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Upcoming Events:

 
’Armed Conflicts in Comparative Perspective’                                           

Date: 18 May, 2012
Venue: Aula Maxima, First Floor, NUI Galway ( poster)

This multidisciplinary conference brings together leading scholars working on aspects of armed conflict from a range of disciplinary perspectives. It addresses key issues of concern to sociologists, political scientists and historians studying inter-state wars, civil wars, armed conflicts, urban violence and insurgencies. Key themes include the micro and macro level dynamics of conflict, mobilisation into violence, territorial dimensions of conflict, perceptions of violence, negotiation, the mediated settlement of violent conflict and peace-building.

Speakers:
Prof. Eric Kauffman (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Prof. Kristine Höglund (Uppsala University)
Prof. Stathis Kalyvas (Yale)
Prof. Tom Lodge (University of Limerick)
Dr Niall Ó Dochartaigh (National University of Ireland Galway)
Prof. Siniša Maleševc (University College Dublin).
Prof. Brendan O'Leary (University of Pennsylvania)
Prof. Martin Shaw (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals/University of Sussex)
This one-day conference is supported by IRCHSS, the Moore Institute and the Centre for Innovation and Structural Change, NUI Galway.

To register for this event please contact: Stacey.scrivernuigalway.ie

'Talking Peace: Witness Seminar and Academic Symposium’

Talking Peace: A seminar on communication, contact and dialogue aimed at reducing or ending violence in Northern Ireland ( Poster)

Date: 16 May 2012, 10am - 5pm
Venue: Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway

The seminar brings together key actors with direct experience of mediation, negotiation and decision-making in the Irish peace process, including Sir Kenneth Bloomfield; Larry and Shauna Duddy; Dr. Maurice Hayes; Jim Gibney; Dr. Harold Good; Rev. Chris Hudson and Dr. Martin Mansergh.  Prof. Brendan O’Leary (University of Pennsylvania) will act as respondent.

The symposium in the afternoon brings participants in the witness seminar together with leading academics working on the politics of conflict and peace in Northern Ireland, including Prof. James McAuley (University of Huddersfield); Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (NUI Galway); Dr. Graham Spencer (University of Portsmouth); Dr. Katy Hayward (Queen’s University Belfast); Prof. Jonathan Tonge (University of Liverpool); Prof. Robert White (Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis).

The seminar is part of the Creativity at the Edge series, hosted by the Moore Institute at NUI Galway. It is supported by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Moore Institute and the School of Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway.

Organisers: Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh (NUI Galway), Prof. Ian McBride (King’s College London), and Prof Sean Ryder (NUI Galway).

Recent Events:

November 22nd, 2011: Negotiating Peace Symposium and the Official Launch of the Brendan Duddy Papers

The Brendan Duddy papers were launched at NUI Galway on Tuesday 22 of November, in association with a symposium on ’Negotiating Peace’ that brought together key figures from the media, academia and diplomacy to discuss negotiation in the Irish peace process.   
Speaking at the symposium was BBC investigative reporter Peter Taylor, one of the most experienced and respected journalists to have reported on Northern Ireland; Seán Ó hUiginn, a former senior Irish diplomat who was deeply involved in the Irish government contribution to the peace process; former senior British government official Michael Oatley, a central figure involved in attempts to negotiate a peaceful settlement of the Northern Ireland conflict; and Professor Paul Arthur, Honorary Associate at the International Conflict Research Centre (INCORE), former Professor of Politics and Director of the Graduate Programme in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster.

August 17th, 2011: Peace and Conflict Research In Ireland: Future Directions

Venue: NUI Galway
This workshop brought together participants from a range of Irish institutions on both sides of the border, including QUB, UL, DCU, UCD, TCD, UU and DkIT.

August 15th and 16th, 2011: Nations, States and Conflict,

Venue: Moore Institute; NUI, Galway
This workshop brought together 15 researchers working on nationalism and conflict, representing nearly every university in Ireland, to share knowledge and build networks and capacity.

June 17th, 2011: Annual London Irish Studies Seminar Symposium on the Provisional IRA

Niall Ó Dochartaigh was the co-organiser of the London Irish Studies Seminar with Ian McBride at King’s College London on the Provisional IRA. There was a vigorous and productive debate. Speakers included Brian Hanley (NUIM), Marc Mulholland (St Catherine’s College, Oxford), Maria Power (Liverpool), Peter McLoughlin (QUB), Neil Cobbett (National Archives) and Kevin Bean (Liverpool).

25-27 March, 2011: Wars and Nationalisms

Venue: McGill University, Montreal, Canada (jointly organised with the Department of Sociology, McGill University)
The main aim of this seminar of social scientists and historians was to examine social, political, economic and cultural conditions that shape the varied relationships between wars and nationalisms.

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