He was previously a visiting researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) in 2007 and 2012, and a consultant for the World Bank in 2006-2007. He is the author of Rebel Recruitment and Information Problems(Routledge, 2018), which explores the conditions under which rebel groups tend to rely more on coercion and inducement for recruitment. At CCW, he is conducting research on the state’s counterinsurgency techniques that are intended to exploit agency problems in a rebel group as well as other projects on civil war and peacebuilding.