Author: Dr Peter Doran
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The End of “The World” as we’ve known it – Ukraine, the US and New Importance of Irish Neutrality in a Chastened European Union
By Dr Peter Doran, School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast,
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Navigating Complexity and Societal Trauma: Towards a new constitutional moment on the island of Ireland
The role of trauma is a central mediator of the connection that individuals make with collective or societal narratives says Dr Peter Doran.
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Re-imagining the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement 2.0: Cultivating an emergent future we have not yet dared to imagine
It is time perhaps to wholeheartedly embrace the essential and symbiotic role of each of all three strands of the Belfast Agreement as the DNA of a positive peace says Dr Peter Doran.
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Big Data Meets the Attention Economy
In a specially extended article, Dr Peter Doran references the recent Cambridge Analytica fallout and looks at how the battle for our attention is fast becoming the defining problem of our time.
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The Nordic Council: a model for British-Irish cooperation?
Dr Peter Doran and Dr Katy Hayward highlight how it’s time to realise the scope of an ambitious vision for British-Irish cooperation inspired by the Nordic Council.
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McMindfulness: Buddhism as sold to you by neoliberals
When stripped of its ethics and emphasis on community, mindfulness actually slots scarily well into the neoliberal mindset says Dr Peter Doran.
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Putting wellbeing at the heart of governance in Northern Ireland
Academics from the School of Law have been working with the Carnegie UK Trust and others from government, industry and wider civic society to propose a new ‘wellbeing framework’ for Northern Ireland, exploring how the concept of wellbeing can be used to promote social change.