Alasdair McKay is Senior Editor at Oxford Research Group. He holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the universities of Manchester and Aberystwyth. He has edited several books for E-International Relations, including Nations under God: The Geopolitics of Faith in the Twenty-First Century (2015) and Into the Eleventh Hour: R2P, Syria and Humanitarianism in Crisis (2014).

Abigail Watson was ORG’s Research Manager and is now a Conflict and Security Coordinator at Saferworld. She researches and presents on the military, legal and political implications of remote warfare. She has produced over 50 blogs, briefings, podcasts and reports on this subject and has presented her work at institutions like Chatham House, the Cabinet Office, the Stabilisation Unit, the Ministry of Defence and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Her work has been featured in INews, The Times, the History Channel and Just Security.

Megan Karlshøj-Pedersen is a Research and Policy Officer at the ORG. She researches the shift towards remote warfare, advocating for more transparent and accountable approaches. She has examined the challenges of contemporary remote warfare in co-authored hard-hitting reports, including on the challenges of the UK’s engagements in the Sahel and Horn of Africa and the strategic importance of protecting civilians in contemporary conflict. Her blogs, briefings, and articles have been published in outlets such as the Small Wars Journal, Defense One, openDemocracy, International Review and others. She has also presented on these topics at many conferences and workshops in the UK and internationally.