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How we Understand Conflict Prevention Shapes our Ability to Prevent
Mainstream approaches to understanding violent conflict have hindered the practice of conflict prevention at the local level says Professor David Connolly.
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It’s About Time the International Community Approaches Sexual Violence in the Invasion of Ukraine
Now is the right time to reframe conflict-related sexual violence as violence says Emily Mitchell-Bajic.
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Neil Jordan’s Michael Collins (1996): (Re)Imagining the ‘Post’-Conflict Nation on the Global Stage
In the final of three articles on the 100th anniversary of Michael Collins’ death, Claire Smith discusses the significance of the 1996 film for ‘post-conflict’ Ireland
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Remembering ‘Mick’: the contested legacies of Michael Collins, 1922-2022
In the second of three articles on the 100th anniversary of Michael Collins’ death, Dr Conleth McCloskey reflects on the commemorations and contested legacies of Collins
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How significant was the death of Michael Collins?
In this first of three articles on the 100th anniversary of Michael Collins’ death, Professor Marie Coleman reflects on how Irish history might have been different had the revolutionary leader lived
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Negotiating with militias and criminal groups: What the Colombian government negotiations with paramilitary groups can tell us about possible peace talks with Clan del Golfo/AGC
Militia and criminal groups in Colombia, excluded from previous peace agreements, have called a ceasefire. The new President Gustavo Petro has vowed to pursue “total peace” with these groups.
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The Significance of David Trimble’s Southern Protestant Ancestry
While the late David Trimble is most associated with Northern Ireland, an examination of his southern Protestant ancestry reveals much about the experience of the Protestant minority in the southern counties of Ireland in the early twentieth century.
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Moving in solidarity: Gendered and generational experiences in Northern Ireland
In Northern Ireland there is a strong tradition of political engagement through women’s coalitional work. But what working practices might promote exploration of an intergenerational feminist solidarity?
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Reflecting on Community-Engaged Scholarship in Canada
By Eaton Fellow Lucia Klencakova and guest contributor Dr. Matt Rogers from the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research.
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David Trimble was an unusual Ulster Unionist leader: academic, intellectual, and far-seeing
Emeritus Professor Graham Walker, Queen’s University Belfast, is author of A History of the Ulster Unionist Party: Protest, Pragmatism and Pessimism. In this article, he reflects on the political life of the late Lord David Trimble.