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A beacon of hope for divided nations

The many conferences and events hosted by The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute aim to foster open and critical discussions about the challenges of uniting war-torn communities.

Recent events include:

Twenty Years of Peace, part of a series of conversations about pursuing progress in Northern Ireland, held at Yale University in the United States.

Building Peace: The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement 20 Years On, which united key figures from the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

Global Conflict: The Human Impact, co-ordinated in partnership with The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts at the University of Chicago to address the human cost of violent conflict.

The annual Harri Holkeri Lecture series at Queen’s, with recent guest speakers including Michael D Higgins and former Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern

Past Events

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'Contested Resonances' Conference: Creativity, Listening and Performance in Conflict Transformation

Dates: 29/07/2021 - 30/07/2021
Time: 9:00AM - 7:00PM
Location: Online Event
Category: Conference / Symposium

Mitchell Institute partners on US Ireland Summit

Date: 1/07/2021
Time: 1:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Online Event
Category: Conference / Symposium

The Global Peace Index 2021: Understanding Peace

Date: 1/07/2021
Time: 12:00PM - 1:00PM
Location: Online Event
Category: Masterclass

Pandemic Tech: The Interplay of Covid-19 and Pandemic Tech in Shaping the Pandemic Experience

Dates: 16/06/2021 - 17/06/2021
Time: 1:00PM - 5:30PM
Location: Online Event via MS Teams
Category: Conference / Symposium

Professor Raphael Cohen-Almagor (Oxford) on 'Arafat, Barak and Clinton at Camp David'

Date: 2/06/2021
Time: 4:30PM - 5:30PM
Location: Online Event
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Investigating the Cinematic Representation of Northern Irish Unionists

Date: 26/05/2021
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Online Event via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Institute Honorary Professor of Practice Jonathan Powell 'In Conversation'

Date: 19/05/2021
Time: 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Location: Online Event
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

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A Troubled Sleep: Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland

Date: 17/05/2021
Time: 4:30PM - 6:30PM
Location: Online event via Microsoft Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

'Racism isn't getting worse. It's getting filmed': (counter-)surveillance and BLM

Date: 12/05/2021
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Online Event via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

“Greening” Transitional Justice?

Date: 28/04/2021
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Online Event via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

The Good Friday Agreement and a United Ireland

Date: 27/04/2021
Time: 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Location: Online event via Zoom
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

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Digital Ethnography: Fieldwork During the Pandemic

Date: 21/04/2021
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Online Event via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

The Poppy and the Black Ribbon: Counteract Dealing with Workplace Disputes during the NI Conflict

Date: 24/03/2021
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Online Event via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Conflict Textiles Exhibition Launch

Date: 24/03/2021
Time: 10:30AM - 11:30AM
Location: Online Event
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Building Peace Across Religious Divides in Nigeria with Professor Darren Kew

Date: 11/03/2021
Time: 5:00PM - 6:15PM
Location: Online event
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Anthropology Seminar

Date: 2/03/2021
Time: 4:15PM - 5:15PM
Location: Online event
Category: Workshop / Seminar / Course

Fireside Chat – Children, Writing and Social Justice: Some Early Modern Example

Date: 24/02/2021
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Online Event via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Security speech in the online area: Trump, Twitter and the Syrian civil war

LINCS Seminar - Security speech in the online era: Trump, Twitter and the Syrian civil war

Date: 10/02/2021
Time: 3:00PM - 4:00PM
Location: Online Event via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Professor John Paul Lederach 'In Conversation' with Dr Gladys Ganiel

Date: 3/02/2021
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Online event
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Dreamworlds of Race: Book Launch and Panel Discussion

Date: 11/01/2021
Time: 2:00PM - 3:30PM
Location: Online event via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Decolonising War and Peace

Date: 18/12/2020
Time: 1:00PM - 2:15PM
Location: Online event via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Fireside Chat – Participatory Filmmaking on the subject of the state killings in Rio de Janeiro

Date: 16/12/2020
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Online Event via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Martin McDonagh’s Writings Through the Lens of Justice

Date: 27/11/2020
Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: Virtual session via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Interdisciplinary invitation to anthropology-led conference on 'Ending'

Dates: 26/11/2020 - 27/11/2020
Time: 9:00AM - 8:00PM
Location: Virtual Conference
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Fireside Chat – The Normalisation of the Global Far-Right

Date: 25/11/2020
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Virtual Session via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

The Centre Cannot Hold

Date: 18/11/2020
Time: 6:30PM - 8:00PM
Location: Online Event
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

ANNUAL SENATOR GEORGE J. MITCHELL PEACE LECTURE

Date: 29/10/2020
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Online
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

The Drone Age: Technology, War and Peace

Date: 22/10/2020
Time: 4:00PM - 5:15PM
Location: Online event via Microsoft Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Fireside Chat – Si vis pacem, para bellum: Everyday women, militarised behaviours, and opportunistic

Date: 21/10/2020
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Virtual Session via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Fireside Chat – Being Palestinian: What to Do When a People Are Not Mentioned in the Law?

