Research and Dissemination

Publications

The Social and Psychological Effects of Conflict, 

Ferguson, N., & Burgess, M. (2009). From Naivety to Insurgency: The Causes and Consequences of Joining a Northern Irish Paramilitary Group. In D. Canter (Ed.), Faces of Terrorism: Cross-Disciplinary Explorations (p.19 – 33). Chichester, England: Wiley.

Ferguson, N. (2009). The Impact of Political Violence on Moral Reasoning: Socio-political reasoning in Northern Ireland. In S. Scuzzarello, C. Kinnvall and K. Renwick Monroe (Eds.), On Behalf of Others: The morality of care in a global world (p. 233-254). Oxford: Oxford University Press

Ferguson, N., & Burgess, M., & Hollywood, I. (2008). Crossing the Rubicon: Deciding to Become a Paramilitary in Northern Ireland. International Journal of Conflict and Violence. 2, 1, 130-137.

Ferguson, N., & Burgess, M. (2008). The Road to Insurgency: Drawing Ordinary Civilians into the Cycle of Military Intervention and Violent Resistance. In M. D. Ulusoy (Ed.), Political Violence, Organized Crime, Terrorism and Youth (pp. 63-71). Amsterdam: IOS.

Binks, E. & Ferguson, N. (2007). Conflict, its legacies and adjustment among young children in Northern Ireland. In A. Hosin (Ed.), Responses to Traumatised Children (pp. 228-246). London: Palgrave.

MacGinty, R., Muldoon, O. Ferguson, N. (2007). No war, no peace: Northern Ireland after the Agreement. Political Psychology, 28, 1, 1-12.

Burgess, M., & Ferguson, N., & Hollywood, I. (2007). Rebels’ Perspectives of the Legacy of Past Violence and of the Current Peace in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. Political Psychology, 28, 1, 69-88.

Ferguson, N. Binks, E., Roe, M. D., Brown, J. N., Adams, T., Cruise, S. M., & Lewis, C. A. (2007). The IRA apology of 2002 and forgiveness in Northern Ireland’s Troubles: A cross-national study of printed media. Peace & Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 13, 1, 93-113.

Ferguson, N. (2006). MOSAIC Conference Research Review: Current Research on Moral Education and Development in Europe. Journal of Moral Education, 35, 1, 129-136.

Binks, E. & Ferguson, N. (2006). English Children’s Interpretations of War and Peace. Interspectives, 21, 1, 12-18.

Burgess, M, Ferguson, N., & Hollywood, I. (2006). From Individual Discontent to Collective Armed-Struggle: Personal Accounts of the Impetus for Membership or Non-Membership in Paramilitary Groups. Perspectives of Evil and Human Wickedness, 2, 1, 36-46.

Ferguson, N. (2006). Intrastate Conflicts: Instigation, Propagation and Resolution. In M. Fitzduff & C. E. Stout (Eds.), The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts: From War to Peace. Vol. 2. Group and Social Factors (pp. 37-58). West Port, CT: Praeger.

Ferguson, N. (2005). The Conflict in Cyprus: A Psychological Analysis. In M. Michael and A. Tamis (Eds.), Cyprus in the Modern World (pp. 215-227). Thessolonica: Vanias.

Burgess, M., Ferguson, N., & Hollywood, I. (2005).  A Social Psychology of Defiance: From Discontent to Action. In M. Sönser-Breen (Ed.), Minding Evil: Explorations of Human Iniquity (pp. 19-38). New York & Amsterdam: Rodophi.

Burgess, M., Ferguson, N., & Hollywood, I. (2005) Violence Begets Violence: Drawing Ordinary Civilians into the Cycle of Military Intervention and Violent Resistance. Australasian Journal of Human Security, 1, 1, 41-52.

International Organisations

Holmes, M, The development of the Irish Labour Party’s European policy: from opposition to support (Lewiston and Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006)

Holmes, M, (editor), Ireland and the European Union: Nice, enlargement and the future of Europe (Manchester: Manchester University Press 2005)

Light, D., 'Romania: national identity, tourism promotion and European integration', in D. Hall, M. Smith and B. Marciszewska (eds) Tourism in the New Europe: The Challenges and Opportunities of EU Enlargement, (CABI, Wallingford, 2006)

Light, D. and Young, C. (2009) 'European Union enlargement, post-accession migration and imaginative geographies of the 'New Europe':  Media discourses in Romania and the United Kingdom',  Journal of Cultural Geography , 26 (3), pp 281-303

 Mulqueen M, Re-evaluating Irish national security policy: Affordable threats? Manchester University Press (2009)

Mulqueen M, ‘Framing Crime Prevention Discourse in Ireland: Borrowing the Appearance while Avoiding the Substance of the UN Guidelines’, Irish Jurist, Vol. 45 (2010) (with Dermot P.J. Walsh).

