the AHRC-project ‘ The Art of Peace’ (with civil society, arts partners in Lebanon, Bosnia, South Africa, and Colombia); the African Research Universities Alliance -UK Research Partnership Programme for Capacity Building in Post-conflict Societies (including universities from Ethiopia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Somaliland/ Somalia, and Zimbabwe); and the Global Challenges Research Fund-project ‘Blockages to Peace’ (including civil society organisations in Colombia, Bosnia, Kosovo, Cyprus, Tunisia, and Sri Lanka). In 2019, he received an Eminent Scholar Award from the International Studies Association.

Timofey's work is concerned with policies and political actors involved in negotiating durable solutions to conflicting commitments of protecting group-relevant interests and guarantees of individual equality. He is interested in relationships between the institutions of the state and expectations from these institutions in society, the relationships between the majority and the minority after group-based conflict, and issues relating to equality and non-discrimination in culturally diverse societal contexts. Using the cases of institutions tasked with minority protection, he investigates how democratising states cooperate with one another as well as with international organisations to reduce ethnic tensions domestically and ensure peace and stability.