Dr.  Kathleen Cavanaugh

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Kathleen Cavanaugh is currently a Lecturer of International Law in the Faculty of Law, Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR), National University of Ireland, Galway. She holds a LL.M (Distinction) from the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland (1998), and PhD in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics & Political Science (1997). She has held several Visiting Lectureships including: Visiting Research Fellow, Minerva Centre for Human Rights, Hebrew University, Israel (2001), and Visiting Lecturer, Department of International Relations, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA (1998) and was awarded a Fellowship at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford (2006-7).  

Her publications and current research agenda, academic interests and specialisation includes: the study of nationalism, ethnic conflict, political violence, applicable human rights laws in entrenched/states of emergency and the laws of belligerent occupation (IHL).   Her current projects includes a manuscript with Oxford University Press entitled Minority Rights in the Middle East as well as an additional monograph entitled Militant Democracy which investigates the exclusion radicalisation thesis, focussing on the Muslim community in the UK.  She held the position of Chair of the Executive Committee of Amnesty International Ireland (2004-2010) and was a member of the International Policy Committee of Amnesty International.  As a consultant, she has undertaken numerous missions on behalf of Amnesty International including to Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and more recently, to Iraq (where she focussed on the conduct of the occupying powers with relation to detention and security).  She has conducted trainings for governmental as well as non-governmental organisations throughout the Middle East (Yemen, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, and Sudan), India, and the Republic of Ireland.

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