Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence

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The Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence is led by Dr. Niall Ó Dochartaigh of the School of Political Science and Sociology and NUI Galway. The Centre maintains strong links with the UCD School of Sociology and the Centre for War Studies at UCD and supports researchers working in the areas of conflict, reconciliation, and nationalism at NUI Galway. 

 

Niall Ó Dochartaigh, PhD

Director of the Centre for the Study of Nationalism and Organised Violence
Lecturer in Political Science and Sociology, NUI Galway

I started out as a historian, spending a year in Derry in 1987 doing research for an MA in history on Derry 'before the Troubles' under the supervision of Prof. Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh in Galway. The thesis looked at the origins of the civil rights movement and the conflict in the 1950s and 60s.

After spending a year in Berlin I started a PhD in politics at Queen's University Belfast with Prof. Paul Bew in 1990, looking at the escalation of conflict in the early 1970s. The thesis was published as the book 'From Civil rights to Armalites' (Cork UP 1997; Palgrave 2004). For a number of years I was concerned primarily with the online world, establishing the University of Ulster's 'Conflict Data Service' and writing two textbooks on Internet research (Sage 2002; 2007).  I have returned in the past few years to research on conflict.
I have published extensively on conflict, negotiation, territory and new technologies in a range of journals including the Journal of Peace Research, Political Geography, the International Journal of Conflict Management, Irish Political Studies, Mobilization, Identities, The Field Day Review and Contemporary British History. My principal interests are in conflict and territoriality, conflict and new technologies and attempts to moderate or resolve conflict. My main current research project analyses secret communication between the British government and the IRA in the Northern Ireland conflict. I have been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley; the Annenberg School for Communication, USC; the University of Auckland and the University of Otago. I am convener of the specialist group on Peace and Conflict of the Political Studies Association of Ireland and a college lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
For further information on Dr. Ó Dochartaigh and his work:
http://niallodoc.wordpress.com/
http://www.nuigalway.ie/soc/staff/odochartaigh_niall.html

Principal Investigator for IRCHSS project: The Mediated Settlement of Armed Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Bosnia-Herzegovina: Lessons for Conflict Resolution in African States Conflicts
  

Siniša Malešević  , PhD, MRIA
Professor and Head of the School of Sociology at University College Dublin.
Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

I joined the UCD School of Sociology in September 2011. Previously I was a senior lecturer at NUI, Galway, researcher at the Centre for the Study of Nationalism (Prague) working with the late Ernest Gellner, and at the Institute for International Relations (Zagreb). I also held visiting research fellowships at the London School of Economics and the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna). In March 2010 I was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. My main research interests include the comparative-historical and theoretical study of war and organised violence, ethnicity and nationalism, ideology, and sociological theory.
For further information on Prof. Maleðevi¿ and his work: http://www.ucd.ie/sociology/staff/profiles/malesevicsinisa 


Research Associate 

 
Stacey Scriver, PhD

In 2008, I completed my PhD from the School of Political Science and Sociology at NUI Galway, with a thesis entitled, Breaking the Mirror: Reflections of the American Neoliberal Subject and the Islamic Other. Since then, I have worked as a post-doctoral researcher in the School of Law and the Global Women’s Studies Programme at NUI Galway, and on research projects with the Rape Crisis Network Ireland and Trocaire, before joining CSNOV in 2012. My interests broadly span identity, ideology and conflict, with a particular focus on the intersection between nationalism, religion and political ideologies.

Visiting Fellows, 2011:

Prof. Paul Arthur of INCORE at the University of Ulster and Dr Katy Hayward of the School of Sociology and Social Policy at Queen's University Belfast were hosted at NUI Galway by CSNOV as staff exchange fellows and each spent a week here in August 2011 working with the project team. The presence of these academics at the centre fostered the exchange of ideas and knowledge on conflict resolution, in Ireland and beyond, and the development of a collaborative all-Ireland network of conflict researchers. 

Dr. Katy Hayward, Lecturer in Sociology, Queens University Belfast 

Prof. 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.



Current PhD Research Students:

•    Daniel Savery - (Nationalism, Liberalism and Republicanism)
•    Carol Staunton - (Genocide and Gender)
•    Judith O’Connell - (Socialisation of Nationalism)
•    Michael Martin - (Negotiating Peace and Mediating Settlement in Northern Ireland)

Completed PhD Students:

•    Deirdre McHugh (2011) Framing Political Violence: The Northern Ireland 'Troubles' in Irish television, 1968-72 (funded by a Government of Ireland doctoral fellowship)
•     Elizabeth Ball (2010) Truth, Power and Bloody Sunday: A study of the complementary and competing representations of the day in Paul Greengrass's Bloody Sunday, Jimmy McGovern's Sunday and the Saville Inquiry (funded by an Arts faculty fellowship)
•    Stacey Scriver Furlong (2008) on ideologies of neo-liberalism and Islamism (2008) (Lady Gregory fellowship Recipient)
•    Kevin Ryan (2005) on the narratives of social exclusion in Ireland (2005)
•    Brendan Sweeney (2005) on national myths in Sweden and Europe (2005)
•    Paul Murray (2003) Contested Borders and Minority Rights: The Partition of Ireland in Comparative Perspective (funded by a Government of Ireland doctoral fellowship)

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