Staff

Eilís Ward

Lecturer

Second Year BA Co-ordinator

BA (Political Science and Sociology & Philosophy), Univeristy College Galway
MA (International Relations) Northeastern University (Boston, Mass., USA)
PhD (International Relations), Trinity College Dublin

Office: 327 Arus Moyola
Telephone: Telephone: 00 353 91 492108
Email: eilis.wardnuigalway.ie

Member of the Power, Conflict and Ideologies Research Cluster. Secondary: the Gender, Empowerment and Globalisation Research Cluster

Profile

I have taught in NUIG, Univerity of Limerick, TCD, Dublin, Villanova University, Philadelphia and Northeastern University, Boston in the areas of international relations, politics and women’s studies, I have worked in a consultancy and operational capacity internationally (East Timor, Central Asia and Central America) and I have been an activist in the Irish women’s movement and in international solidarity movements. I am a founder member of the Irish Network for Studies in Buddhism (INSB).

Teaching

Courses taught 2009:

International Relations (SP234)
Women’s Human Rights (SP617)
Buddhism, Politics and Society (3 BA)
Introduction to Politics and Sociology (1 BA)

Research Interests

My two main research interests are 1) cosmopolitanism and Buddhist social theory as applied in the context of normative international relations theory and 2) prostitution and sex trafficking from a policy and human rights perspective.

Selected Publications

Edited Books

Ireland in International Affairs: Interests, Institutions, and Identities (Essays in Honour of Professor Patrick Keatinge), Eilís Ward & Ben Tonra (eds.) IPA, Dublin, 2002.  >> View on Google Books.

Contesting Politics: Women in Ireland, North and South, Yvonne Galligan, Eilís Ward & Rick Wilford (Eds.) Westview/PSAI Press, Boulder and Dublin, 1999.

Book chapters/Journal articles/Monographs

“Prostitution and the Irish State: From prohibitionism to a globalised sex trade”, Irish Political Studies, Winter 2009 (forthcoming).

This article plots and analyses the development of policy towards prostitution from the foundation of the Irish state up to the contemporary period using three regime-types: prohibitionism, abolitionism and regulationism. It argues that state policy has been inconsistent over time and that recent (globalised) practices in the sex trade may have put prostitution largely beyond the reach of state policy.

“Lap-Dancing and Red Light Milieu: Conceptualising the Context for Sex-trafficking into Ireland” (with Gillian Wylie) in Wylie, G., and Mac Redmond, P., (eds.), Human Trafficking in Europe: Character, Causes, Consequences (Palgrave McMillan, forthcoming).

This chapter explores the causality argument made in relation to a sex-trade and sex trafficking by exploring the context of lapdancing in Ireland. It argues that while a red light milieu (demand) acts as a pull (supply), the location of women in lap dancing is more complex that simplistic causality relationships allow and it concludes by arguing for evidence-driven policy change and innovation rather than policy-driven research.

2009 "Compassion in Buddhist Peace Work: conceptualising peace in a different key”, Inter-Disciplinary Net (E-Journal) Proceedings of 6th Global Conference War Virtual War and Human Security, Bob Brecher (ed.), Inter-disciplinary Press, Oxford.

This article argues that using Buddhist conceptualisations as resources suggests a reconceptualisation of peace, based on an exploration of how compassion is conceived by Buddhist peace activists in Cambodia, locating compassion within a wider Buddhist ontology and social theory. The paper draws on fieldwork carried out in Cambodia in 2008.

2007 The Nature and Extent of Trafficking of Women into Ireland for the Purposes of Sexual Exploitation 2000 – 2006: A report from findings (with Gillian Wylie), SSRS Research Papers and Reports, No. 39, SSRC, NUI Galway.

2006 “Real or Illusory Progress? Electoral Quotas and Women’s Political Participation in Tanzania, Eritrea and Uganda” in Trócaire Development Review 2006, Trócaire: Dublin, pps 73-97.

2006 “Security and Asylum: The Case of Hanna Greally” in Studies Irish Review, Vol. 95, No. 377: Dublin, pps 65- 76.

2006 ’Human flourishing in contested Space: citizenship studies ab initio” in Ross, Alistair (ed.), Teaching Citizenship: Proceedings of the seventh conference of the CICE Thematic Network, Institute of Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University: London. pps 537- 543

2003 Women’s Political Space: Women and Affirmative Action in Parliamentary Politics in Eritrea, Tanzania and Uganda, with Joy Kwisega, Madanda and Nite Tanzarn (University of Makerere), British Council, Uganda.

2002 ’Irish Foreign Policy: The Human Rights Dimension’, in David Schmitt and William Crotty (eds.), Ireland on the World Stage, Longman, pps 153-167.

2001 ’East Timor in the context of EU/Indonesian Relations’ with Peter Carey, in Indonesia in the Malay World, SOAS, University of London.

2000 ’Ireland’s Refugee Policies’: A Critical Overview’ in The Irish Human Rights Review, Denis O’Driscoll, (ed.) Roundhall Sweet and Maxwell, Dublin, pps 157-175

2000. ’The Local Meets the Global: East Timor and Ireland’s Presidency of the EU” in Paul Hainsworth and Stephen McCloskey (eds.), The East Timor Question: The Struggle for Independence, IB Taurus, London, pps 151-164.

Supervision of Research

Select List of recent MA Supervision

“An Exploration of the Family Group Conference Model and Process within Education”,
for MA in |Family Support Studies, Brigid Golden, 2007.

“State Responses to Women being Trafficked into Ireland for the Sex Industry: A Role
for Social Work?”, Elizabeth Cleary, MA in Social Work, 2007.

“Mother of Peace Community Zimbabwe: A Case Study of Childcare Provision”, for MA
in Community Development, Margaret Cleary, 2007.

“Is Community Formation Possible for the Asylum Seekers of Ireland? An Exploration of
the Role of Community Development and the Impact of Direct Provision”, for
MA in Community Development, Gillian Barden, 2006.

“Caitlín Maud: Spéirbhean Chonamara”, for MA in Women’s Studies, Mairéad
Breathnach, 2004.

“Eithne Strong: A Glimpse into the Extraordinary Life of an Irish Female Poet” for MA
in Women’s Studies, Ann O’Connell, 2004.

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