Dr Mark Callanan
Dr. Mark Callanan is a lecturer at the Institute of Public Administration, a recognised college of the National University of Ireland providing undergraduate and postgraduate education to public servants in Ireland and abroad. A graduate of UCD, the College of Europe Bruges, and UCC, his research interests include the European Union, comparative subnational governance, and public sector reform. As well as publishing several articles in international journals, recent publications include an edited volume on Ireland’s relationship with the European Union – Foundations of an Ever Closer Union: An Irish Perspective on 50 Years Since the Treaty of Rome – which also feature contributions from distinguished scholars, as well as former senior politicians and civil servants. Mark is programme director for the IPA’s Diploma in European Union Studies, and lectures on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes provided by the Institute and different Irish universities. He has run workshops on negotiating in multilateral international fora for public servants in Ireland and in 12 other European countries, and undertaken numerous commissioned research projects for the European Commission and the Irish government.
Col Colm Campbell
Colonel Colm Campbell joined the Defence Forces as a Cadet in April 1973. His service has encompassed a wide range of appointments in operations, training and command & staff functions. His recent appointments in Ireland include Instructor in the Command and Staff School, Personal Staff Officer to the Chief of Staff, and Commandant of the Cadet School. Promoted to Colonel in 2009, he was appointed Director of Strategic Planning in Defence Forces Headquarters.
Col Campbell had three tours of duty to Lebanon (1980/81, 1986 and 1990). In 1992 he returned again to the Middle East as an Observer with UNTSO. His initial 6 months was spent on the Golan Heights. Following this, he was posted to UNTSO Headquarters in Jerusalem. He returned overseas in March 1996 with the European Union Monitoring Mission in Bosnia. He served in the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in 2004. His latest appointment was as Chief of Operational Planning with the Nordic Battle Group.
He undertook the Defence Forces Command and Staff Course in 1994/95 and graduated with Distinction. He completed the US Army Command and General Staff Course in Fort Leavenworth in 1998/99. He undertook the Defence Forces’ Strategic Leadership Course in 2009.
Jill Donoghue
Jill Donoghue is Director of Research at the Institute of European Affairs with responsibility for strategic direction for over 20 research groups at the IEA, which cover a wide range of EU policy areas. She is a member of the consultative board of the Institute for international integration studies in Trinity College, is a member of the Communicating Europe executive board which is run by the Dept. of Foreign Affairs and represents the IEA at the National Forum on Europe. She has lectured previously at University College Dublin, NUI Maynooth, UL and the Smurfit Business School
Dr John Doyle
John Doyle is Head of the School of Law and Government and founding co-Director of the Centre for International Studies in Dublin City University, which offers Ireland’s most sought after programmes in international relations at BA, MA and PhD level (http://www.dcu.ie/~cis/). His research interests include nationalist and ethnic conflict, Northern Ireland, conflict in South Asia and Irish foreign policy. Dr Doyle has recently taken part in EU-funded projects on peace processes with colleagues from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Dr Doyle’s publications include: John Doyle (ed) Policing the Narrow Ground: Lessons from the Transformation of Policing in Northern Ireland (RIA, 2010); ‘How many ways can you look at a proportion? Cross-community vote transfers in Northern Ireland before and after the Belfast agreement’ (with Michael O’Kelly and Philip Boland), Journal Of The Royal Statistical Society (2010); ‘Re-examining the Northern Ireland conflict’, in Vassilis Fouskas (ed.), The politics of conflict (Routledge, 2007); ‘The place of the United Nations in contemporary Irish foreign policy’ (with Eileen Connolly), in Michael Kennedy and Deirdre MacMahon (eds), Obligations and responsibilities: Ireland and the UN 1955–2005 (IPA, 2005); and ‘Irish diplomacy on the UN Security Council 2001–02’, Irish Studies in International Affairs (2004).
Dr Michael Kennedy
Michael Kennedy Executive Editor of the Royal Irish Academy's Documents on Irish Foreign Policy series. Previously, he lectured in Modern and Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. He received a PhD from University College Dublin.
