Francis O’Connor is a senior researcher at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and a member of the COSMOS research network. His broad research interests are civil wars and contentious politics, along with a particular interest in the overlap between social movements and political violence. He has recently published a number of articles on the PKK, lone actor radicalization and social movements in Ireland and South Africa. @monageafrancis https://www.hsfk.de/en/staff/employees/francis-oconnor/