2024


Professor Joe Duffy

Dr Erika Jiménez

The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice recently co-hosted a major international conference at Queen's 'Leaders Making Peace: Incentives towards Post-Conflict Peacebuilding'.

Report by Dr Síobhra Aiken & Dr Mark O’Rawe

Dr Tristan Sturm


Professor Brad R. Roth

Professor David Phinnemore

Professor Dina Belluigi

Dr Erika Jiménez

Professor Brian Dooley features in the latest LawPod podcast

Speaking Up and Pushing Back – Is There Space for Civic Resistance in Afghanistan?

By Professor Brian Dooley and Maya Fernandez-Powell




We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice Sabbatical Fellowships for 2024-25.

Dr Peter McLoughlin

Dr Peter McLoughlin

A podcast by Mitchell Institute Director Professor Richard English, on the arguments and approach of his new book Does Counter-Terrorism Work?
Yumi Omori is graduating today with a PhD in Sociology from the Mitchell Institute at Queen’s and a deep love for the island of Ireland after 10 years of living here.



Doha 3 Conference – Opportunity or Distraction

Queen's recently co-hosted two international Conferences in Belfast with the University of Notre Dame.





Seminar - 29 April 2024

Tomas McInerney


The RIA is an independent, all-island learned society which elects a small number of members each year for their distinguished contributions to scholarship and research.


Professor Katy Hayward


Have the Taliban Really Succeeded in Developing Sustainable Armed Forces for Afghanistan?

Dr Suzzanne Whitten

A critical response to plans for a ‘public history’ of British Policy in Northern Ireland during the Troubles

Professor Anna Bryson and Professor Louise Mallinder


Four academics from Queen's were recently invited speakers at a Yale University Colloquium, 'Building Peace Across Generations'.


Queen’s welcomed Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lonnie G. Bunch III, for an ‘In Conversation’ discussion exploring the vital role museums play in dealing with difficult pasts and divided presents.

Queen’s hosted an event on ‘Policing and Politics in Divided Societies’ with guest speakers Dr Barbara Stephenson and Sir Hugh Orde


CALL FOR PAPERS - Movements and Their Discontents: Approaches to Contentious Politics and the Challenges to the Status Quo


Restorative, Transitional and Transformative Justice

Life in Struggle, a Conversation with Dr. Sima Samar



Queen’s hosted an event on ‘Policing and Politics in Divided Societies’ with guest speakers Dr Barbara Stephenson and Sir Hugh Orde

Exploring Taliban Political Culture – The Andiwal System or Taliban Comrade Networks

Martin Burns, MA on Conflict Transformation and Social Justice Graduate


A conversation between Shaimaa Abdelkarim (University of Birmingham) and Nicola Pratt (University of Warwick)

Does Counter-Terrorism Work?

Professor Muiris MacCarthaigh and PhD Candidate, Eoghan Kelly


Women and Peacebuilding: Reflections from Northern Ireland




Responding to Injustice Through Peaceful Interventions in Palestine

How Inclusive is the Islamic Emirate? - Who Are the Men Running the Taliban’s Administration?







Dr Tristan Sturm, Mitchell Institute Fellow: Religion, Arts and Peacebuilding


Rather than promoting reconciliation, the conditional immunity scheme runs the risk of entrenching divided narratives of the past and undermining trust in public institutions says Professor Louise Malinder.

Professor Dina Belluigi, Mitchell Institute Fellow: Legacy

Darren Colbourne, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Dr Jamie J. Hagen, Dr Samuel Ritholtz and Dr Andrew Delatolla

Religion, Politics, and the Orange Order in Northern Ireland: Defending Protestant Britain in the Age of Secularism

Martin Burns, MA on Conflict Transformation and Social Justice Graduate

Introducing Mitchell Institute Visiting Scholars Dr Nandita Banerjee Dhawan and Dr Asha Achuthan

Darren Colbourne, School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics

Consumption and transmission of polarized information amongst young people in a divided society


Is Afghanistan Under the Taliban an Authoritarian State? And What Difference Does That Determination Make?


Professor Michael Semple


How it happened and what comes next

Reframing the Past and Imagining the Future of Post-Brexit Northern Ireland

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS - The Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions (LINAS) Postgraduate Conference 2024


It is responses to non-state terrorism, rather than the brutal violence itself, which has tended to change history and politics the most, says Professor Richard English.

Modern “Derry Girls”: How Teens Navigate Polarization in a Post-conflict Society


Professor Gladys Ganiel and Dr Andrew R. Holmes

Is he running towards a career low?

Dr Jamie Hagen

Dr Marisa McVey

An All-Island Examination of Justice Responses to Historical/Non-recent Institutional Abuses

Institute Honorary Professor of Practice: Dr Brian Dooley, Senior Advisor at Human Rights First

Martin Burns, MA on Conflict Transformation and Social Justice Graduate

Christian Zionism and the Apocalyptic Landscape of Gaza

Institute Honorary Professor of Practice: Dr Brian Dooley, Senior Advisor at Human Rights First

Dr John Topping

The Political Theology of Traditionalism: Steve Bannon, the Far Right, and the End of Days

Can “the Ghosts of Religion Past” Rest in Peace? The Churches and Alternative Futures on the Island of Ireland

Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions Doctoral Scholar

Martin Burns, MA on Conflict Transformation and Social Justice Graduate

Dr Maria-Adriana Deiana


Afghanistan after the Americans, an overview of the Emirate and Afghan responses to it