Dr Henry Redwood joined the Department of War Studies in September 2022. He had previously completed his ESRC PhD in War Studies in 2017. His work examines how communities are formed through, and as a result of, war, with a specific interest in the role that arts, archives and ideas of justice play in this process. His current focus is on the use of the arts as a response to war-trauma in Ukraine, and is working with partners to develop and research new arts programming aimed at assisting war-affected populations.

For an example of this work, see their June 2024 summer school on Trauma-Informed Arts in Kyiv.

Henry has received several research council grants to support this work (ESRC and AHRC), and he has been published widely, including with Cambridge (2021), Routledge (2021a; 2021b), Review of International Studies (2019), Millennium (2020), Critical Studies on Security (2021), Journal of Peacebuilding and Development (2022).

Henry has worked frequently with practitioners as part of his research and engagement, including the ArtDot, Opera Circus, BlkBrd Collective, Mark Neville, and has co-produced several public exhibitions and artworks, including Undiscernible (2019) and The Notebook (2020) with Vladimir Miladinović.

Research Interests

Henry’s work sits at the intersection of international relations, international law, the arts and history. The research explores how communities are formed through, and as a result, of war. Empirically, theoretically and methodologically this has drawn on law, archives and aesthetic politics as important sites and processes of community formation and governance. Whilst he has explored a number of different conflicts, most of his research has focused on the Western Balkans, Ukraine and Rwanda.

• War and society
• Peacebuilding and transitional justice
• Archives
• Aesthetic politics
• Political communications in war
• Visual methods
• International law
• War crimes
• Militarism
• Late-modern warfare
• Ukraine

Selected publications and conference papers

• Griffiths, M and Redwood, H. 2024. Late Modern War and the Geos. International Political Sociology 18(2): https://academic.oup.com/ips/article/18/2/olae011/7644469
• Redwood, H., Morina, E. and Rexha, J., 2024. Towards Emancipatory Statebuilding in Kosovo? Spatial and Aesthetic Community Building After War. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17502977.2023.2291918
• Redwood H, Fairey T, Hasić J. (2022) Hybrid Peacebuilding in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Participatory Arts and Youth Activism as Vehicles of Social Change. Journal of Peacebuilding & Development. doi:10.1177/15423166211066775. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15423166211066775
• Redwood, H. (2021). The Archival Politics of International Courts. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/archival-politics-of-international-courts/02DB53C8BEABB76587E5B0A03AB29863
• Kerr, R, Redwood, H., and Gow., J. eds (2021). Reconciliation After War: Historical Perspectives on Transitional Justice. London: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Reconciliation-after-War-Historical-Perspectives-on-Transitional-Justice/Kerr-Redwood-Gow/p/book/9780367672201?srsltid=AfmBOooslIezWTBSBPvRHKXsb82jb6p-yDaQAiZQA3A70O4ogsQocmQI

For Full list of publications see: https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/henry.redwood

Teaching

• Co-Convener of the MA in Strategic Communications
• War, Crisis and Political Communications (BA2)
• Strategic Communications: Theories and Concepts (MA)
• Applied Strategic Communications (MA)

Henry is happy to supervise projects that relate to his research interests.

He is particular interested in projects that focus on the role of arts in conflict-settings and/ or Ukraine. 

Publications 

Henry's PURE page