Research Fellows
- Iain Atack
- Rosemary Byrne
- Andrew Finlay
- Gladys Ganiel
- Linda Hogan
- Anne Holohan
- John Horne
- Alan Kramer
- Ronit Lentin
- Geraldine Smyth
- Etain Tannem
- David Tombs
Iain Atack
Iain Atack holds degrees in philosophy, politics and peace studies from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Toronto and the University of Ulster. He is Coordinator of the M.Phil. programme in International Peace Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin and teaches courses on “Conflict Resolution and Nonviolence”, “The Politics of Development” and “The Politics of Peace and Conflict”. He is the author of The Ethics of Peace and War (Edinburgh University Press, 2005) and journal articles on various aspects of nonviolence, peacebuilding and development ethics. He is a member of the board of Afri (Action from Ireland), an Irish peace and human rights NGO. He is also an active member of the Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka.
Email tel.: 3531 260 0350
Rosemary Byrne
Rosemary Byrne is the Director of the Centre for Post-Conflict Justice. She holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and is a senior lecturer in international and human rights law at Trinity College Dublin as well a Human Rights Commissioner for the Irish Commission for Human Rights. Her research relates to the dynamics of both justice and protection for victims of international crimes, focussing on the fields of international criminal and refugee law. She set up the International Process and Justice Project, which has observed the on-going trials at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda over a two year period. She has delivered papers and lectured on human rights in 20 countries, and conducted human rights training for the Council of Europe and the Helsinki Committee. Her research on international trial practice has been presented several times to the judges of the international criminal tribunals as well as at the International Criminal Court and she is currently working on a book on the implications of globalization for the trying of international crimes. She has served as the Editor-in-Chief for the first five editions of the Refugee Law Reader: Cases Documents and Materials, a ‘living casebook’ on refugee protection. The Reader has adapted versions in French, Russian and Spanish and is used on several continents for teaching, training and research. Rosemary Byrne has worked with a range of international and Irish non-governmental organizations and has been a Government of Ireland Research Fellow and a Visiting Fellow at the Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School.
Email tel: 353 1 896 1201
Andrew Finlay
Andrew Finlay lectures in sociology and has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from University College London. He grew up in north Belfast through the conflict and his academic interests evolved out of his involvement in a variety of initiatives aimed at combating sectarianism in the workplace and in the community sponsored by the trade unions and the Workers Education Association. Two of the various funded research projects he has been involved should be mentioned here: the 'Cost of the Troubles' study and the Global Networks Project. He has authored more than thirty chapters and articles, many relating to ethnic conflict, and is editor of 'Nationalism and Multiculturalism: Irish Identity, Citizenship and the Peace Process' (LIT Verlag 2004). He is currently working on a monograph entitled 'Governing Ethnic Conflict: Consociation, Identity and the Price of Peace', which will be published by Routledge in 2010. Dr. Finlay is Chair of the Anthropological Association of Ireland, 2008-2010.
Contact: arfinlay@tcd.ie, tel: 353 1 896 2353
Gladys Ganiel
Gladys Ganiel received her Ph.D. at University College Dublin in 2005. She has been a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Cape Town and the University of Zimbabwe. Currently she is lecturing in Reconciliation Studies at the Belfast campus of the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. Her research areas include religion and the Northern Ireland conflict, religion and reconciliation in Zimbabwe and South Africa, congregational studies, and qualitative research methods. She has written a book, Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland, and published in journals such as Sociology of Religion, Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and Journal of Peace Research. She teaches courses on Conflict and Collective Identity, Reconciliation in Northern Ireland, and Social Research Methods.
Contact: gganiel@tcd.ie, tel: 44 (0) 28 9037 3988
Linda Hogan
Linda Hogan is Professor of Ecumenics and currently Head of School at the School of Religions, Theology and Ecumenics. In 2007 she became a Fellow of Trinity College. She is a theological ethicist with research and teaching interests in the fields of politics and human rights. Specialising in Christian social ethics, intercultural ethics, and the ethics of gender her most recent publications include two edited collections, one with research student Dylan Lee Lehrke entitled Religion and the Politics of Peace and Conflict, (Princeton Theological Monographs, 2009) and Applied Ethics in a World Church (Orbis, 2008) as well as essays on the role of the arts in teaching about the ethics of war and on the ethical issues arising from the concept of neutrality in humanitarianism.
She has been the Principal Investigator on a number of funded research projects including currently ‘Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism: Diversity, Dialogue & Reconciliation’ (IRCHSS), Health Policy Formation in a Christian Culture with Religious Minorities, (HRB, Adelaide Hospital Society, Tallaght Hospital) and The Ethical Implications of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in the Developing World (Higher Education Funding Council, UK). She has been involved in the development of two major interdisciplinary research centres: The European Association for Catholic Social Thought located at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds. She currently sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal of Society of Christian Ethics USA, and of Feminist Theory. She was a member of the Irish Council for Bioethics from 2005 - 2008.
Contact: lhogan2@tcd.ie, tel: 353 1 206 0352
Anne Holohan
Anne Holohan is lecturer in Sociology. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, the London School of Economics and the University of California, Los Angeles, her research and teaching interests include organizations, information and communication technologies, media and communications, conflict resolution and disaster management, and globalization. Her most recent book is Networks of Democracy (Stanford, 2005). Until January 2006 she was Marie Curie International Fellow at the University of Trento, Italy.
