Speaker - Professor Paul Dixon, Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London

Professor Paul Dixon is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of 'Performing the Northern Ireland Peace Process: In Defence of Politics' (Palgrave 2018). Paul researches Peace and War and uses a theatrical metaphor to understand the dynamics of politics. He is currently researching a book provisionally entitled, 'Warrior Nation: War, Militarisation and British Democracy'.

Discussant - Mark Durkan, former Deputy First Minister and former Leader of SDLP