J. David Thompson is a U.S. Army Civil Affairs officer. He holds a Juris Doctorate from Washington and Lee University School of Law and is a PhD candidate at King’s College London. Outside of the military and academia, he has professional experience with Physicians for Human Rights, the World Bank, and the United Nations Refugee Agency.

Research Interests

• Just War Tradition
• Irregular warfare / proxy warfare
• International human rights law and international humanitarian law
• Non-state actors

David’s research focuses on the ethics of proxy warfare, irregular warfare's “by, with, and through.”

Thesis 

Just and Unjust Proxy Wars: Examining the implications of irregular warfare’s “by, with, and through” within the framework of Just War Tradition

Supervisors

• Dr David Whetham
• Dr Christian Braun