Robin Dunford

Robin Dunford is a Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton's School of Humanities and Social Science, affiliated with the Inclusive Digital Societies Research Excellence Group and Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics. His academic profile centers on critical global ethics and political philosophy with emphasis on structural justice.

His research spans four interconnected domains:

• Civilian Protection and Responsibility to Protect, critiquing conventional frameworks through works like Just War and the Responsibility to Protect: A Critique;
• Human Rights and Transnational Resistance, particularly peasant rights advocacy via the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants;
• Decolonial Ethics, advancing 'pluriversality' as an alternative to cosmopolitanism in global ethics;
• Law, Ethics and Democracy, co-coordinating action-research against anti-democratic governance through the Law, Ethics and Democracy Collective.

Recent publications (2019-2025) reveal consistent engagement with decolonial theory, food sovereignty movements, and curriculum transformation, frequently intersecting transnational activism with critical race and peasant studies.

Dunford supervises PhD candidates including Afxentis Afxentiou (drone ethics), Marina Espinoza (Obama drone program), and current students exploring nonviolence, disability movements, Marxist imperialism, and feminist cosmopolitanism.

He co-edits the 'Off the Fence: Morality, Politics, Society' book series and co-convenes the British International Studies Association's Ethics and World Politics working group.