Alexander I Gray Alexander I Gray is an experienced researcher, holding BA, MA, PhD, and a European Doctoral Enhancement (EDEN) in Peace and Conflict Studies. Research interests include non-governmental organisations, migration, integration, citizenship, and civil society. He has undertaken a variety of EU funded studies and various fellowships, including Marie Curie and Organisation of American States. Expertise in Cuba’s emerging NGO community, with established network of contacts on the island, including mass organisations, NGOs, religious groups, diplomatic corps, aid organisations, and academic community. Recently completed a Marie Curie Intra-European Post Doctorate Fellowship at the University of Deusto, Spain, where he was a professor in the European Doctorate, ‘Migrations and Conflict in Global Society.’ Current research focuses on irregular immigration and political mobilisation in Spain’s Basque Country. He is a researcher in the European Network of Excellence on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion (IMISCOE). Alexander also dedicates time to international election observation missions with the EU and the OSCE. Alex' Publications
- Conflict Resolution and European Legacies of War, edited by Alexander I Gray, Deidre Kelleher, and Edward Moxon-Browne. Centre for European Studies, Limerick, Ireland (2004).
- Revolution and Participation: the changing dynamic of Cuban civil society, edited by Alexander I Gray and Antoni Kapcia, Contemporary Series on Cuba, University Press of Florida, Gainesville, USA (submitted).
- ¿Solidaridad o Cooperación?: Vínculos entre ONGs cubanas y europeas, prioridades tradicionales y nuevos enfoques in Inés Gómez-Chacón, Julia González, Wolfgang Bosswick, and Federico Besserer (editors), Educación Superior y Retos de la Cooperación Internacional. Migraciones y Derechos Humanos. Propuestas para Europa y Latinoamérica. EDIW, Brussels, Belgium (2005).
- Co-Development and Migration: conceptualising policies as outlined in the Basque Immigration Plan 2003-2005 . in Setién, María Luisa y Vicente, Trinidad (editors), Cross-disciplinary Views on Migration Diversity. Universidad de Deusto , Bilbao, Spain (2005).
- Cuban – European NGO collaboration: international cooperation with the island during the Special Period. (November 2005), Peace and Conflict Monitor, United Nations mandated University for Peace, Ciudad Colón, Costa Rica. Victoria FontanVictoria Fontan is the Director of the International Peace Studies Program at the United Nations-mandated University for Peace in San Jose, Costa Rica, since 2005. Prior to her appointment to UPeace, Victoria was a consultant in Peace and Conflict Studies at Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq, where she was in charge of developping a permanent conflict resolution curriculum in Northern Iraqi universities. Other former academic positions include a Visiting Assistant Professorship of Peace Studies at Colgate University, NY, a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at Sabanci University, in Turkey. Victoria holds a Ph.D. in Peace and Development Studies form the University of Limerick, Ireland. Central to her work has been a conceptualisation of terrorism and political violence through the study of humiliation. She conducted field research in Lebanon with the Hezbollah, in Bosnia-Herzegovina on human trafficking and organised crime, and in Fallujah and Doloya (post-Saddam Iraq) on various armed groups. Former consultancy projects include organisations such as UNHCR and USAID-Irak. Her interdisciplinary approach had brought her to brief an ecclectic body of government and political agencies such as members of the US Congress, the US Military Academy at West Point, and various UN agencies. Homepage...
Articles/Chapters in books – recently published
- ‘Polarization between occupier and occupied in Post-Saddam Iraq: humiliation and the formation of political violence’ in Terrorism and Political Violence, 18:217-238, Routledge: Taylor and Francis. Spring 2006.
- ‘Le discours d’al-Manar : vecteur de glasnost du Hezbollah ?’ in Questions de Communication, Vol 8, Université de Metz, France. April 2006.
- ‘Hubris, History, and Humiliation: Quest for Utopia in Post-Saddam Iraq. in Social Alternatives (Special Issue "Humiliation and History in Global Perspectives"), Vol. 25, No. 1, First Quarter, 2006.
In Print
- ‘Expressions of humiliation in ‘New Iraq’: Torture, Simulacra and Polarization’, Peace and Change, Blackwell Publishers, US.
- “Our ears and our eyes”: journalists and fixers in Iraq, written with Jerry Palmer, and submitted to peer reviewed publication Journalism, Sage publishers.
- ‘US Newsmedia influence on US Foreign Policy: from the Gulf war to the War on Terrorism’, UL Perspectives, Volume 1, February 2002.
- ‘David vs. Goliath: The Lebanese Hezbollah in the Current World Order’ in Journal of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations. Kuala Lumpur: IDFR Press, December 2002.
- ‘The International Media and the Lebanese Hezbollah: reporting or supporting a third party?’, in Humanitariannet, The Emotion and the Truth: Studies in Mass communication and conflict. Bilbao: University of Deusto, 2003.
- ‘The Media and Conflict Prevention: Warning or Monitoring? The Case of Dvar, Bosnia’ in M Aguirre, F Ferrandiz & J-M Pureza Before Emergency: Conflict Prevention and the Media. Bilbao: University of Deusto, 2003.
- ‘Responses to human trafficking: from the Balkans to Afghanistan’ in C Van den Anker, The Political Economy of New Slavery London: Palgrave, 2003.
