2024
Professor Joe Duffy
Dr Erika Jiménez
The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice recently co-hosted a major international conference at Queen's 'Leaders Making Peace: Incentives towards Post-Conflict Peacebuilding'.
Report by Dr Síobhra Aiken & Dr Mark O’Rawe
Dr Tristan Sturm
Peyton Marone
Professor Brad R. Roth
Professor David Phinnemore
Professor Dina Belluigi
Dr Erika Jiménez
Professor Brian Dooley features in the latest LawPod podcast
Speaking Up and Pushing Back – Is There Space for Civic Resistance in Afghanistan?
By Professor Brian Dooley and Maya Fernandez-Powell
Anna Hollis (LINAS Doctoral Scholar, QUB)
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice Sabbatical Fellowships for 2024-25.
Dr Peter McLoughlin
Dr Peter McLoughlin
A podcast by Mitchell Institute Director Professor Richard English, on the arguments and approach of his new book Does Counter-Terrorism Work?
Yumi Omori is graduating today with a PhD in Sociology from the Mitchell Institute at Queen’s and a deep love for the island of Ireland after 10 years of living here.
Recording now available
Doha 3 Conference – Opportunity or Distraction
Queen's recently co-hosted two international Conferences in Belfast with the University of Notre Dame.
Seminar - 29 April 2024
Tomas McInerney
Anna Montgomery, Year 2 LINAS Doctoral Scholar
The RIA is an independent, all-island learned society which elects a small number of members each year for their distinguished contributions to scholarship and research.
Professor Katy Hayward
Professor Richard English
Have the Taliban Really Succeeded in Developing Sustainable Armed Forces for Afghanistan?
Dr Suzzanne Whitten
A critical response to plans for a ‘public history’ of British Policy in Northern Ireland during the Troubles
Professor Anna Bryson and Professor Louise Mallinder
Four academics from Queen's were recently invited speakers at a Yale University Colloquium, 'Building Peace Across Generations'.
Queen’s welcomed Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie G. Bunch III, for an ‘In Conversation’ discussion exploring the vital role museums play in dealing with difficult pasts and divided presents.
Queen’s hosted an event on ‘Policing and Politics in Divided Societies’ with guest speakers Dr Barbara Stephenson and Sir Hugh Orde
Professor Debbie Lisle
CALL FOR PAPERS - Movements and Their Discontents: Approaches to Contentious Politics and the Challenges to the Status Quo
Restorative, Transitional and Transformative Justice
Life in Struggle, a Conversation with Dr. Sima Samar
Queen’s hosted an event on ‘Policing and Politics in Divided Societies’ with guest speakers Dr Barbara Stephenson and Sir Hugh Orde
Exploring Taliban Political Culture – The Andiwal System or Taliban Comrade Networks
Martin Burns, MA on Conflict Transformation and Social Justice Graduate
A conversation between Shaimaa Abdelkarim (University of Birmingham) and Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick)
Does Counter-Terrorism Work?
Professor Muiris MacCarthaigh and PhD Candidate, Eoghan Kelly
Women and Peacebuilding: Reflections from Northern Ireland
Responding to Injustice Through Peaceful Interventions in Palestine
How Inclusive is the Islamic Emirate? - Who Are the Men Running the Taliban’s Administration?
Call for Applications
Dr Tristan Sturm, Mitchell Institute Fellow: Religion, Arts and Peacebuilding
Rather than promoting reconciliation, the conditional immunity scheme runs the risk of entrenching divided narratives of the past and undermining trust in public institutions says Professor Louise Malinder.
Professor Dina Belluigi, Mitchell Institute Fellow: Legacy
Darren Colbourne, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
Dr Jamie J. Hagen, Dr Samuel Ritholtz and Dr Andrew Delatolla
Religion, Politics, and the Orange Order in Northern Ireland: Defending Protestant Britain in the Age of Secularism
Martin Burns, MA on Conflict Transformation and Social Justice Graduate
Introducing Mitchell Institute Visiting Scholars Dr Nandita Banerjee Dhawan and Dr Asha Achuthan
Darren Colbourne, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics
Consumption and transmission of polarized information amongst young people in a divided society
Is Afghanistan Under the Taliban an Authoritarian State? And What Difference Does That Determination Make?
Professor Michael Semple
How it happened and what comes next
Reframing the Past and Imagining the Future of Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - The Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions (LINAS) Postgraduate Conference 2024
It is responses to non-state terrorism, rather than the brutal violence itself, which has tended to change history and politics the most, says Professor Richard English.
Modern “Derry Girls”: How Teens Navigate Polarization in a Post-conflict Society
Professor Gladys Ganiel and Dr Andrew R. Holmes
Is he running towards a career low?
Dr Jamie Hagen
Dr Marisa McVey
An All-Island Examination of Justice Responses to Historical/Non-recent Institutional Abuses
Institute Honorary Professor of Practice: Dr Brian Dooley, Senior Advisor at Human Rights First
Martin Burns, MA on Conflict Transformation and Social Justice Graduate
Christian Zionism and the Apocalyptic Landscape of Gaza
Institute Honorary Professor of Practice: Dr Brian Dooley, Senior Advisor at Human Rights First
Dr John Topping
The Political Theology of Traditionalism: Steve Bannon, the Far Right, and the End of Days
Can “the Ghosts of Religion Past” Rest in Peace? The Churches and Alternative Futures on the Island of Ireland
Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions Doctoral Scholar
Martin Burns, MA on Conflict Transformation and Social Justice Graduate
Dr Maria-Adriana Deiana
Afghanistan after the Americans, an overview of the Emirate and Afghan responses to it
