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Research Workshop: Does Counter-Terrorism Work?

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Date(s)
December 11, 2024
Location
Fellows’ Room, Mitchell Institute, 18 University Square, Queen's University Belfast
Time
13:00 - 14:00
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Speaker: Professor Richard English (QUB)
Chair: Professor Kieran McEvoy (QUB)

This Workshop will involve discussion of Richard English's Does Counter-Terrorism Work? (Oxford University Press, 2024).  Attendees are asked to read the book prior to the Workshop.  There will not be a talk by Professor English, but rather an hour of questions and discussion based on the book and on the themes raised by it.

 

Professor Richard English

Professor Richard English is Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast.  His latest book is Does Counter-Terrorism Work? (Oxford University Press, 2024).  Previous works include Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA (Pan Macmillan, 2003) and Does Terrorism Work? A History (Oxford University Press, 2016). Richard is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.  In 2018 he was awarded a CBE for services to the understanding of modern-day terrorism and political history.  In 2019 he was awarded the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal in the Social Sciences.

 

Professor Kieran McEvoy

Professor Kieran McEvoy is the Senator George J. Mitchell Chair in Peace, Security and Justice at the Mitchell Institute and a Professor of Law and Transitional Justice in the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast.  His research interests include human rights, transitional justice, restorative justice, prisons, apologies, armed groups and the role of lawyers. 

He is a Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.  He has authored or co-authored four books, co-edited eight books or special issues and over seventy journal articles and scholarly book chapters. 

He has been Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on 10 UKRI-funded projects and is currently a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2023-26) working on the role of apologies and acknowledgement in addressing past violence and human rights abuses.

 

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