Mulqueen M, ‘Securing the state with soldier spies: Evaluating the risks of using military personnel to gather surveillance evidence in Ireland’, Irish Studies in International Affairs, Vol. 20 (2009).

Mulqueen M,  ‘The 2009 Anti-Gangland Package: Ireland’s New Security Blanket?’ Irish Criminal Law Journal, Vol. 19(3) (2009) (with Vicky Conway).

Mulqueen M, ‘A weak link? Irish National Security Policy on International Terrorism’, Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 28 (2) 330-356 (2007).

Rees, N.,Quinn B and Connaughton B,  Europeanisation and New Patterns of Governance in Ireland (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008) 

Rees, N., Paraskevopoulos, eds, C.J., Getimis, P.and L.S.E., EU Enlargement and Multi-Level Governance in Public Policy-Making (London: Ashgate, 2006)

Rees, N., and O'Neill., United Nations Peacekeeping in the Post-Cold War Era London: Routledge (May 2005)

Public Representations of Conflict in the Media and the Arts

Blazek, W, ‘Trench Vision:  Obscurity in Edith Wharton’s War Writings’.  L’obscur, ed. Françoise Sammarcelli. (Paris: Editions Michel Houdiard, 2009) 

Blazek, W, ‘French Lessons: Edith Wharton’s War Propaganda’. Revue Française d’Études Américaines 115 (March 2008): 10-22.  ISSN: 0397-7870. 

Blazek W., ‘The War Veteran in Tender Is the Night’ in Back to Peace:  Reconciliation and Retribution in the Postwar Period’, ed. Aranzazu Usandizaga and Andrew Monnickendam.  (South Bend, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007)

Cowgill, R. and Rushton J., Europe, Empire, and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century British Music (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006).     

Cowgill, R.,  ‘Elgar’s War Requiem’, in Elgar and His World, ed. by B. Adams (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007).

Phillips, T, ‘Shaw, Ireland and World War I: O’Flaherty V.C., An Unlikely Recruiting Play’ in SHAW The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, Volume 30, 2010, pp. 133-146.

Phillips, T, ‘The Wisdom of Experience: Patrick MacGill’s Irishness Reassessed’ in  Sub-Versions: Trans-National Readings of Modern Irish Literature, ed. Ciaran Ross,  (Amsterdam/New York, NY, 2010)

Phillips, T,  ‘Enigmas of the Great War: Thomas Kettle and Francis Ledwidge’ Irish Studies Review, Vol. 16.4 (2008) pp.385-403.

Phillips, T,  ‘No Man’s Land: Irish Women’s Writing of the First World War’, No Country for Old Men: Fresh Perspectives on Irish Literature eds Paddy Lyons and Alison O'Malley-Younger (Bern: Peter Lang, 2008)

Phillips, T,  ‘The Hero Under Fire’ in  Heroines and Heroes, ed. Christopher Hart (Midrash Publishing, 2008) , pp.125-134

Phillips, T,  ‘The Discourse of the Vampire in the Literature of the First World War’ in Vampires: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil ed. Peter Day (NY and Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006), pp.65-80

Religion and Conflict  

Ferguson, N., & Gordon, M. (2007). Intragroup Variability among Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants. Journal of Social Psychology, 147, 3, 317-319.

Harris, E., ‘What Can Buddhism Offer the Struggle for Human Rights?’ in Dialogue, New Series  vols. XXXV &XXXVI, 2008- 9: 137-159.

Harris, E.,  'The Cost of Peace: Buddhists and Conflict Transformation in Sri Lanka' in Can Faiths Make Peace? Damien Keown (Ed.), I.B. Tauris, 2007

Harris, E.,  'What Can Buddhism offer a Violent World' in Interreligious Insight, Vol. 4, No. 1: 54-62; re-printed in translation as 'Que peut offrir le Bouddhisme à un monde violent? in Voies de l'Orient, No. 100, July 2006: 48-56.

Tourlamain, Guy, ‘Holocaust Denial and the West’ in Rapid Response , online journal of the Institute of Religion, Ethics and Public Life, Heythrop College, London University

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