Research @ INCORE:

INCORE Research on conflict and peace issues is interdisciplinary and wide-ranging. This reflects both the inclusive nature of INCORE’s staff and researchers, and the INCORE ethos toward conflict issues – that conflict affects and is affected by a range of global and local phenomena across politics, culture, economics and society. Much of INCORE’s research focuses on societies in transition and most is international and comparative.

Download a .pdf brochure outlining current and projected INCORE's Research programme

Current research themes include:

Peace Processes	Divided Societies – Research Methodologies
Diversity and Pluralism	Education and Conflict
Governance and Transition	Inclusive Citizenship
Gender, Peace and Security

INCORE Research is carried out by experts in a variety of fields such as international politics, law, social studies as well encompassing expertise in regional and thematic issues. It is also enhanced by our links to institutions active in global peace & conflict research and policy.

Major Ongoing and Recent Projects include:

• Elected Representatives/Political Parties and Minority Ethnic Communities in Northern Ireland. Thisproject examined the attitudes of elected representatives and political parties in Northern Ireland towards minority ethnic communities. It also explored the extent and nature of political parties’ and elected representatives’ engagement with minority ethnic communities. The research began on March 1st 2007 and ended on June 30th 2008. Download the final report in pdf format.

• Researching Conflict in Africa (right)), a book written by researchers and practitoners examining the issues prevalent to researching conflict in Africa.
  
• Politicians and Community Relations, a Northern Ireland based project exploring the perspectives of Northern Ireland’s politicians on community relations.
  
• Reimagining Women’s Security in Societies in Transition. This ESRC-funded project examines the role and experiences of women in contemporary post-conflict societies by means of an examination of the gendered meanings of security.
  
• History Teaching in Contested Societies - looks at international approaches to this issue.
  
• Researching Violent Societies explores the ethical and methodological issues facing researchers in such divided societies.

Postgraduate Research Supervision

Research supervision is available in all of INCORE's current research themes. Prospective students should write a research proposal that includes their main field of interest, the aim of the researxh, their methodological approach, theoretical framework and its' relationship to previous work, with reference to key publications in the field.

Prospective research students should check www.ulster.ac.uk/research/rps/prospects for formal application procedures.

More information is available at the Faculty of Social Sciences Research Graduate School.