ABSTRACT
As can be seen in the contents of this handbook, the range of topics currently mapped by the existing body of scholarship on media, communications and conflict is indeed impressive and can be linked with a remarkably large number of specialist fields that can be found across the security studies literature, ranging from the topic of traditional war and human security concerns through to newer issues such as global environmental change and cybersecurity. At the same time, the act of editing and drawing together the existing literature into one place has allowed us to perceive more clearly areas that, between us as editors, we feel are particularly worthy of further sustained exploration. By way of conclusion, we draw these thoughts and opinions together in order to suggest a number of areas and issues in need of further research.