Contact: aholohan@tcd.ie, tel: 353 1 896 1478
John Horne
John Horne is Professor of Modern European History and the Director of the Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin. He earned his D.Phil at the University of Sussex. He has authored nearly seventy chapters and articles, many relating to the history of war. His books include, Labour at War. France and Britain, 1914-1918, (Clarendon Press, 1991) His study (with Alan Kramer), German Atrocities, 1914. A History of Denial (Yale, 2001) was translated into German (2003) and French (2005). He is currently editing the Blackwell Companion to the First World War and his edited volume, State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War (Cambridge, 1997), has just appeared in Chinese (Beijing Institute of Technology Press, 2008). He is a member of the Executive Board of the Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne. He also serves on the advisory boards of the Mémorial de Verdun and the Liberty Memorial National World War One Museum in Kansas City.
Contact: jhorne@tcd.ie, tel: 353 1 896 1101
Alan Kramer
Alan Kramer is Professor of European History and his research interests are the history of Continental Europe in the era of the First World War, especially focusing on the analysis of military violence, political violence, the relationship between armed forces and civilians/non-combatants, war crimes, and prisoners of war, in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. He earned his Dr. phil. from the University of Hamburg. During the last two decades he has been at the forefront of the development of the cultural history and the history of mentalities of the First World War; in 2001 he published with his co-author John Horne, German Atrocities 1914. A History of Denial, (Yale, 2001). Alan Kramer’s most recent book, Dynamic of Destruction. Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War (Oxford, 2007) portrays the wider wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept the world from the Balkans in 1912, via the western front, Turkey, Italy, and eastern Europe, to the seven-year catastrophe of
war and revolution in Russia. He is currently working on a major research project funded by the Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences on 'The International History of Concentration Camps'.
Contact: alkramer@tcd.ie, tel: 353 1 896 1411
Ronit Lentin
Ronit Lentin is senior lecturer in sociology and director of the MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Department of Sociology, at Trinity College Dublin, where she earned her Ph.D. She is a founding member of the Trinity Immigration Initiative and publishes extensively on Israel Palestine, gender and genocide, racism and migration in Ireland. Ronit Lentin has researched representations of the Shoah, particularly through the gendering of the relationship between a masculinised Israel and a feminised Jewish diaspora, and testimonies of women who survived Transnitria, an area of deportation in Southern Ukraine, during World War II. She is currently researching the co-memoration of the Palestinian 1948 catastrophe by Israeli Jews, and working on a monograph, provisionally titled Co-memory: Israeli Jews Commemorating the Palestinian Nakba. Her other books include Conversations with Palestinian Women (1982), Gender and Catastrophe (1997), Israel and the Daughters of the Shoah: Reoccupying the Territories of Silence (2000), Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation (with Nahla Abdo 2002), Re-presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century (2004), Race and State (with Alana Lentin, 2006), and Thinking Palestine (2008).
Contact: email: rlentin@tcd.ie , tel: 353 1 896 2766
Geraldine Smyth
Geraldine Smyth O.P. has worked in the fields of education, theology and psychotherapy. She gained a Ph.D in Theology in Trinity College Dublin (1993), was Coordinator of the Opsahl Commission – A Citizens’ Inquiry on a way forward for Northern Ireland, and was Director of the Irish School of Ecumenics 1995-99. She is Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Research Degrees Programme in ISE; Chair of the International Advisory Group of INCORE (Institute of Conflict Research) at the University of Ulster; and a member of the Board of Directors of Healing Through Remembering, an independent organisation engaged in dealing with the past in the aftermath of the conflict in and about Northern Ireland. Her research interests include reconciling memories in post-conflict societies; religion’s role in violence and peacebuilding; dealing with loss in transitional societies. Queen’s University Belfast awarded her an honorary doctorate for services to reconciliation (2003). In 2005 she received Princeton University’s James McCord Award for ‘advanced scholarship promoting ecumenical understanding in a global era.’ Her recent publications include, ‘Telling a Different Story: Hope for Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland’ in (Eds.,) Philipa Rothfield, Cleo Fleming, and Paul A. Komesaroff, Pathways to Reconciliation: Between Theory and Practice, (Ashgate, 2008), 67-78, and ‘A New and Shocking Valuation,’ Mary Grey, From Rwanda and Back: Liberation, Spirituality and Reconciliation, London, Darton, Longman and Todd, (2007), in Doctrine and Life, Vol. 58, No. 2, 56-63.
Contact: gsmyth@tcd.ie, tel: 353 1 218 0535
Etain Tannam
Etain Tannam received her PhD in politics from the London School of Economics and lectures in international Peace studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics. She specialises in conflict resolution and international organisations, European Union politics and Northern Ireland politics. She has published various articles and a book in this area. Her publications include ‘The Divided Irish’, in Mabry T., McGarry J. and O’Leary B. (eds.) 2009, Europe’s Divided Nations, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming; 2007 ‘The EU and the Cross-Border Relationship’, in Coakley J. and O’Dowd L. (eds.) 2007, Crossing the border: new relationships between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Dublin, Irish Academic Press,. 2007 ‘The European Commission and Conflict Regulation: a case of preference change’, Co-operation and Conflict, 2007, 42: 3: 337-356. She is also author of Cross-Border Co-operation in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, Basingstoke, Macmillan, (1999).
Contact: tanname@tcd.ie, tel. 353 1 260 1144
David Tombs
David Tombs is a political theologian and has his PhD in theology from the University of London. He is currently Head of Discipline for the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin and works primarily on the cross-border M.Phil. in Reconciliation Studies in Belfast. He has an interest in the international lessons from truth commission initiatives in post-conflict societies and their relevance for the truth-recovery debate in Northern Ireland. His publications in the area of truth and reconciliation include Explorations in Reconciliation: New Directions for Theology (Ashgate, 2006) and Truth and Memory: The Church and Human Rights in El Salvador and Guatemala (edited with Michael A. Hayes; Gracewing, 2001).
Contact: tombsd@tcd.ie, tel: 44 (0) 28 9037 3989