Date: 30/09/2020
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Virtual Session via MS Teams
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Professor Richard English on ‘Religion and Terrorism’

Date: 29/07/2020
Time: 1:00PM - 1:30PM
Location: YouTube
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

The Impact of Covid-19 on Global Peace, Stability and the Economic Outlook

Date: 2/07/2020
Time: 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Location: Online Event via Zoom
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Fireside Chat - How Organisations Navigate Conflict and Build Peace - Dr Joanne Murphy

Date: 27/05/2020
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Virtual Session via Zoom
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

'True' Stories: Contesting Narratives of Violence Virtual Conference

Dates: 25/05/2020 - 26/05/2020
Time: 2:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Virtual Conference via Zoom
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Institute Honorary Professors Powell and Montgomery in conversation

Date: 18/05/2020
Time: 7:30PM - 9:00PM
Location: The Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Fireside Chat - Not Business as Usual - Dr Rosie Burrows

Date: 29/04/2020
Time: 5:00PM - 6:30PM
Location: Virtual Session via Zoom
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Human Rights

Date: 14/02/2020
Time: 2:00PM - 3:00PM
Location: 0G/005, Mathematics & Physics Teaching Centre

Fireside Chat - Northern Ireland and the Norm of Self-Determination – Professor Adrian Guelke

Date: 29/01/2020
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Common Room, Mitchell Institute, 18-19 University Square

Religion and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland

Date: 23/01/2020
Time: 2:30PM - 3:45PM
Location: Room TR6, Graduate School, Queen's University Belfast

Rebel Music: Peace, Conflict and (Counter-) Culture Beyond the Troubles

Date: 9/12/2019
Time: 3:00PM - 4:30PM
Location: Room TR6, Graduate School, Queen's University Belfast

Bureaucracies in Transition

Date: 6/12/2019
Time: 9:00AM - 4:30PM
Location: Main Site Tower, Room 8.014, Queen's University Belfast

Sounding Conflict Symposium

Dates: 28/11/2019 - 29/11/2019
Time: 9:15AM - 5:45PM
Location: Sonic Lab, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Cloreen Park. QUB

Gandhi Against the Human Race, Mitchell Institute Speaker Event

Date: 15/11/2019
Time: 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Location: Old Staff Common Room, Queen's University, Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Fireside Chat - Commemoration and Social Memory in Northern Ireland - Deirdre MacBride

Date: 11/11/2019
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Common Room, Mitchell Institute, 18-19 University Square

An Evening with Damian Gorman

Date: 8/11/2019
Time: 8:00PM - 9:30PM
Location: Mitchell Institute Common Room, Queen’s University Belfast, 18-19 University Square

Book launch - Considering Grace: Presbyterians and the Troubles

Dates: 5/11/2019 -
Time: 12:30PM
Location: Presbyterian Church Assembly Buildings Conference Centre, Fisherwick Place, Belfast

Fireside Chat - Common Ground in Divided Communities - Jan King

Date: 30/10/2019
Time: 5:00PM - 6:00PM
Location: Common Room, Mitchell Institute, 18-19 University Square, Queen's University, Belfast

Fireside Chat -Community Activism in a Contested Society - Avila Kilmurray

Date: 4/11/2019
Time: 12:30PM - 1:30PM
Location: Common Room, Mitchell Institute, 18-19 University Square

Cultures of War and Peace in Afghanistan - Mitchell Institute Speaker Event

Date: 22/10/2019
Time: 4:15PM - 5:30PM
Location: Room TR6, Graduate School
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Professor Gerard Toal,Geopolitical Orientations in Russia’s Border States

Date: 22/10/2019
Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM
Location: Room 0G.006, Elmwood Building (Geography), Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Keynote Lecture: Thinking Alongside the Stranger You Imagine Hears You: A précis on method

Date: 4/10/2019
Time: 2:00PM - 5:00PM
Location: Canada Roon, QUB
Category: Conference / Symposium

When aid is not enough: integrating conflict prevention in humanitarian resilience programmes

Date: 21/10/2019
Time: 12:00PM - 1:30PM
Location: Old Staff Common Room, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Senator George J.Mitchell Peace Lecture 2019: Dr Mamphela Ramphele

Date: 8/10/2019
Time: 5:00PM - 7:30PM
Location: Canada Room & Council Chamber Queen's University Belfast University Road Belfast BT7 1NN
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Keynote Lecture: Anthropological Methods for documenting human rights violations and genocide

Date: 3/10/2019
Time: 5:30PM - 7:30PM
Location: Venue: Canada Room, QUB
Category: Conference / Symposium

Populism in New Media Democracies: the Case of Germany and the AfD

Date: 30/09/2019
Time: 3:00PM - 4:15PM
Location: Queen's University Belfast, Room 01/004, Main Site Tower
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

Renaissance of the Peace Process Conference. What kind of society do we need?

Date: 27/09/2019
Time: 9:30AM - 4:30PM
Location: Canada Room, Queen’s University Belfast
Category: Conference / Symposium

Constitutional Conversations Group

Date: 6/08/2019
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Mary’s University College
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

The Conversation about Irish Unity

Date: 7/08/2019
Time: 1:00PM - 2:30PM
Location: Mary’s University College
Category: Lecture / Talk / Discussion

New Romantics: Performing Ireland and Cosmopolitanism on the Anniversary of Human Rights

Dates: 4/07/2019 - 5/07/2019
Time: 1:00PM - 8:00PM
Location: Brian Friel Theatre, 20 University Square, Queen's University Belfast
Category: Conference / Symposium

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