Conflict, Rights and Security Cluster 

The cluster pools expertise from Sociology, Political Science, Anthropology, Psychology, Geography, Law and Human Rights to address aspects of the proliferation of violent conflict. It focuses on the comparative, theoretical and empirical study of conflict, rights and security with a distinct international perspective and aims to make a policy contribution in the field of conflict resolution.

The proliferation of organised violent conflict represents one of the most important challenges for the contemporary world. From the Middle East, central and east Africa to the Balkans, Caucasus, Central Asia and Northern Ireland violence and warfare have had devastating effects on social life. Since the end of the Second World War millions of individuals have lost their lives, entire towns and villages have been destroyed and many parts of the world still live with the tragic consequences of violent conflicts.

A number of NUI, Galway academics are at the forefront of the study of conflict and post-conflict situations. These individual academics have established global and national reputations in specialised fields of conflict studies including: transitional justice, genocide, sociology of organised violence, conflict resolution, peace keeping missions and negotiations, geopolitics, geo-economics, propaganda, ethnic conflict, nationalism and security.  However until recently there was relatively little intellectual dialogue and even less cross-school and cross-college collaboration on these research issues.

The principal aim of this research cluster is to pool this highly regarded expertise across the several disciplinary fields involved in order to establish a coherent, long-term research programme for the comparative study of conflict and post-conflict situations. This research consortium will focus on the interdisciplinary comparative, theoretical and empirical study of conflict, rights and security with a distinct international perspective.

Cluster Leaders: Drs. Niall Ó Dochartaigh and Shane Darcy

Cluster Members

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