Roger MacGinty
Reader
Room: 108
Office Hours
Tel: 1923
Email: hrm21
st-andrews.ac.uk
About
Roger Mac Ginty is a Reader at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, School of International Relations. He joined the University of St Andrews in 2009. His research interests lie in the comparative study of peacemaking processes and political violence, as well as in international peace-support interventions. For Autumn Semester 2011 he is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Current research projects involve an EU FP7 project on conflict resolution and governance in India and the EU (conducted with St ANdrews colleague Oliver Richmond and others), and an investigation into the idea of Everyday Peacebuilding Indicators. He edits the Palgrave book series 'Rethinking Political Violence'.
Teaching
I am currently on extended research leave courtesy of an EU FP7 research project. In the past I directed the M.Litt in Peace and Conflict Studies and convened the undergraduate modules 'Peace Processes and Violence' and 'The Aftermath of Wars: Liberal dilemmas', as well as the postgraduate module 'Issues in Peace and Conflict'.
Research
Keywords: Peace, conflict, political violence, civil war, post-war reconstruction, liberal peace
My main interest is in how societies get into and out of conflict, and the problems that arise from peacebuilding and post-war reconstruction. My research has adopted a critical lens that questions the motives and utility of western state interventions that are conducted under the name of 'peace'. I have conducted field research in Bosnia, Croatia, Jordan, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, and Sri Lanka.
I am currently working on an EU FP7 project on Governance and Conflict Resolution in India and the European Union, as well as editing a Handbook on Peacebuilding for Routledge.
See: http://standrews.academia.edu/RogerMacGinty
Books
R. Mac Ginty (2011) International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid forms of peace, Palgrave.
R. Mac Ginty & O. Richmond eds. (2009) The Liberal Peace and Post-war Reconstruction, Routledge.
R. Mac Ginty & A. Williams (2009) Conflict and Development, Routledge. (Currently being translated into Japanese).
J. Darby & R. Mac Ginty eds. (2008) Contemporary Peacemaking: Conflict, peace processes and post-war reconstruction 2nd edition, Palgrave.
R. Mac Ginty (2006) No War, No Peace: The rejuvenation of stalled peace processes and peace accords, Palgrave. Paperback published in May 2008.
J. Darby & R. Mac Ginty eds. (2003) Contemporary Peace Making: Conflict, violence and peace processes, Palgrave. Reprinted 2003.
R. Mac Ginty & J. Darby (2002) Guns and Government: The management of the Northern Ireland peace process, Palgrave.
J. Darby & R. Mac Ginty eds. (2000) The Management of Peace Processes, Macmillan.
Articles
R. Mac Ginty (forthcoming) 'Between resistance and compliance: Non-participation and the liberal peace', Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding.
R. Mac Ginty (2011) 'Review Article: Whatever happened to politics and economics?' International Peacekeeping, 18(1): 110-113.
R. Mac Ginty (2010) ‘Social Network Analysis and Counterinsurgency: A counterproductive strategy?’ Critical Studies on Terrorism 3(2): 209-227.
R. Mac Ginty (2010) ‘Hybrid Peace: The interaction between top down and bottom up peace’, Security Dialogue 41(4): 391-412.
R. Mac Ginty (2010) ‘Warlords and the Liberal Peace: State-building in Afghanistan’, Conflict, Security and Development 10(4): 573-595.
R. Mac Ginty & C.S. Hamieh (2010) ‘Made in Lebanon: Local participation and indigenous responses to development and post-war reconstruction’, Civil Wars 12 (1-2): 47-64.
R Mac Ginty, Christine Sylva Hamieh (2009) "A Very Political Reconstruction: Governance and reconstruction in Lebanon after the 2006 war"; Disasters; 33(3); Full text via DOI; More info
R Mac Ginty (2009) "The liberal peace at home and abroad: Northern Ireland and liberal internationalism"; British Journal of Politics and International Relations; 11(4):690-708; Full text via DOI; More info
C. Gormley-Heenan & R. Mac Ginty (2008) ‘Ethnic outbidding and party modernization: Understanding the Democratic Unionist Party’s electoral success in the post-Agreement environment’, Ethnopolitics 7(1): 43-61.
R. Mac Ginty (2008) ‘Indigenous peacemaking versus the liberal peace’, Cooperation and Conflict, 43(2): 139-163.
R. Mac Ginty (2007) ‘Reconstructing post-war Lebanon: A challenge to the liberal peace’, Conflict, Security and Development 7(3): 457-82.
R. Mac Ginty & P. du Toit (2007) ‘A disparity of esteem: Relative group status in Northern Ireland after the Belfast Agreement’, Political Psychology 28(1): 13-31.
R. Mac Ginty (2004) ‘Looting in the context of violent conflict: A conceptualization and typology’, Third World Quarterly 25(5): 857-870.
R. Mac Ginty (2004) ‘Unionist political attitudes after the Belfast Agreement’, Irish Political Studies 19(1): 87-99.
K. Brown & R. Mac Ginty (2003) ‘Public attitudes toward partisan and neutral symbols in post-Agreement Northern Ireland’ Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 10: 83-108.
R. Wilford & R. Mac Ginty (2003) ‘ Northern Ireland’s devolved institutions: A triumph of hope over experience?’ Regional and Federal Studies 13(1): 31-54.
R. Mac Ginty (2003) ‘The prospect of multi-level voting in post-peace accord Northern Ireland’, Peace and Conflict Studies, 10(2): 46-61.
R. Mac Ginty (2003) ‘The pre-war reconstruction of post-war Iraq’, Third World Quarterly 24(4): 601-617.
R. Mac Ginty (2003) ‘Constitutional referendums and ethnonational conflict: The case of Northern Ireland’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 9(2): 1-22.
R. Mac Ginty (2001) ‘The Political Use of Symbols of Accord and Discord: Northern Ireland and South Africa’, Civil Wars, 4(1): 1-21.
R. Mac Ginty (2001) ‘Ethno-National Conflict and Hate Crime’, American Behavioral Scientist 45(4): 639-653.
R. Mac Ginty et al. (2001) ‘Consenting Adults: The principle of consent and Northern Ireland’s constitutional future’, Government and Opposition 36(4): 472-492.
R. Mac Ginty (2000) ‘Hate Crimes in Deeply Divided Societies: The case of Northern Ireland,’ New Political Science 22(1): 49-60.
Administration
International Relations Postgraduate Committee
International Relations Research Committee
Grants
I have been principal investigator on three ESRC grants, and have held grants from UNESCO and the United Nations University. I currently hold an EU Framework 7 grant (with my colleague Professor Oliver Richmond) to work on a project entitled 'Cultures of governance and conflict resolution in Europe and India'.
Editorial Positions
I edit the 'Rethinking Political Violence' book for Palgrave Macmillan, and have guest edited special issues of Global Society, International Peacekeeping and The Round Table: The Commonwealth journal of international affairs. I serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.
Current Research Students
I currently have six PhD students and have supervised seven PhD students to completion.
PhD Supervision topics
I'm interested in supervising PhDs on peacebuilding and statebuilding in contexts affected by civil war and conflict. I'm also interested in work on political violence, and have a particular interest in comparative work.
