The University of Manchester

Faculty Member, HCRI

Professor

About

Roger Mac Ginty is Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) and the Department of Politics. His main research interests are in peacemaking processes in civil war, political violence and post-war reconstruction. His latest book, 'International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid forms of peace' was published by Palgrave in June 2011. He edits a book series from Palgrave entitled 'Rethinking Political Violence' and a Taylor and Francis  journal entitled 'Peacebuilding' (co-edited with Oliver Richmond) will start publication in 2013. For 2011 and 2012 he is on research leave courtesy of a EU FP7 grant in order to work on a project 'The role of governance in the resolution of socioeconomic and political conflict in India and Europe'. In the Fall semester 2011 he was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
He has conducted field research in Bosnia, Croatia, Georgia, Northern Ireland, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Lebanon and New Zealand. Prior to working at Manchester, he was at the University of St Andrews.

He is an Executive Committee member of the Peace Studies Section of the International Studies Association, and Program Chair 2012-13. 

Selected recent journal articles include:

S.Y. Lee and R. Mac Ginty (2012) 'Context and Postconflict Referendums' Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict, 18(1): 43-64.

R. Mac Ginty (2011) ‘Review Article: Whatever happened to politics and economics?’, International Peacekeeping, 18(1): 110-113.

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 (2010) 'Social Network Analysis and Counterinsurgency: A counterproductive strategy?', Critical Studies on Terrorism 3(2): 209-227.

R. Mac Ginty and 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 (2010) 'No War, No Peace: Why so many peace processes fail to deliver peace', International Politics, 47, pp. 145-62.

R. Mac Ginty, (2009) 'The liberal peace at home and abroad', British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 11: 690-708.

C.S. Hamieh & R. Mac Ginty (2009) ‘A very political reconstruction: Governance and reconstruction in Lebanon after the 2006 war’, Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management 33(3).

K. Liden, R. Mac Ginty and O. Richmond (2009) ‘Introduction: Beyond Northern Epistemologies of Peace: Peacebuilding reconstructed?’ International Peacekeeping 16(5): 587-98. Part of a special issue edited by Liden, Mac Ginty and Richmond.

C. Gormley-Heenan and 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.

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.

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