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