Paul Arthur
Professor of Politics
Former Director of the Graduate Programme in Peace and Conflict Studies
University of Ulster

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Joan B. Kroc Peace Scholar in Residence

August 23 - December 21, 2010

Paul Arthur is a Professor of Politics and former Director of the Graduate Programme in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ulster. He holds a BA and MSSC from Queen’s University Belfast and a D.Litt. from the National University of Ireland. He is the author of five books –the latest being Special Relationships: Britain, Ireland and the Northern Ireland problem (2001) – and numerous peer-reviewed articles. He has lectured extensively in Europe and the United States. In 1997-98 he held a Senior Fellowship at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington DC where his research was in Track Two Diplomacy. He has also held the Jefferson Smurfit Distinguished Fellowship in Irish Studies at the University of Missouri (2000). He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Stanford University for six months in 2007. He has acted in a consultancy capacity for the United Nations Research Institute in Social Development (UNRISD) on political violence, and the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at the House of Commons on an enquiry on “Dealing with the Past”. He has been involved in a series of problem-solving workshops in Colombia, Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Palestine and Macedonia. In the past two years he has been involved in background discussions with the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and delegations from Georgia, Iraq and Israel/Palestine when they have visited Northern Ireland.