Tom Woodhouse

Biography

Tom Woodhouse has been a member of the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford since its formation in 1974, when he was appointed as research assistant to the first Professor, Adam Curle.  He was the founding Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution, and was appointed to a Personal Chair, the Adam Curle Chair in Conflict Resolution, in 1999. He was Academic Director of the Rotary International Programme in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at Bradford (2008-2012), and a member of the Rotary International Steering group which formed the Rotary Short Course Programme in Peace Studies Chulalonkorn University in Bangkok. He taught on this Programme from its formation until 2021 and was a member of the Academic Committee supporting the Chula programme. He retired from full time work in October 2012 and is currently Emeritus Professor in Peace Studies and International Development.   He has taught widely in the UK and abroad on courses related to peace studies and conflict resolution, peacebuilding and sport and conflict resolution. He is currently a visiting Associate Professor at the University of Ramon LLul, Barcelona. He was a member of the Advisory Board for the UNESCO Chair in Sport and Peace at the Open University of Catalunya, Barcelona. He currently serves as a member of the International Advisory Committee of the Institute for Economics and Peace. He is a member of the Council of the Conflict Research Society, and a member of the Advisory Panel for the Independent Football Ombudsman, specializing on football and community relations. He was involved with the formation of the International Peace Technology Group, in partnership with the Jean Golding Institute for Data Science at Bristol University.   He has published extensively across the field of peace research, conflict resolution peacekeeping, and sport development and peace. He is co-author, with Oliver Ramsbotham, Hugh Miall and Harmonie Toros, of the internationally acclaimed book Contemporary Conflict Resolution.  Published by Polity Press and now in its 4th, edition,  a 5th edition is currently in preparation. Other publications include Adam Curle: Radical Peacemaker, with John Paul Lederach, published by Hawthorne Press in 2016, and a comprehensive training manual, Peacekeeping and Conflict Resolution, commissioned by the Peace Operations Training Institute. With Oliver Ramsbotham he is the academic editor of the Routledge Series in Peace and Conflict Resolution, which to date includes over 80 monographs which includes titles by the leading authors in conflict resolution theory and practice globally.   His current research focuses on the Sport Development and Peace sector, and especially on football and community and football and the SDGs. He is an adviser/consultant to the NGO  Goals for Peace, based in Bucaramanga, Colombia.   He has written an expert 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, International Development and the SDGs, published in the Handbook of Sport and International Development by Edward Publishers in 2023.   He is the webmaster and curator of the website football4community which reports on Sport and the SDGs, and is Honorary President of Peace FC, the football club of PSID, which competes with War Studies at Kings College London for the Tolstoy Cup. This match has been recognized by the Financial Times as one of the top five of the world’s great inter-college sporting rivalries.