Professor John D. Brewer
HDSocSci, MRIA, FRSE, AcSS, FRSA

Professor of Post Conflict Studies

Phone: +44(0) 28 9097 3835
Office: 18.02.005, 19 University Square
Email: j.brewer@qub.ac.uk

John Brewer took up his post  within the Institute on 1st April 2013. He was formerly Sixth-Century Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen (2004-2013).  

He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy (2004), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2008), an Academician in the Academy of Social Sciences (2003) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (1998).

He has held visiting appointments at Yale University (1989), St John’s College Oxford (1991), Corpus Christi College Cambridge (2002) and the Australian National University (2003). In 2007-8 he was a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow.

In 2012 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Social Science from Brunel University for services to social science.

He has been President of the British Sociological Association (2009-2012) and is now Honorary Vice-President (2012-).

He sits on the governing councils of the Irish Research Council (2012-) and the Academy of Social Science (2012-). In 2010 he was made a member of the United Nations Roster of Global Experts for his expertise in the sociology of peace processes.

He is the author or co-author of fifteen books and editor or co-editor of a further three. His latest books are Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach (Polity Press, 2010), Religion, Civil Society and Peace in Northern Ireland (Oxford University Press 2011, with Francis Teeney and Gareth Higgins), Ex-Combatants, Religion and Peace in Northern Ireland (Palgrave, 2013, with David Mitchell and Gerard Leavey), and The Public Value of the Social Sciences (Bloomsbury, 2013).

He is Series Editor of the Book Series Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict and is Principal Investigator on a £1.26 million cross-national, five-year project on compromise amongst victims of conflict, funded by The Leverhulme Trust, focusing on Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka (2009-2014).  

He regularly teaches peace and reconciliation workshops in Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, and together with colleagues in Sri Lanka runs a widows project, bringing together Sinhalese and Tamil widows and children for respite breaks.

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