Biography
Tom Woodhouse has been a member of the Department of Peace Studies atthe University of Bradford since its formation in 1974, when he was appointedas research assistant to the first Professor, Adam Curle. He wasthe founding Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution, and was appointedto a Personal Chair, the Adam Curle Chair in Conflict Resolution, in 1999. He was Academic Director of the RotaryInternational Programme in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at Bradford(2008-2012), and a member of the Rotary International Steering group whichformed the Rotary Short Course Programme in Peace Studies ChulalonkornUniversity in Bangkok. He taught on this Programme from its formation until2021 and was a member of the Academic Committee supporting the Chula programme.He retired from full time work in October 2012 and is currently EmeritusProfessor in Peace Studies and International Development. He has taught widely in the UK and abroad on courses related to peacestudies and conflict resolution, peacebuilding and sport and conflictresolution. He is currently a visiting Associate Professor at the University ofRamon LLul, Barcelona. He was a member of the Advisory Board for the UNESCOChair in Sport and Peace at the Open University of Catalunya, Barcelona. Hecurrently serves as a member of the International Advisory Committee of theInstitute for Economics and Peace. He is a member of the Council of theConflict Research Society, and a member of the Advisory Panel for theIndependent Football Ombudsman, specializing on football and communityrelations. He was involved with the formation of the International PeaceTechnology Group, in partnership with the Jean Golding Institute for DataScience at Bristol University. He has publishedextensively across the field of peace research, conflict resolutionpeacekeeping, and sport development and peace. He is co-author, with OliverRamsbotham, Hugh Miall and Harmonie Toros, of the internationally acclaimedbook Contemporary Conflict Resolution. Published by Polity Pressand now in its 4th, edition, a 5thedition is currently in preparation. Other publications include Adam Curle:Radical Peacemaker, with John Paul Lederach, published by Hawthorne Press in2016, and a comprehensive training manual, Peacekeeping and ConflictResolution, commissioned by the Peace Operations Training Institute. WithOliver Ramsbotham he is the academic editor of the Routledge Series in Peaceand Conflict Resolution, which to date includes over 80 monographs whichincludes titles by the leading authors in conflict resolution theory andpractice globally. His current researchfocuses on the Sport Development and Peace sector, and especially on footballand community and football and the SDGs. He is an adviser/consultant to theNGO Goals for Peace, based in Bucaramanga, Colombia. He has written anexpert survey on Sport and Peace for the Routledge Handbook on Sport Development and Peace,published in 2019, and most recently he has co-authored, with Yolanda Antin Hito Fujihara, a chapter entitled Sport, InternationalDevelopment and the SDGs, published in the Handbook of Sport and InternationalDevelopment by Edward Publishers in 2023. He is the webmaster and curatorof the website football4community which reports on Sport and the SDGs, and isHonorary President of Peace FC, the football club of PSID, which competes withWar Studies at Kings College London for the Tolstoy Cup. This match has beenrecognized by the Financial Times as one of the top five of the world’s greatinter-college sporting rivalries.
