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We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice Sabbatical Fellowships for 2025-26.
Professor Marsha Henry
Professor Brian Dooley
Dr Ronit Berger-Hobson

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed
Lord John Alderdice
Professor Eric Morier-Genoud
Dr Ulrike M. Vieten
Dr Garrett Carr
Patrick Thompson
Dr Allely Albert

Zoha Siddiqui
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Dr Eithne Dowds

Ambassador Akbar Ahmed

Eitan Godsi

Reflections on (re)connecting and (re)searching as a Visiting Student at the Mitchell Institute

Working Paper

Professor Cynthia Enloe

Emma DeSouza
Dr Allely Albert
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Professor Fiona Magowan


Feuds, job cuts and morality policing – latest developments in the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate and the Afghan response

We welcome Michael H. C. McDowell OBE to the Mitchell Institute as a Visiting Scholar


Damien Rea

Lucy Kentish

Professor Michael Maguire



Samantha Darrah, Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions Doctoral Scholar

Professor Marsha Henry

Dr Joceyln Dautel


Dr Lauren Dempster

Professor Louise Mallinder

Professor Kieran McEvoy

Professor Melanie Cammett

Dr Alice Panepinto

Professor Brian Dooley

Dr Keira Williams

Dr Lauren Dempster

Dr Emanuel Quashie


Professor Brian Dooley

Professor Brian Dooley

Professor Louise Mallinder

Professor Louise Mallinder and Professor Anna Bryson

Professor Louise Mallinder

Dr Ulrike M. Vieten


Dr Teresa Degenhardt


The Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions (LINAS) Doctoral Training Programme

Dr Gail McConnell

Dr Javier Argomaniz (University of St Andrews)

Queen’s recently hosted a Colloquium exploring the political thought of the principal architects of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, John Hume and Lord David Trimble.

Call for Applications

Professor Anne-Marie McAlinden


Unprecedented? The latest Taliban in-fighting and what it tells us about the state of the Emirate

Martin Burns


Dr Lauren Dempster

Dr Véronique Altglas


Dylan Magill, Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions Doctoral Scholar

Professor Cheryl Lawther


Professor Brian Dooley


Professor Brian Dooley


We were delighted to welcome Elina Valtonen MP, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Finland, to Queen’s University Belfast to deliver the 10th Harri Holkeri Lecture on 3 March 2025.

Reforming Legal and Policy Responses to Investigating and Prosecuting Sexual Violence

Dr Andrew Thomson


Evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee


Does Customary international Law Prohibit Amnesties?


Dr Olivier Urbain

Professor Dina Belluigi

Dr Eithne Dowds

An Alternative Vision Amidst the Dominance of Sinn Féin

Dr Peter McLoughlin

Comprehensive Training Manual on the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention)

Dr John Topping

Professor Michael Semple

Professor John D. Brewer

‘Many look to Northern Ireland for hope’: how a Belfast university became a world leader in conflict resolution

The Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions (LINAS) Doctoral Training Programme

Joshua Weston, Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions Doctoral Scholar

Motherhood During and After ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland


Call for Applications

Emirate Studies – What Every Talib is Meant to Know About Their Movement

Decolonial, Feminist and Anti-Militarist Theorising on Peacekeeping

Professor David Cunningham

Professor John McGarry

How Russia Targeted and Killed Human Rights Defender Tigran Galustyan in Ukraine

The Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions (LINAS) Doctoral Training Programme

Dr Erika Jiménez

Dr Des O'Rawe

Revisiting the ‘Impossibility’ of restorative justice and security informalism

Dr Maria-Adriana Deiana

Professor Marsha Henry



Dr Ciaran Mulholland and Dr Michael Duffy

Siddhi Salunke

MA Conflict Transformation and Social Justice

Dr Susie Deedigan

Dr Deirdre MacBride

Northern Ireland: The Pat Finucane Case

Professor Brian Dooley

Dr David Robb

Professor Louise Mallinder

Professor Brice Dickson

Decolonial, Feminist and Anti-Militarist Theorising on Peacekeeping

Marc Elliott, LINAS Doctoral Scholar

Dr Yumi Omori

Professor Cheryl Lawther


Dr Ciaran Mulholland and Dr Michael Duffy

Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions

Michael Maguire, Honorary Professor of Practice

Dr Síobhra Aiken

Professor Sumi Madhok, London School of Economics and Political Science


Ambassador Akbar S. Ahmed


Strengthening Afghans’ Pursuit of Democracy, Freedom and Economic Recovery



Leverhulme Interdisciplinary Network on Algorithmic Solutions

How Serious are the Taliban on Counter-narcotics Policy?


Professor Kieran McEvoy

Dr Erika Jiménez

Katherine Pittalis, LINAS Doctoral Scholar

Professor Brian Dooley, Honorary Professor of Practice

Dr Garrett Carr

Dr Jocelyn Dautel

Dr Peter McLoughlin

Professor Richard English

Dr Liam O’Hare

Dr Ciaran Mulholland and Dr Michael Duffy

Dr Eva Urban-Devereux

Professor Dina Belluigi

Dr Marisa McVey and Anna Montgomery

The Taliban’s Relations with Afghanistan’s Tough Region