Dr Kennedy is the author of Division and Consensus: the politics of cross-border relations in Ireland 1921 – 1969 (Dublin, 2000) and of Ireland and the League of Nations, 1919-46 (Dublin, 1996), co author of Ireland and the Council of Europe: From isolation towards integration (with Eunan O’Halpin) (Strasbourg, 2000) and joint editor of Ireland, Europe and the Marshall Plan (with Till Geiger) (Dublin, 2004) and Irish Foreign Policy 1919 – 1966 from independence to internationalism (Dublin, 2000) (with J.M. Skelly). He is co-editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume I, 1919-22, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume II, 1923 – 1926, Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume III, 1926 – 1932 and Documents on Irish Foreign Policy: Volume IV, 1932 – 1936. He has also published numerous articles on Irish diplomatic and political history (see here for details). Michael Kennedy’s most recent publication is Obligations and Responsibilities: Ireland and the United Nations, 1955-2005 (co-edited with Deirdre McMahon) (Dublin, 2005) a collection of essays marking fifty years of Ireland’s membership of the United Nations. DIFP webpages
Dr Ray Murphy
Dr. Ray Murphy is a Professor of Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, National University of Ireland, Galway. In addition to his position at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Prof. Murphy is on the faculty of the Pearson Peacekeeping Center, the International Institute for Criminal Investigations and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law at San Remo, Italy. Prof. Murphy was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 2006 and worked with Human Rights Watch in New York as a resident scholar. In 2007 he was awarded the NUI Galway President’s Award for Teaching Excellence, and in 2008 he received the National Award for Excellence in Teaching by the National Academy for the Integration of Research & Teaching & Learning (NAIRTL). Prof. Murphy is a former Captain in the Irish Defence Forces and he served as an infantry officer with the Irish contingent of UNIFIL in Lebanon in 1981/82 and 1989. He practiced as a barrister for a short period before taking up his current appointment at the NUI Galway. He was Chairperson of the Broadcasting Complaints Commission from 1997 to 2000. He has field experience with the OSCE in Bosnia in 1996 and 1997. He has also worked on assignments in Africa and the Middle East for Amnesty International, the European Union and the Irish Government.
Dr. John O'Brennan
Dr. John O'Brennan is Lecturer in European Politics and Society at NUI Maynooth, a former director and founding member of the Centre for the Study of Wider Europe (www.widereurope.ie ). He has lectured at the University of Limerick and held fellowships at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris and the Varna Economics University, Bulgaria. He is the author of The Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (Routledge, 2006); National Parliaments within the European Integration Process: from 'victims' of Integration to Competitive Actors? (Routledge, 2007) and The EU and the Western Balkans: Stabilization and Europeanization through Enlargement? (Routledge, forthcoming 2010). He has published extensively in international refereed journals such as the Cambridge Review of International Affairs, European Political Science, Global Society, the Journal of European Integration, the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, and Parliamentary Affairs. He is also a regular contributor to the international media including BBC World Service, Open Democracy, Die Welt, El Tiempo, the Guardian, the Irish Times, and the Japan Times.Web Link: http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/politicsintrelations/drbentonra/
Dr Mervyn O'Driscoll
Mervyn O'Driscoll is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, University College Cork. His research interests lie in the areas of international history and International Relations, notably Irish foreign policy, nuclear history & politics, and British foreign policy. He has gained a number of academic fellowships including most recently an IRCHSS Research Fellowship. He has authored Ireland, Germany and the Nazis 1919 - 1939 (2004), coauthored The European Parliament and the Euratom Treaty (2002), coedited Ireland in World War Two (2004) and coedited How Europe Saw Ireland, 1945-1973 (forthcoming 2010). In addition, he has authored approximately 30 scholarly articles, chapters and reviews publishing in European History Quarterly, Journal of European Integration History, Irish Studies in International Affairs, Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Diplomacy and Statecraft, Intelligence and National Security, American Historical Review etc. He coordinates the MA in International Relations (History), MA in Politics and the European Studies (History) programmes at UCC.
Dr Stephen Ryan
Dr. Stephen Ryan is a Senior Lecturer in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Magee Campus of the University of Ulster. He has a BA in International Relations from Keele University and a PhD from the London School of Economics. He is the author of Ethnic Conflict and International Relations (1995 2nd edition), The United Nations and International Politics (2000) and The Transformation of Violent Intercommunal Conflict (2007). He has also published about 30 articles and book chapters on ethnic conflict, the United Nations and peace and conflict theory. At present he is the Course Director of the MA in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster and from 2006-10 he was a co-Chair of the International Peace Research Association's Commission on Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding. He has also been involved in conflict resolution initiatives in relation to the conflicts in Cyprus, Northern Ireland and Moldova/Transdneistre. He is also the University of Ulster coordinator for a Marie Curie International Training Site on Sustainable Peacebuilding His main research interests at present are the dynamics and transformation of violent conflicts.
Professor Ben Tonra
Professor Ben Tonra is Jean Monnet Professor of European Foreign, Security and Defence Policy and Associate Professor of International Relations at the UCD School of Politics and International Relations. From 2005-2010 he served as Director of the Graduate School of the UCD College of Human Sciences. Ben’s research interests and publications are concerned with EU security and defence, Irish foreign policy and International Relations theory. He is the Project Leader of the Irish Institute for International and European Affairs’ policy group on European Security and Defence. He is also a member of the Church of Ireland’s working group on Europe and previously served on the Southern Executive of the Methodist Church in Ireland’s Council for Social Responsibility. His latest book: European Republic to Global Citizen: Irish Foreign Policy in Transition is published by Manchester University Press.
Web Link: http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/politicsintrelations/drbentonra/