Completed Research Projects in Peace Studies
Explore this page to discover past research projects undertaken by scholars in our School's discipline of Peace Studies. From the significance of ecumenism to examining human trafficking, find out how our researchers have contributed to issues in society and academy.
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Completed Projects
Etain Tannam member and co-author of, The Working Group on Unification Referendums on the Island of Ireland University College London, the Constitution Unit established in 2019 to examine how any future referendums on the constitutional status of Northern Ireland would best be designed and conducted. It published its Final Report on 26 May 2021. The report explores each aspect of the process, including, for example, how decisions would be made on whether to call a referendum, whether referendums would best happen before or after detailed plans for the form of a united Ireland had been developed, how referendum campaigns would be regulated, and who would be able to vote. It takes no view on whether such referendums should takes place.
Etain Tannam is a member of ARINS Analysing and Researching Ireland, North and South, and a member of its Executive Committee. Founded in 2019, ARINS is an initiative jointly developed and administered by the Royal Irish Academy and the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, Notre Dame. The project provides authoritative, independent, and non-partisan research and analysis about constitutional, institutional, and policy options for Ireland, north and south, in a post-Brexit context. For more inforamtion see link to RIA website.
Dong-Jin Kim has received an Irish Research Council/Marie Curie Co-fund/CAROLINE. The research is carried out in partnership with Corrymeela, Northern Ireland and runs from 2017 to 2020.
The aim of this research is to assess and compare the impact of peacebuilding activities in Northern Ireland and in the Korean peninsula, and to identify fragile and durable conditions of the peace processes from the perspective of strategic peacebuilding.
Principal Investigator: Dr Dong-Jin Kim.
Sitting at the intersection between STEM and a range of social science disciplines, (including sociology, politics and anthropology), this research funded by the Wellcome Trust, critiques understandings of ‘Resilience’ and ‘Risk’ from a Palestinian youth perspective.
Those growing up in Palestine must transition from adolescence to adulthood whilst negotiating the everyday difficulties associated with an entrenched and expanding apparatus of occupation. By moving beyond the favoured quantitative analysis of ‘resilience’, the work seeks to gain a deeper and more critical understanding of the usefulness of the terminology, ‘risk’, ‘resilience’ and ‘resistance’ from the perspective of Palestinian youth.
Availing of firsthand qualitative research with Palestinian youth as active research participants, the work will shed light on strategies of ‘coping’ that are often sanitised in more rigid quantitative research frameworks.
TCIN Seed Funding, Wellcome Trust.
Principal Investigator: Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne
The conflict in and around Northern Ireland spanned a period of 30 years (1968 - 1998) and claimed the lives of over 3,500 people across the sectarian divide. The impact of the conflict was far reaching with some suggesting that almost 1 in 3 people were affected indirectly.
Since the onset of a peace process, one that remains unfinished, issues pertaining to the legacy of the conflict and how best to address the needs of victims and survivors, have dominated academic and practitioner discourse. Despite much by way of blue sky thinking, there has been an inability to implement a programme that addresses the diverse needs of those who were impacted. Within the myriad options for dealing with the past there is little to no mention of those who were violently displaced as a result of the onset of the conflict itself. In fact, the issue is almost completely absent from scholarly analysis of the ‘troubles’.
This project, ongoing since 2016, seeks to recover the narratives of these forgotten victims who were displaced, giving them a platform in the debates around dealing with Northern Ireland's past. It is a direct response to existing academic projects that overlook this aspect of victimhood in favour of more procedural based, fiscal responses to conflict transformation. Through a mix of creative methodologies (including semi-structured interviews, artistic representations of displacement, and documentary film) the research engages with both those who were victims and those who were victim makers, when it comes to better understanding the long term impact of violent displacement.
Funded by: Independent Social Research Foundation, Flexible Grants for Small Groups (ISF4)
Principal Investigator: Dr Brendan Ciarán Browne
Project's overall aim is to develop a comprehensive approach to prevent and counter violent radicalisation and extremism. To meet its aims, PERICLES considers violent right-wing as well as religious ideologies. A special focus is being set on the risks connected with digital violent propaganda.
The PERICLES project will deliver advanced and validated counter-propaganda techniques that are target-group-specific. Furthermore, the cooperation between relevant authorities who have been working against violent radicalisation or support the process of de-radicalisation will be enhanced through the use of the project outputs. The comprehensive PERICLES prevention strategy will therefore largely address law enforcement agencies (LEAs) but will also find use by prisons and social workers, teachers and even relatives of affected people.
The project is funded by Horizon 2020 it was awarded 3 million Euro. Prof Gillian Wylie, also from the Irish School of Ecumenics, is the gender adviser for the project and Dr Brendan Marsh joined the ISE in 2017 as post-doctoral researcher for the project.
Principal Investigator: Dr Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic.
Funded by the EU under the Horizon 2020 programme this project is led in Trinity by Professor Linda Hogan. It is a consortium of 11 European partners, led by the University of Utrecht. The project combines high quality training in research integrity with innovative modes of engagement in order to bring ethics alive, thereby equipping the next generation of researchers with the capabilities to conduct research in a responsible manner and to address new and unforeseen research challenges.
This is a government-led national brainstorm on research and the role it can play in creating a better future for all. It has provided the public with an opportunity to submit their ideas about research and its importance. Over 18,000 ideas were received from the public and these have been analysed by an Expert Committee led by Professor Linda Hogan. The Creating Our Future Report will be launched in May 2022.
Linda Hogan is one of a four-person team in this Irish Research Council funded project. The project is funded under the COALESE programme which is focused on Collaborative Alliances for Societal Challenges. Co-led by Professor Andrea Mulligan, Law and Professor Joan Lalor in Nursing & Midwifery and with Professor Des Ryan (Law) the project aims to investigate, for the first time, the operation of the right to conscientious objection in abortion services in Ireland and to develop a coherent framework for situating conscientious objection within a system of access to abortion services in a manner that is proportionate, effective and legally robust.