The politics of conflict and transformation: the island of Ireland in comparative perspective

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Acknowledgements

The conference celebrating the work of Jennifer Todd was held November 2018 in the Royal Irish Academy. It was organised by Gladys Ganiel, Melanie Hoewer, and Iseult Honohan, with the assistance of Dara Gannon, School Manager in the School of Politics and International Relations at UCD. All papers in this volume benefitted from the feedback provided by participants at the conference. In addition to those who contributed to this volume, other paper presenters were: Roland Gjoni, Adrian Guelke, Melanie Hoewer, Iseult Honohan, Cathal McCall, Peter McLoughlin, and Bahar Rumelili. Session chairs were John Baker, Stephanie Dornschneider, Yvonne Galligan, and Karen Trew. A discussion panel featured John Doyle, Paul Gillespie, Bronagh Hinds, and Duncan Morrow. We wish to thank Peter McLoughlin for guiding the production of this volume.

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1  According to data provided by Taylor and Francis in November 2020, the article has been cited 82 times. The figure for the second most-cited article is 54.

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Gladys Ganiel

Gladys Ganiel is Reader in Sociology at Queen's University Belfast, specialising on religion, conflict and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Zimbabwe; evangelicalism; the emerging church movement; and religion on the island of Ireland. She is author/coauthor of six books and more than 40 scholarly articles and chapters, including Transforming Post-Catholic Ireland and The Deconstructed Church, co-authored with Gerardo Marti, which won the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion's 2015 Distinguished Book Award.

David Mitchell

David Mitchell is Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin at Belfast, and Coordinator of the MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation. He is author of Politics and Peace in Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2015) and numerous journal articles and book chapters on several dimensions of the Northern Ireland transition including party politics, language, sport, mediation and religion. His current research focus is on the comparative meaning and value of the Northern Ireland experience, particularly in relation to Korea.