Christopher Cramer teaches at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. He is the author of Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing: Accounting for Violence in Developing Countries (C Hurst, 2006).

Recent articles

There is a difference between recognising the complexity of war and celebrating it, says Christopher Cramer in reply to Martin Shaw's critique.

The myths of the "liberal peace thesis" cloud awareness that war can be formative as well as ruinous, says Christopher Cramer, author of "Civil War is Not a Stupid Thing".