Dr. Iain Atack
Assistant Professor, School of Religion
Biography
REFEREEING FOR JOURNALS:
Journal of Peace Research; Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change; Security Dialogue; World Development.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Civil Society and Non-Violent Political Action in Northern Ireland in, editor(s)Clara Fischer and Áine Mahon , Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland, Routledge, 2020, pp111 - 130, [Iain Atack and Dong Jin Kim]
"Nonviolence in International Relations" in, editor(s)Birgit Schippers , Routledge Companion to Rethinking Ethics in International Relations, United Kingdom, Routledge, 2020, pp377 - 391, [Iain Atack]
"Nonviolence and Civil Resistance" in, editor(s)Oliver Richmond and Gizem Visoka , The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, U.K., Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp1-17 , [Iain Atack]
"Tolstoy's Pacifism and the Critique of State Violence" in, editor(s)Jorg Kustermans, Tom Sauer, Dominiek Loots & Barbara Segaert , Pacifism's Appeal: Ethos, History, Politics, United Kingdom, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp81 - 102, [Iain Atack]
Iain Atack, "Pacifism and perpetual peace", Critical Studies on Security, Vol 6, (Issue 2), 2018, p207 - 220
Social Sciences, (2018), 1-140p, Iain Atack, [eds.], One year
Iain Atack, Review of Understanding Nonviolence: Contours and Contexts, by Maia Carter Hallward and Julie M. Norman (eds) , Peace & Change, 42, (1), 2017, p157-159
Iain Atack, Gandhi in political theory: Truth, law and experiment, Review of Gandhi in Political Theory: Truth, Law and Experiment, by Anuradha Veeravelli , Contemporary Political Theory, 15, (2), 2016, p1-4
Kant versus Tolstoy: Perpetual Peace, Pacifism and the Elimination of War in, editor(s)John O'Grady, Cathy Higgins and Jude Lal Fernando , Mining Truths, Germany, Eos, 2015, pp59 - 68, [Iain Atack]
Iain Atack, "Non-violence transformative, pouvoir et changement social", Diogene, (243-244), 2014, p28 - 40
Iain Atack, "Pacifism and Nonviolent Political Action: From Civil Resistance to Political Transformation", Filozofski Godisnuak, 25, (1), 2013, p319 - 333
Iain Atack, Transformative Peacebuilding and Radical Violence, Review of Lost in Transformation: Violent Peace and Peaceful Conflict in Northern Ireland, by Audra Mitchell , International Peacekeeping, 19, (5), 2012, p661-663
Iain Atack, Nonviolence in Political Theory, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, 1 - 202pp
Iain Atack, Civil Resistance, Transformative Nonviolence and the State, E-International Relations, 11, 2012, p1 - 4
Some Reflections on Transformative Nonviolence in, editor(s)Luc Reychler, Julianne Funk Deckard and Kevin H. R. Villanueva , Building Sustainable Futures: Enacting Peace and Development, Bilbao, University of Deusto, 2009, pp239 - 244, [Iain Atack]
Pacifism and International Relations in, editor(s)Patrick Hayden , The Ashgate Research Companion to Ethics and International Relations, Farnham and Burlington, Ashgate, 2009, pp183 - 198, [Iain Atack]
Iain Atack, Peace Studies and social change: the role of ethics and human agency, Policy and Practice, (9), 2009, p9
NGOs as Agents of Cosmopolitan Values or Parochial Interests in, editor(s)John O'Grady and Peter Scherle , Ecumenics from the Rim, Berlin, Lit Verlag, 2007, pp353 - 361, [Iain Atack]
Iain Atack, Review of War and the Christian Conscience: Where Do You Stand?, by Joseph J. Fahey , Milltown Studies, (58), 2006, p161-163
Iain Atack, "Nonviolent Political Action and the Limits of Consent", Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory, 53, (111), 2006, p87 - 107
Iain Atack, Review of Debt and Trade: Time to Make the Connections, by Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice , Milltown Studies, 1, (57), 2006, p118-121
Iain Atack, The Ethics of Peace and War, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2005, vii - 173pp
Atack I., Peacebuilding as conflict management or political engineering, Trocaire Development Review, 2004, p17 - 32
Atack I., The ethics of intervention and the limits of state sovereignty, Search, 26, (2), 2003, p79 - 84
Atack I., Ethical Objections to Humanitarian Intervention, Security Dialogue, 33, (3), 2002, p279 - 292
Atack I., From Pacifism to War Resistance, Peace and Change, 26, (2), 2001, p177 - 186
Atack I., The Human Rights Approach to Development, Trocaire Development Review, 2001, p39 - 48
Atack I., Four Criteria of Development NGO Legitimacy, World Development, 27, (5), 1999, p855 - 864
Atack I. , Human Rights in Global Politics, Trocaire Development Review, 1999, p185-192
Atack I., Peace Processes and Internal Armed Conflicts, Kasarinlan, 12, (4), 1997, p113 - 130
