The Public as Peace-Maker: How polling in divided societies can promote negotiated agreements

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and the Bill and Sally Hambrecht distinguished Peacemakers Lecture Series at AUB held a lecture entitled: "The Public as Peace-Maker: How polling in divided societies can promote negotiated agreements" by Colin Irwin.
Colin Irwin is a member of World Association of Public Opinion Research, and has published and lectured extensively on peace making, public opinion and public diplomacy in the US, UK, Europe and the Middle East. He is presently a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool and a Research Fellow in the Institute of Governance at Queens University Belfast. He was the principal investigator on the 'Peace Building and Public Policy in Northern Ireland' project funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, and in support of the negotiations of the Belfast Agreement he conducted eight public opinion polls in collaboration with the political parties elected to the Stormont Talks. This work is reviewed in his book, The Peoples Peace Process in Northern Ireland (Palgrave MacMillan, 2002). Since then he has extended this work to include the Balkans and the Middle East completing peace polls in Macedonia in 2002, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004 and Serbia and Kosovo in 2005. His website can be found at: http://www.peacepolls.org

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