Belloni

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Dr Roberto Belloni

Lecturer in International Politics
(PhD Denver)

Contact Details
Room 18.103
tel: ++44 (0) 28 9097 3493
email: r.belloni@qub.ac.uk

Teaching Areas

Ethnic conflict; conflict management; the Balkans; human rights.

Research Interests

My main research interest is on the management of conflict and democratization of deeply divided societies, with special reference to the Balkans. I have a particular interest in the role of international actors in post-settlement interventions, and the influence of human rights norms in these interventions.

Recent/Selected Publications

  • “Shades of Orange and Green: Civil Society and the Peace Process in Northern Ireland,” in Michaelene Cox, ed., Social Capital and Peace-Building: Creating and Resolving Conflict with Trust and Social Networks, Routledge, 2008, forthcoming
  • "Italy and the Balkans: The Rise of a Reluctant Middle Power,” Modern Italy, 13 (2), 2008, Special Issue on ‘Italy in the Mediterranean,’ pp. 169-185 (with Roberto Morozzo della Rocca)
  • “Role-Playing International Intervention in Conflict Areas: Lessons from Bosnia for Northern Ireland Education,” International Studies Perspectives, 9, 2008, pp. 227-241
  • “Civil Society in War-to-Democracy Transitions,” in Anna Jarstad and Timothy D. Sisk, Eds., From War to Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 182-210.
  • State Building and International Intervention in Bosnia (Routledge 2007)
  • “The Trouble with Humanitarianism,” Review of International Studies, 2007 Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 451-474.
  • “Rethinking ‘Nation-Building:’ The Contradictions of the Neo-Wilsonian Approach to Democracy Promotion,” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2007, pp. 97-109.
  • 'The Tragedy of Darfur and the Limits of the “Responsibility to Protect,”' Ethnopolitics, Vol. 5, No. 4, 2006, pp. 327-346.
  • 'From Belfast to Bosnia: Piecemeal Peacemaking and the Role of Institutional Learning,' Civil Wars, Vol. 7, No. 3 (2005), pp. 219-243 (with Shelly Deane).
  • 'Peacebuilding at the Local Level: Refugee Return to Prijedor,' International Peacekeeping, Vol 12, No. 3 (2005), pp. 434-447. Also Published in David Chandler, ed., Peace without Politics? Ten Years of International State-Building in Bosnia, London: Routledge, 2006, pp. 128-141.
  • 'Is Humanitarianism Part of the Problem? Nine Theses,' BCSIA Discussion Paper 2005-03, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, April 2005. Available at: http://bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu/BCSIA_content/documents/Belloni.pdf
  • 'Peacebuilding and Consociational Electoral Engineering in Bosnia-Herzegovina,' International Peacekeeping, Vol. 11, No. 2 (2004), pp. 334-353.