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Iain Atack and Dong Jin Kim, "Civil Society and Nonviolent Political Action in Northern Ireland", Conflict Research Society Annual Conference, University of Sussex, U.K., September 8-9, 2019, 2019, pp1 - 10
Iain Atack, "Civilian-based defence and the challenge to state power", Conflict Research Society annual conference, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Sept. 17-18, 2018, 2018, pp1-15
Iain Atack, "Anarchism and Nonviolent Civil Resistance: A Constructive Dialogue", Anarchist Studies Network Fifth International Conference, Loughborough University, United Kingdom, Sept. 12-14, 2018, 2018, pp1-18
Iain Atack, "Nonviolent Civil Resistance, Power and Social Transformation", Violence, Space and the Political, National University of Ireland Galway, June 7-9, 2018, 2018, pp1-10
Iain Atack, "Nonviolence and the Militarised State", British International Studies Association annual conference, University of Bath, United Kingdom, June 13-15, 2018, 2018, pp1-11
Iain Atack, "Pacifism, Anti-War Internationalism and the State", Conflict Research Society annual conference, Dublin, September 7-8, 2016, 2016, pp1-10
Iain Atack, "Nonviolent Resistance and Social Transformation", International Studies Association annual conference, Atlanta, U.S.A., March 16-19, 2016, 2016, pp1-23
Iain Atack, "Integrative Power and Nonviolent Political Action", Conflict Research Society annual conference, University of Kent, U.K., Sept. 14-15, 2015, 2015, pp1-16
Iain Atack, "Civil resistance and social transformation", Political Science Association of Ireland annual conference, University College Cork, Ireland, Oct. 16-18, 2015, 2015, pp1-23
Iain Atack, "Nonviolent political action, power and social change", International Peace Research Association Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, August 1-15, 2014, 2014, pp1-11
Iain Atack, "Nonviolent action, power and social change", Conflict Research Society Annual Conference, University of Leeds, U.K., Sept. 2-4, 2014, 2014, pp1-20
Iain Atack, "Nonviolent political action, power and social change", Political Science Association of Ireland Annual Conference, National University of Ireland Galway, Oct. 17-18, 2014, 2014, pp1-8
Iain Atack, "Perpetual peace, pacifism and the elimination of war", Why War? Peace Studies in the 21st Century, University of Bradford, U.K., May 1-3, 2014, 2014, pp1-14
Iain Atack, The Utopian Vision of Transformative Nonviolence, Conflict Research Society Annual Conference, University of Essex, U.K., Sept 17-20, 2013, pp1-23
"My kind of nonviolence" in, editor(s)Rob Fairmichael , My Kind of Nonviolence: Personal views from Ireland on what nonviolence means, Belfast, INNATE, 2012, pp8 - 9, [Iain Atack]
Iain Atack, "Pacifism and Nonviolent Political Action: From Civil Resistance to Political Transformation", 12th International Law and Ethics Conference, University of Belgrade, June 21-23, edited by Jovan Babic , 2012, pp1-20
Iain Atack, "Nonviolent political action, civil society and the state", Political Studies Association of Ireland Annual Conference, Iveagh House, Dublin, October 22, 2011, pp1-14
Iain Atack, "Nonviolent Action and Political Transformation", Conflict Research Society Annual Conference, University of Lancaster, September 6-7, 2011, pp1-15
Iain Atack, "Ethics and Power in Nonviolent Political Action", Religion, Ethics, Cultural Engagement lecture series, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, November 29, 2011, School of Religions, Theology and Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin, 1-18pp
Iain Atack, "Civil Resistance and Transformative Nonviolence", International Peace Research Association, University of Sydney, July 6-10, 2010, pp1-20
Iain Atack and Sean McCrum, Neutrality: Irish Experience/European Experience, Dublin, Irish School of Ecumenics, 2009, 1 - 36pp
Iain Atack, "Pacifism and Nonviolence: Complementary or Contradictory?", International Peace Research Association Global Conference, University of Leuven, Belgium, July 15-19, 2008
Iain Atack, "NGOs as agents of cosmopolitan values or parochial interests", Cosmopolitanism Past and Present: an international conference, University of Dundee, Scotland, June 6-8, 2007
Iain Atack, "Pacifism and International Relations", Peace in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science, October 20-21, 2007
Iain Atack, "Non-governmental organisations, cosmopolitan legitimacy and distributive justice", The Legitimacy of Non-state Actors' Involvement in Global Governance and Policy, Tilburg University, December 8, 2006, Anton Vedder, Associate Professor of Ethics and Law, Tilburg University, 1-13pp
Iain Atack, "Civil Society, Nonviolence and the Consent Theory of Power", A World for All? The ethics of global civil society, University of Edinburgh, September 4-7, 2005, pp1-15
