Stephen Anning

Address: Highfield, SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom
Tel: +447977203704
Email: stephen.anning@trilateralresearch.com
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Specialist areas of work and services:
  • Armed Conflict & Military
  • Forced Criminality
  • General
  • Organ Trafficking
  • Other
  • Prostitution & Sex Slavery

Description:
Presently a PhD Candidate and developing expertise on slavery in conflict based on personal experience during military service and thorough research.

Experience, Background and Services:
Following a career in the British Army, IBM and an MA on Conflict, Security and Development, currently a PhD Candidate at Southampton University’s Web Science Institute. As an Army Reservist, additionally leading a research project to better substantiate the problem of slavery in conflict.

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Offering:
- Advice on slavery in conflict
- Advice on the intersection of slavery with terrorism
- Advice on technology services for anti-slavery
- Advice on the Web's role in slavery
- Expert witness
- Training development and delivery

PhD incorporates Peace Studies and Computer Science to determine the possibility of using natural language processing to detect patterns of language used to legitimise violence against other people. As a form or violence, slavery provides a case study and would yield the cultural dynamics of how perpetrators may choose to justify their actions.

In researching computer science with domain expertise in slavery, offering technology services to anyone seeking to employ Data Science and Artificial Intelligence to tackle slavery.

As a former Army Officer and Academic, also offering expertise at the intersection of slavery with terrorism. Offences of slavery probably provide explanatory value to substantiate the process of radicalisation.