"Chris Abbott is a rising star of the peace and security field. Within a short time he has established himself as a distinctive and influential voice, capable of deep analysis, and the vision to drive this analysis home where it counts."
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Chris Abbott is the founder and Executive Director of Open Briefing, the civil society intelligence agency. He is also a freelance writer and consultant and has worked for a wide range of clients, from the British Ministry of Defence and the Australian Federal Police to Greenpeace International, and had articles commissioned by publications as diverse as Jane's Intelligence Review and New Internationalist. His work focuses on non-traditional security threats and how to address them, including the security implications of climate change and the challenges posed by al‐Qaida and other radical movements. He is also interested in the psychology behind international relations and the proper policing of protests, and has written on many different social and environmental issues. 

He is an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Social and International Studies at the University of Bradford and Honorary Sustainable Security Consultant to Oxford Research Group (ORG), a leading global security think tank of which he was Deputy Director until 2009. He is also a member of the advisory council for the Climate Institute in Bangalore, India. Throughout 2008, Chris was an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Governance and International Affairs at the University of Bristol. He is the author of two popular books on international security and politics. 

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