He holds a PhD from the University of Exeter's institute of Arab and Islamic Studies where he completed a dissertation on the international dimensions of Algeria's civil conflict of the 1990s. He is coeditor of The Post-Conflict Environment (University of Michigan Press, 2014) and coauthor of Western Sahara: War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution (Syracuse University Press, 2010). His monograph, Imaginative Geographies of Algerian Violence: Conflict Science, Conflict Management, Anti-politics, will be published by Stanford University Press in 2015.