INCORE : Research

INCORE Research: Governance and Transition

Societies in transition from conflict to a more peaceful situation present real and interesting challenges to systems and structures of governance – new legislation and forms of governance are often introduced and have to be implemented. Particular issues include human rights, victims, truth recovery and equality. INCORE is actively involved in research into many of these issues and in partnership with other centres has also examined comparative learning between societies in transition.

INCORE Governance and Transition Research Projects include:

Trauma, development and peacebuilding.
Towards an integrated psychosocial approach. This project will begin in late 2007 and is funded by the International Development Research Centre in Canada. The project will seek to find new ways to conceptualise trauma within the development and peacebuilding context so as to maximise its utility as a practical concept.(43)

Developing and Implementing Public Policy in Northern Ireland and South Africa
This ESRC funded project addressed the issue of the development and implementation of policy in societies in transition. Working in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg the project involved a comparative examination of policy making.(27)

Government Strategies on Victims in Post-Conflict Societies
The remit of this project was to provide a brief overview of victims strategies adopted by governments in post-conflict societies. (pdf document)(28)

Dealing with the Past
Tip O’Neill fellow Brandon Hamber researched issues to do with reconciliation processes and dealing with the past.(34)

Peacekeeping
This project in partnership with partners from the University of Limerick and the Austrian Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution examined the training and preparation of military and civilian peacekeepers.(37)