Dr. Kit Rickard

Haldeneggsteig 4
8092 Zürich
Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 632 63 70
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Dr. Kit Rickard is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the Political Science Department at University College London (UCL). His research spans international relations, peace studies, and comparative politics, and primarily concerns three themes: international security, civil war dynamics, and the legacies of war.

His research is primarily concerned with the international dimension of civil wars, tackling questions of why, when, and how the international network of states intervene in foreign civil wars and their impact on rebel dynamics. He also investigates the legacies of civil war, focusing on communal legacies of informal rule and state-society relations in Northern Ireland. Finally, Kit employs innovative quantitative designs to study public opinion in the former-Soviet space, with a particular focus on Ukraine.

Selected Publications:

external page Rickard, Kit, Giovanni Hollenweger, Sigrid Weber, and Kristin M Bakke. 'Contentious rituals and inter-group relations: Parading in Northern Ireland'. British Journal of Political Science.

external page Bakke, Kristin M, Marianne Dahl and Kit Rickard. 2025. 'Conflict exposure and people’s perception of protection of democratic principles: Evidence from wartime Ukraine'. Journal of Peace Research.

external page Rickard, Kit, Gerard Toal, Kristin M. Bakke, and John O’Loughlin. 2025. 'The challenges of surveying in war zones: Lessons from Ukraine'. Journal of Peace Research.

external page Bakke, K.M.; Rickard, K. (2023) 'Ten Pound Touts: Post-Conflict Trust and the Legacy of Counterinsurgency in Northern Ireland', WIDER Working Paper 2023/18. Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.

external page Bakke, Kristin M.; Kit Rickard & John O'Loughlin (2023) 'Perceptions of the Past in the Post-Soviet Space', Post-Soviet Affairs 39, 4: 223-256.

external page Rickard, Kit & Kristin M. Bakke (2021) 'Legacies of Wartime Order: Punishment Attacks and Social Control in Northern Ireland', Security Studies 30, 4: 603-636.

external page Karlén, Niklas; Vladimir Rauta; Idean Salehyan; Andrew Mumford; Belgin San-Akca; Alexandra Stark; Michel Wyss; Assaf Moghadam; Allard Duursma; Henning Tamm; Erin K Jenne; Milos Popovic; David S Siroky; Vanessa Meier; Alexandra Chinchilla; Kit Rickard & Giuseppe Spatafora (2021) 'Forum: Conflict Delegation in Civil Wars', International Studies Review 23, 4: 2048-2078.

external page Rauta, Vladimir; Matthew Ayton; Alexandra Chinchilla; Andreas Krieg; Christopher Rickard & Jean-Marc Rickli (2019) 'A Symposium – Debating "Surrogate Warfare" and the Transformation of War', Defence Studies 19, 4: 410-430.