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Karen Allen serves as a Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London's School of Security Studies. An alumna of the institution, she is currently based at South Africa's Institute for Security Studies where she leads the programme on emerging threats in Africa.
Her research expertise spans critical security domains including:
- Relationships between international justice and terrorism
- Unintended consequences of new technologies (UAS/drones)
- Cyber dependent and cyber enabled crimes
- Disinformation campaigns on social media
- Digital vigilantism
- War crimes and conflict studies
Allen contributes scholarly analysis to NATO's Defence Strategic Communications and international newspapers, focusing on technological impacts in African security contexts. She actively participates in King's War Crimes Research Group conducting teaching and research on war crimes broadly conceived.
Her professional foundation includes 15 years as a BBC Foreign Correspondent with extensive field experience in East/Southern Africa, Afghanistan, Iraq (2002, 2004, 2016), and Libya (2012), providing deep operational understanding of conflict zones that informs current research.
