Leonie B. Jackson is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Northumbria University, UK. She is the author of The Monstrous and the Vulnerable: Framing British Jihadi Brides and Islamophobia in Britain: The Making of a Muslim Enemy.

Lee Jarvis is Professor of International Politics at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is (co-) author or editor of fourteen books and over fifty articles or chapters on the politics of security, including Times of Terror: Discourse, Temporality and the War on Terror.

Harmonie Toros is Reader in International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent, UK, where she researches how humans engage with political violence. She has published and advised governments and international organizations on non-violent alternatives to counter-terrorism.