Atack I., The politics of pacifism and the ethics of cosmopolitanism, International Peace Research Association, Sopron, Hungary, July, 2004
Atack I., Signs of Hope in Times of War, Féile Bríde, Afri Conference, January, 2003
Atack I., Introduction to Nonviolence, Trócaire, Maynooth, May, 2003
Atack I., Peacebuilding as conflict management or political engineering, Shaping the Agenda for Conflict Research, Conflict Research Society, U.K., September, 2003
Atack I., Moving beyond aid, Comhlamh, Dublin, November, 2002
Atack I., Armed conflict and development, Ireland Aid, Dublin, April, 2002
Atack I., The ethics of humanitarian intervention, International Peace Research Association, Suwon, South Korea, July, 2002
Atack I., Alternative economics: Is debt cancellation enough?, October, 2001, Dublin
Atack I., Human Rights and Development: Where do we stand?, Department of Foreign Affairs Fourth Annual NGO Forum on Human Rights, Dublin Castle, July 21, 2001
Atack I., Irish Trade Unions Linking Globally, Development Education Project, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, 2000
Atack I., The ethics of external intervention, Development Studies Association Annual Conference, School of African and Oriental Studies, London, November, 2000
Atack I., Return to sender, November, 2000, Roscrea
Atack I., Human rights and democratisation in Mozambique: A three-year strategy, Ireland Aid, 2000
Atack I., The human rights based approach to development cooperation, Ireland Aid, 2000
Atack I., The ethics of debt 'forgiveness': Jewish, Christian and Muslim perspectives on the Third World debt crisis, January, 1999, Dublin
Atack I., The religion ground in equality legislation in the Republic of Ireland, The Equality Authority, 1999
Atack I., The Ethics of Debt 'Forgiveness': Jewish, Christian and Muslim Perspectives on the Third World Debt Crisis, Dublin, ISE and Debt and Development Coalition, 1999
Atack I., Understanding the establishment of peace as a process, Community Relations Council Conference on Pursuing Peace, Draperstown, Northern Ireland, November, 1997
Atack I., Support for democratisation, good governance and human rights in Mozambique: a three-year strategy, Irish Aid, 1997
Atack I., Nonviolent intervention in situations of violent conflict, World Congress on Violence and Human Co-Existence, University College Dublin, August, 1997
Atack I., Development NGO legitimacy, Conference on Ethics, Development and Global Values, University of Aberdeen, July, 1996
Atack I., Irish Aid: A proposed strategy for democratisation, Irish Aid, 1996
Research Expertise
Description
PEACEBUILDING AND CONFLICT PREVENTION: Peacebuilding emerged as a popular concept through An Agenda for Peace in the early 1990s in the optimism of the immediate post Cold War period., when it appeared that certain protracted armed conflicts, in Central America, southern Africa and the Middle East, were in the process of being resolved. Peacebuilding refers to those actions that will consolidate and strengthen those structures necessary for peace in post-conflict situations, and also to prevent the recurrence of armed conflict. Although peacebuilding and conflict prevention, as related activities , have achieved relative success in some contexts (Mozambique, Cambodia, East Timor), they must confront serious theoretical (or conceptual) and practical (or political) challenges if they are to be viable forms of "international conflict management". Changes to U.S. foreign policy, for example, threaten the multilateral (especially UN) framework within which such interventions occur. And at a deeper level, peacebuilding has also been accused of being a mechanism by which Western values and institutions are transmitted from the so-called developed world to the so-called developing or emerging countries, or from the core to the periphery. My research involves examining the theoretical and normative assumptions behind peacebuilding, as well as recent attempts to implement it, in order to test the efficacy of "international conflict management" as an alternative to military responses to social and political conflict.Recognition
Representations
Chairperson, Action from Ireland (Afri).
Awards and Honours
Overseas Research Student Award, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom
Barton Award for International Peace and Security, Department of External Affairs, Canada
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada doctoral fellowship
Memberships
Member of the Political Studies Association
Member of the British International Studies Association.
Member of the International Peace Studies Association.
Member of the Development Studies Association of the U.K. and Ireland.
Member of the Solidarity (Third World) Committee of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions