DCU has been awarded a €900,000 grant through Marie Curie RISE (H2020). The project is entitled “SHADOW: An exploration of the nature of informal economies and shadow practices in the former USSR region”. It will run for four years and will be coordinated by IICRR with Dr Abel Polese as the Principal Investigator. IICRR Director…
IICRR Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Dawn Walsh’s latest book was launched at the Politcial Studies Association Annual Conference at DCU’s All Hallow’s Campus on 13th October. The book Independent Commissions and Contentious Issues in Post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland was officially launched by Sinn Féin Deputy Leader and TD Mary Lou McDonald. The event was also…
Dublin City University has paid tribute to President William J Clinton, 42nd President of the United States; Sr Stanislaus Kennedy, social innovator and Dr Martin Naughton, entrepreneur and founder of Glen Dimplex. The trio were conferred with honorary doctorates (Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa) at a special ceremony in the Helix. Speaking at the honorary…
by Mohd Tahir Ganie, PhD candidate at IICRR, Tweets @TahirFiraz On a recent field trip to Kashmir, I witnessed a strange thing: every other day since early September, women’s braids were being mysteriously clipped by some unknown entity, leaving them, and the people around, in utter shock and disgust. Within a month some 100 cases…
by Bitopi Dutta 3rd year PhD Scholar at IICRR This piece relates to a paper of mine which has been recently published in the edited volume “Legal Pluralism and Indian Democracy”. In the paper I have essentially argued how modernisation and development have threatened customary laws of conflict resolution in the North East India…
The IICRR participated in a workshop co-hosted by The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) together with the Political Studies Association of Ireland (PSAI) “Foreign policy challenges in turbulent times” in Iveagh House on 5th October. The workshop was organised by the IICRR’s Dr Ken McDonagh and Dr Diarmuid Torney together with Dr…
IICRR PhD student Bitopi Dutta has co-edited a volume Legal Pluralism and Indian Democracy: Tribal Conflict Resolution Systems in Northeast India together with Melvil Pereira and Binita Kakati. Published by Routledge “Transistion in Northeastern India” Series, this book offers a multifaceted look at Northeast India and the customs and traditions that underpin its legal framework….
IICRR took part in an international peace studies conference in Tbilisi, Georgia on October 6th. The event was part of PESTUGE, a three-year project to develop peace and conflict studies in the Republic of Georgia, which is coordinated by DCU. Representing IICRR was Associate Director Dr Walt Kilroy, and PhD students Liridona Veliu and Tajma…
Prof. John Doyle, Director IICRR, Dublin City University The images of masked police seizing ballot boxes throughout Catalonia on 1 October, shocked even the firmest opponents of the independence referendum and have raised fundamental questions about how democracies should manage “internal” demands for secession. While opinion polls in recent years have suggested that Catalans by…
Jake Sullivan, who was Hillary Clinton’s senior policy advisor during the 2016 Presidential election and also National Security Advisor to US Vice President Joe Biden, visited the School of Law and Government in DCU on Tuesday 26 September. On this occasion, he gave a lecture to final year students taking the module Gender and Politics. …
