Dr. Gunning is Deputy Director of the Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence and Lecturer in Terrorism Studies and Middle Eastern Studies at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University. He has carried out consultant work for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the British Foreign Affairs Committee, the EU Commission and the US government and was a member of a three-year-long research project on ‘Political Violence', sponsored by the Norwegian Government. He is also the architect of the world's first dedicated Masters in terrorism studies. Dr. Gunning's publications include Hamas in Politics: Democracy, Religion, Violence; ‘A Case for Critical Terrorism Studies?' in Government and Opposition; and ‘Peace with Hamas? The transforming potential of political participation' in International Affairs.