Andrew Bell

Andrew Bell is a senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Conflict at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in political science from Duke University (Security, Peace and Conflict), J.D.-M.A. from the University of Virginia School of Law (international law), and M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School (ethics and just war theory). His research is interdisciplinary in nature and focuses on international security and conflict, international law, and the role of ethics and norms in shaping military conduct.

Previously, Dr. Bell served as the lead for professional military education at the U.S. Department of Defense Civilian Protection Center of Excellence; senior research fellow in conflict and law at the International Committee of the Red Cross; and assistant professor of international studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University.

Dr. Bell has held positions as a visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College; a postdoctoral fellow at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University; a research fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy; a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Law and Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); a visiting research fellow at the Modern War Institute at the U.S. Military Academy; and a visiting fellow at the Centre for U.S. Politics at University College London (UCL). He currently serves as a research affiliate of the Military Ethics Research Lab and Innovation Network at UNSW Canberra. He is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force reserve with service in Iraq and Afghanistan.