Senior Researcher · Center for Security Studies, ETH Zürich

Kit Rickard

I study civil war, wartime order, and the legacies of war — how armed conflict shapes political attitudes, social order, and relations between groups in Northern Ireland, Ukraine and the post-Soviet space. I received my PhD in International Relations from UCL.

Publications

Forthcoming
Mediation process design and major-power mediation in the Northern Ireland peace process
Ó Dochartaigh & Rickard · In edited volume
Accepted
Rickard · International Studies Quarterly
2026
Duursma, Steffen, Rickard & Langenbach · Journal of Peace Research
2026
Rickard & Bakke · In Institutional Legacies of Violent Conflict: Development and State-Building in the Shadow of Wartime Institutional Change, Patricia Justino (ed.), Oxford University Press
2025
Bakke, Dahl & Rickard · Journal of Peace Research
2025
Bakke, Rickard, O’Loughlin & Toal · Problems of Post-Communism
2025
Rickard, Hollenweger, Weber & Bakke · British Journal of Political Science
2025
Rickard, Toal, Bakke & O’Loughlin · Journal of Peace Research
2023
Bakke, Rickard & O’Loughlin · Post-Soviet Affairs
2021
Chinchilla, Rickard & Spatafora · International Studies Review, Part of ‘Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars’
2021
Rickard & Bakke · Security Studies
2019
Rauta, Ayton, Chinchilla, Krieg, Rickard & Rickli · Defence Studies

Working papers

  • R&RThe institutional roots of secular party success: Evidence from 19th century FranceBulutgil & Rickard
  • ReviewMilitary occupation and community cohesion: Evidence from UkraineOttmann & Rickard
  • DraftPreferences over contested territory: Evidence from a new survey experiment in UkraineRickard, Howlett, Hrushetsky & Mueller-Crepon
  • DraftDemand or coercion: Local support for non-state armed actorsRickard & Bakke
  • DraftThe Russian invasion of Ukraine and geopolitical attitudes in Russia’s ‘near abroad’Bakke, O’Loughlin, Rickard & Toal
  • BookArming Rebellion: Foreign Support and Rebel Fragmentation in Civil WarRickard · book manuscript