Michael Kerr

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.