Dr Tim Wilson is the Director of the Handa Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV) at St Andrews. His research interests and media appearances range widely over the past, present and future of terrorism and political violence. He is especially interested in why such horrors take the particular forms that they do. His first book Frontiers of Violence - a grassroots comparison of different patterns of ethnic violence in contested borderlands - was published in 2010. His second book Killing Strangers: How Political Violence Become Modern appeared in September 2020. Both were published by Oxford University Press.