Dr Gladys Ganiel
Lecturer and Programme Co-ordinator, Reconciliation Studies
Gladys Ganiel is Lecturer in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation. She has degrees from Providence College (Rhode Island, USA) and University College Dublin, where she earned her doctorate in Politics in 2005. Her primary research interests are religion and conflict, Northern Ireland politics, evangelicalism, congregational studies, qualitative research methods, and religion and transition in South Africa and Zimbabwe. She has published the book, Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland, Palgrave, 2008, as well as articles on religion, conflict and reconciliation in journals such as Journal of Peace Research, Democratization, Sociology of Religion, Irish Political Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and Journal of Religion in Africa.
Dr Ganiel teaches on a range of modules including Reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Social Research for Transformation, Conflict Analysis and Models of Intervention, and Community Learning and Reflective Practice in Northern Ireland. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town and the University of Zimbabwe. She welcomes doctoral research students in areas such as the role of religion in conflict and reconciliation, the politics of transition in Northern Ireland or Zimbabwe, multiethnic religious organisations or congregations, and evangelicalism, amongst other topics.
She is an investigator on the 3-year IRCHSS funded research project Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism. Previously funded research projects include Religion, Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe (the Association for the Sociology of Religion Fichter Grant) and her doctoral research on Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland (Royal Irish Academy). She serves on the editorial board of the Africa Peace and Conflict Network.
She blogs about religion and politics at http://www.gladysganiel.com.
Areas of expertise
Religion and conflict, Northern Ireland, congregational studies, qualitative research methods, South Africa, Zimbabwe
Modules taught
Conflict and Collective Identity, Reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Social Research Methods
Education
Ph.D. University College Dublin
M.A. University College Dublin
B.A. Providence College
Contact details
Email: gganiel@tcd.ie
Direct Tel: +44 (0) 28 9037 3988
General Tel: +44 (0) 28 9077 5010
Fax: +44 (0) 28 9037 3986
Select publications
- Evangelicalism and Conflict in Northern Ireland, New York: Palgrave, 2008
- ‘Religion in Northern Ireland: Rethinking Fundamentalism and the Possibilities for Conflict Transformation,’ with Paul Dixon, Journal of Peace Research, 2008
- ‘Is the Multiracial Congregation an Answer to the Problem of Race? Comparative Perspectives from South Africa and the USA,’ Journal of Religion in Africa, 2008
Publications Available On-line
- “Beyond Pietism and Prosperity: Religious Resources for Reconstruction and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe,” The Africa Peace and Conflict Network Occasional Paper Series, (2008), paper no. 1, available at: http://www.africaworkinggroup.org/files/Ganiel.pdf
- “DUP Discourses about Violence and their impact on the Northern Ireland Peace Process,” with Amber Rankin, (2008) Peace and Conflict Studies, 15(1): pp. 115-135, available at: http://shss.nova.edu/pcs/journalsPDF/Summer_2008_PCS.pdf