Power, Conflict and Ideologies

Cluster Projects

Ongoing and intensifying research cooperation within this area proceeds alongside the highly successful and productive pursuit of individual research topics. The future directions of such individual research involve topics such as: political activism online, conflict and territory, relations between social order, marginality, exclusion and welfare, the everyday forms of nationalism, power, modernity and liberalism.

As a part of this research stream the School was involved in the organisation of several international workshops and conferences involving the participation of some of the world’s leading sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists. For example, the cluster members organised a highly successful international conference, The Social and Political Relevance of Gellner's Thought Today in May 2005.

Through its collaborative work with the IPSA’s research committee on power, the Routledge Journal of Power - which is edited from the School - and numerous books and articles, staff associated with this core research area have gradually established international reputations for high quality theoretical and sociological studies of power, conflict and ideologies. In addition, a remarkably prolific research output in areas such as ethnic conflict, theories of ethnicity and nationalism, populism, neo-liberalism, human rights and international politics, and the politics of welfare and order indicate that this research area remains one of the School’s key and evolving assets.

The Mediated Settlement of Armed Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Lessons for Conflict Resolution in African States - The IRCHSS Research Development Initiative and the Department of Foreign Affairs have awarded a research grant to Dr. Sinisa Malesevic (PI), Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Prof. Bill Schabas, and Prof. Tom Lodge from UL for a project entitled 'The Mediated Settlement of Armed Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Lessons for Conflict Resolution in African States? worth ca 48,000 Euros. This project is a result of a joint initiative between UL and NUI Galway. The project involves participants from the School of Political Science and Sociology and the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway and the Department of Politics and Public Administration at UL.

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