On the twentieth anniversary of the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, and amid the crisis there in 2021, expert analysis is vital.

Episode 1 - Afghanistan 2021 - Professor Michael Semple and Professor Richard English.

Professor Michael Semple talks to The Hindu for their In Focus Podcast on “Have the Taliban Changed?

Professor Semple comments on the the Taliban's ban on girls from secondary education in Afghanistan.

Professor Semple comments on the choices of the Taliban cabinet.

'Michael Semple on the Unravelling of Afghanistan’

The fourth annual LINCS Conference took place on 16th and 17th June 2021.

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

The book launch and the lecture was held on 12 May 2021 for the Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development.

This lecture uses data from research on male and female ex-combatants in Northern Ireland, Republican and Loyalist, to address the moral claims to legitimacy they make to render their decision to engage in violence as rational and inevitable.

Dr Dina Zoe Belluigi of Queen’s University and Dr Fateh Shaban of the Academic Centre for Development and Peace Studies, in Turkey discuss the work of the Council for At Risk Academics (Cara).

Congratulations to our brilliant QUB_LINCS team who were semi-finalists in the Atlantic Council 4th Annual Virtual Cyber 9/12 UK Strategy Challenge on 16 and 17 February 2021.

Thirty funded doctoral scholarships announced by Queen’s University Belfast are set to provide a unique opportunity to explore the challenges of Artificial intelligence (AI) for every area of science and society.

Call for papers - Virtual Conference 29th-30th July 2021

This free event will take place on Tuesday 26 January at 12 noon via Zoom, lasting approximately one and a half hours.

Mitchell Institute Honorary Professor of Practice Rory Montgomery last week published the attached article in a special issue of the Royal Irish Academy’s Irish Studies in International Affairs.

Well done to John Morison for leading on a successful application for funding for a new Doctoral Training Centre (DTC) to be known as the ‘Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions’ (LINAS).

Dr James Waller, Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College and former Visiting Professor and graduate of Mitchell Institute Winter School, reflects on the escalating risk of mass violence in the United States.

Congratulations to Mitchell Institute visiting researcher Dickson Ajisafe, who has been awarded a Global Digital Fellowship by the World Society Foundation, Switzerland and Council for European Studies, Columbia University, New York (WSF-CES).

Mitchell Institute Practitioner Chair Michael Semple updates on the prospects of peace in Afghanistan in his article 'Terrorism and Peace in Afghanistan'.

BEYOND BORDERS supports research about borders and boundaries in past and present times. It promotes interdisciplinary exchange in the social sciences and humanities.

The Durham Global Security Institute has recently advertised a Teaching Fellow position which might be of interest.

GRI Fellow Dr Satish Kumar recently organised a webinar to mark the 150 anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth.

Mitchell Institute Distinguished Professorial Fellow Richard English wins the 2020 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal

Dr Murphy's latest book is called 'Management and War'.

The Mitchell Institute and Artios Global have just completed a year-long research collaboration funded by ESRC and InvestNI on societal impacts of mining and de-mining.

Many congratulations to Prof Kieran McEvoy and Dr Anna Bryson on their most recent AHRC funding application success. Their new project 'Enhancing Democratic Habits' will carry out an oral history of the Law Centres movement.

Prof Kieran McEvoy is a leading figure internationally on societies transitioning from conflict, most notably on issues such as dealing with the past, human-rights protections and reparations.

First two episodes available here.

The Webinar on the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) and Reports on Peacebuilding are available online!

The recorded presentations from the 'True' Stories Virtual Conference are now available online!

The presentation on ‘Management and War: How Organisations Navigate Conflict and Build Peace' by Dr Joanne Murphy is available online.

Visiting research fellow Dr Birgit Schippers has just published her new book, The Routledge Handbook to Rethinking Ethics in International Relations.

Jonathan Powell and Rory Montgomery were ‘In Conversation’ with Richard English in a QUB-TCD event in The Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin on Monday 18 May 2020.

The Mitchell Institute's student-produced podcast, MPod, is now available online!

Call for Papers for The Annual Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Postgraduate Student Conference

The DfE Studentships are funded by the Department for the Economy (DFE), formerly Department for Employment and Learning (DEL).

Remembering Northern Ireland’s Past through Unique, Uniting & Undisclosed Narratives

Elizabeth Charash has won the 2019 Sídh Prize (academic year 2018-2019) from the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions.

Visiting research fellow Dr Birgit Schippers addressed a recent meeting of the Council of Europe Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy in Strasbourg, where she spoke on the need for democratic governance of artificial intelligence (AI).

Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Cybersecurity and Society (LINCS) at Queen’s University Belfast has been established to support pioneering research at the interface between the social sciences and electronic engineering & computer science.

Lecture Notes from the Annual Peace Lecture delivered by Dr Mamphela Ramphele.

Mitchell Institute Senior Research Fellow Dr Eva Urban has published her latest book La Philosophie des Lumières dans le Théâtre Breton: Tradition et Influences (Enlightenment Philosophy in Breton Theatre: Tradition and Influences)

A Visiting Researcher at the Mitchell Institute highlights some of the Human Rights concerns regarding facial recognition technology.

A former student of Queen's University has won a postgraduate essay prize from the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religion's.

Crossing the divide: promoting confidence in contact in a diverse world

Institute Senior Research Fellow, Dr Zaheer Kazmi, will be a Visiting Fellow at the CERI (Centre for International Studies), Sciences Po, Paris in July.