- ‘Al-Manar TV and Lebanese Women’s Groups’ in Naomi Sakr, Women and Media in the Arab World. London: IB Tauris, 2004.
- ‘The importance of education and training in modern peace operations’ in The Yearbook of International Peace Operations, Volume 9, 2003. Amsterdam: Brill Academic Publishers.
Books – In Print
- Education and Training in Modern Peace Operations, edited by Victoria Firmo-Fontan and Col. Gunther Freisleben. German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2004.
In preparation
- Humiliation and Violent Conflict, to be edited by Victoria Fontan, Evelin Lindner and Arie Nadler, and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder
- Winning Hearts and Minds? Terrorism and insurgency in post-Saddam Iraq, Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Marijke KeetMarijke Keet is currently an Assistant professor ("ricercatore a tempo determinato") at the KRDB Research Centre at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. She focuses on logic-based knowledge representation, ontology, and Ontology where she concentrates on granularity.
She received a PhD in Computer Science from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in 2008, an MSc in Microbiology from Wageningen University and Research Centre in 1998, an MA 1st class in Peace & Development Studies from Limerick University in 2003, and a BSc(honours) 1st class in IT & Computing from the Open University UK in 2004. Before returning fulltime to academia in 2002, she has worked for 3.5 years as systems engineer in the IT industry.
Marijke has been chairperson and webmaster of the award-winning Irish Peace Society, is politically active since 1992 and has held various positions in different steering committees and organisatorial activities (PR & communication, treasurer, vice-chair, chair).
Her focus in peace research is on terrorism, negotiation dynamics and coalition formation & stability, and agriculture & food. Homepage... Selected publications - Keet, C.M. (2009). Dirty wars, databases, and indices. Peace & Conflict Review, 4(1):75-78. - Keet, C.M. (2009). Games tegen terrorisme en voor conflictoplossing. Vredesterts, April 2009, issue 49. - Keet, C.M. (2008). Book review "The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society" by Gray and Kapcia. Latin American Politics and Society, 2008, 50(4): 189-192. preprint - Keet, CM. Towards a resolution of terrorism using game theory - coalitions, negotiations and audience costs. Dept. of Politics and Public Admin. Working papers, University of Limerick, Number 1. 2003. preprint (pdf)
- Keet, CM. Democracy in the European Union. UL Pespectives, Journal of Political Studies, 2003, 2:71-80. preprint (pdf)
- Keet, CM. Women's rights in Islamic Marriage. Irish Peace Society, 2002. html Fraser GrayFraser is currently researching US National Security Strategies and the Rise of Radical Islam at the University of Limerick’s Centre for Peace and Development Studies. By exploring the dynamics between prominent international terrorist groups such as al Qaeda (and domestic insurgency groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and al Qaeda in Iraq) and US military/intelligence actions in the Middle East, it is the objective of this research to provide a causal analysis of the current and primary threat to the ‘western’ dominated system of states. Part of this study has included fieldwork in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt, conducting interviews with radical Islamic groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood, religious leaders such as Ayatollah Fadlullah, , and other power-brokers like Walid Jumblatt of the Druze, former Prime Minister Salim Hoss, and Gamal Mubarak (son of Hosni Mubarak, the current President of Egypt).
As an intern at Oxford University, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Fraser conducted research and analysis on the evolution of the Blair governments proposed Terrorism Bill after the London Bombings in July (2005).
As a Marie Curie Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Deusto in the Spanish Basque Country (2004-2005) Fraser conducted research for the European Research Council on the effects of the Madrid train bombings of March 11th, 2003, on the Spanish government’s counter-terrorism strategies.
Fraser completed an undergraduate degree in International Relations at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada (2000), and an MA in Peace & Development Studies at the University of Limerick (2003) with first class honors. He was awarded the American Studies Scholarship to continue the research of his MA thesis (Applications of the New national Security Strategy of the United States of America in the Middle East: A Post September 11th Analysis) at the PhD Level. He is currently in the final year of his doctoral research. Fraser's Publications
- Armed Humanitarianism: Legitimizing the Conquest of the East in the New World Order. Irish Peace Society, Limerick, 2003. html
- EU Responses to Resistance and Terrorism in the post-September 11th Era. Journal of European Studies, Vol. 69 September – December/2004. Havana, Cuba.
- “Towards a New EU Military Strategy”. In: EDEN: EU Legacies of War. Edward Moxon-Browne & Alexander Gray (eds.). University of Limerick Press. Limerick. January 2005.
- Applications of the New National Security Strategy of the United States of America in the Middle East: A post-September 11th Analysis. Elaboration of MA Dissertation is currently being reviewed for publication.
- March 11th: An analysis of the Effects of the Madrid Train Bombings on the Evolution of Spanish Counter-Terrorism Policy. Title of research project that will be handed up to the European Commission in accordance with the Marie Curie Pre-Doctoral Fellowship. Broadcasts on Academic Expertise
- Radio Havana International, Havana, Cuba. Radio Interview (45 min.): Interviewed by Bernie O’Dwyer regarding international terrorism and US counter-terrorist strategies. (Oct. 1st, 2004).
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