In the latest installment in our Politics Lecture Series, Prof. Roger Mac Ginty from the University of Manchester will present a public lecture on 'Boundaries of the mind: Boundary making and keeping in deeply divided societies'.

About the speaker

Roger Mac Ginty is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, and the Department of Politics. His research has been on peace processes, political violence, and local responses to international peace-support interventions. He has conducted field research in Bosnia-Herzgovina, Croatia, Georgia, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Turkey, Uganda and the US. He edits the journal Peace building (with Oliver Richmond) and edits a book series with Palgrave entitled 'Rethinking Political Violence' (eleven books published so far). His latest books are International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid forms of peace (2011) and the Routledge Handbook on Peacebuilding (2013). In 2014, his four volume edited Sage Major Work on Peacebuilding was published, and in 2015 the Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action (edited with Jenny H Peterson) was published. He has has worked on EUFP7 and ESRC projects and currently is principal investigator of the £1m+ ESRC 'Making Peacekeeping Data Work' project. He is also researching everyday peace indicators (with colleagues at George Mason University and the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation) - a project funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. He is seconded to HCRI. He welcomes PhD research proposals on the local-international interface in peacebuilding, political violence, and peace processes.

He has been program chair of the International Studies Association Peace Studies Section. He is currently working on a monograph on everyday peace.