Michael Kerr
Professor at King's College London
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- King's College London
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Biography
King's College London
Michael Kerr is Director of the Middle East & Mediterranean Studies programme and the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies, and Professor of Conflict Studies. He is a graduate of Essex University (BA Hons Political Science), and the London School of Economics (MSc Government; PhD International History) where he was Leverhulme Research Fellow in 2007-08.
He is the author of five books on regulating political conflict in Lebanon and Northern Ireland. His latest books The Destructors: The Story of Northern Ireland's Lost Peace Process was published by Irish Academic Press in 2011 and Lebanon: After the Cedar Revolution (with Are Knudsen) with Hurst & Co in 2012.
Research Interests
- Conflict Resolution
- Consociational Democracy
- Northern Ireland
- Middle East
- Lebanon
- Syria
Michael Kerr is currently writing a history of the Northern Ireland hunger strikes and working on a wider project which examines Margaret Thatcher’s handling of the Northern Ireland troubles. He is interested in receiving proposals from prospective PhD students on Northern Ireland, Anglo-Irish relations, and civil war in Lebanon and Syria.
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