Giulia Grillo

Dr Giulia Grillo is Lecturer and Projects and Research Grants Officer at LSE IDEAS.

She researches topics on peace and conflict, radicalisation processes, and political violence. She is particularly interested in better understanding the origins of violence and conflict to find better ways to address them and applies an interdisciplinary approach to the study of these topics. Her PhD thesis is titled ‘Psychological Perspectives on Radicalisation Processes. Stories from the Italian Far Left’ and combines IR and conflict studies with psychology. She is also member of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC) of the University of Kent, UK.

Giulia's publications include two open-access articles in 2025, "How a Dehumanising Form of Language Can Impact Outgroups' Decision to Engage in Violence: An Analysis of the Italian Far Left" in PArtecipazione e COnflitto: PACO, 18(3), pp. 748-764, 10.1285/i20356609v18i3p748, and "A Gestalt perspective on Manichaean worldviews and individuals' engagement in violence: the case of the Italian far left", in Frontiers in Political Science, 7, pp. 1-13, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2025.1432824, as well as a book chapter in 2026 “Social exclusion and radicalisation: How a moralistic language contributes to violence by fostering interpersonal and intergroup separation” in Abbas, McNeil-Willson, and Vostermans eds., The Routledge International Handbook on Social Exclusion and Radicalisation, Routledge." She is also currently working on turning her PhD thesis into a book.