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Coming out of Violence
Participants in the Coming out of Violence project.
(project completed in late 1998)

Professor John Darby, formerly Director of INCORE, is a visiting fellow at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington. He was previously Director of the Centre for the Study of Conflict at the University of Ulster. He has published extensively on the Northern Ireland conflict, including: Northern Ireland: the background to the conflict, (Belfast: Appletree, 1983); Intimidation and Control of Conflict in Northern Ireland (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan, 1986); Political Violence: Ireland in a comparative perspective (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1988); Northern Ireland: Managing Difference (London: Minority Rights Group Press, 1995) and Scorpions in a Bottle:Conflicting Cultures in northern Ireland (London: Minority Rights Group Press, 1997).

Dr Tamar S Hermann is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the Open University of Israel and Director of the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University, Israel. She is also leader of the Israeli research team of the International Study of Peace Organisations, sponsored by the Aspen Institute, Washington DC. She has published extensively on Israel politics including, National Security and Public Opinion in Israel, (with A Arian & I Talmud) (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1988) and "Contemporary Peace Movements: Between the Hammer of Political Realism and the Anvil of Pacificism," Western Political Quarterly 16, 1, (January 1993), pp. 869-893.

Dr. Roger Mac Ginty co-ordinator of the Coming out of Violence project and is Research Development Officer with INCORE at the University of Ulster. His publications include: "Almost Like Talking Dirty: Irish security policy in post-Cold War Europe," Irish Studies in International Affairs 6, (1995), pp. 127-143; "Farewell to a Beautiful Idea: The end of neutrality in the post Cold War world," (with Mick Cox), Small States and the Security Challenge in the New Europe, Werner Bauwens et. al., eds., (London: Brassey's, 1996), pp. 122-134; "War Cause and Peace Aim? Small States and the First World War," European History Quarterly 27, 1, (1997), pp. 41-55; "Bill Clinton and the Northern Ireland Peace Process," Aussenpolitik 48, 3, (1997), pp. 237-244; "American Influences on the Northern Ireland Peace Process," Journal of Conflict Studies 17, 2, (Fall 1997), pp. 31-50.

Dr Ludger Mees is a Lecturer in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of the Basque Country. His main academic interest is in modern social movements. His publications include Entre Nacion y clase. El Nacionalismo Vasco y su base social en perspectiva comparative (Bilbao: Sabino Arana, 1991) and "Social Solidarity and National Identity in the Basque Country; the case of the Nationalist Trade Union ELA-STV," in The Dilemmas of Collective Action, P Pasture & J Verberckmoes eds., (Oxford: Berg, 1997).

Professor David Newman is Director of the Humphrey Institute for Social Research at Ben Gurion University of the Ngev and Associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Development at the same university. His publications include: "Shared spaces- separate spaces: the Israel-Palestine peace process," Geojournal 39, 4, (1996), pp. 327-330; "Transforming ethnic frontiers of conflict into political frontiers of peace," in O. Yiftachel & A Meir eds., Ethnic Frontiers in Israel: Perspectives on Development and Inequality (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997); with G. Falah, "Bridging the gap: Palestinian and Israeli discourse on autonomy and statehood," Transaction of the Institute of British Geographers 22, 1, (1997), pp. 111-129.

Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu is Executive Director of the Centre for Policy Alternatives, Columbo, Sri Lanka. He is also a visiting lecturer in international relations at the University of Colombo. His publications include "Safeguarding Minority Communities in South Asia," in LL Mehrotra et. al., SAARC 2000 and Beyond, (Omega Scientific Publishers, 1995); "Instability in Sri Lanka," Survival, (Sept/Oct 1990); and Conflict and Consensus in North/South Security, co-edited with Caroline Thomas (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1989).

Dr Pierre du Toit is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. His main academic interest is conflict resolution in divided societies with a special emphasis on constitutional rules for conflict management, theories of bargaining and negotiation, the dynamics of ethnic conflict, and state building and democratic stability. His publications include, The Myth Makers - The elusive bargain for South Africa's future,co-edited with WP Esterhuyse (Johannesburg: Southern, 1990); Power Plays - Bargaining Tactics for Transforming South Africa (Johannesburg: Halfway House, Southern, 1991); and State Building and Democracy in Southern Africa - a comparative study of Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1995).

For more information contact: INCORE, Aberfoyle House, Northland Road, Londonderry, BT48 7JA, Northern Ireland. Tel: +44 (0) 1504 375506. Fax +44 (0) 1504 375510. Email incore@incore.ulst.ac.uk



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