Introduction
Dr Dawn Walsh is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. She is currently the lead researcher on an Irish Research Council funded project which examines the role of independent commissions, such as electoral and human rights commissions, in peace processes. This project includes the creation of a dataset of such commissions from over six hundred intra-state peace agreements.
She previously held an Irish Research Council-Marie Curie Career Development fellowship which funded her to carry out research on Northern Ireland, Iraq, Bosnia, North Macedonia, and Moldova while based at the University of Birmingham and Dublin City University. While at the University of Birmingham Dr Walsh was one of the contributors to the new Political Agreements in Intra-state Conflicts dataset.
She received her PhD from Dublin City University in 2014. Her work has been published in academic journals including Regional and Federal Studies, Ethnopolitics and Irish Political Studies. She is the author of two books - ‘Territorial Self-Government as a Conflict Management Tool’ (Palgrave, 2018) and ‘Independent Commissions and Contentious Issues in Post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland’ (Palgrave, 2017).
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Dr Dawn Walsh is an Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. She is currently the lead researcher on an Irish Research Council funded project which examines the role of independent commissions, such as electoral and human rights commissions, in peace processes. This project includes the creation of a dataset of such commissions from over six hundred intra-state peace agreements.
She previously held an Irish Research Council-Marie Curie Career Development fellowship which funded her to carry out research on Northern Ireland, Iraq, Bosnia, North Macedonia, and Moldova while based at the University of Birmingham and Dublin City University. While at the University of Birmingham Dr Walsh was one of the contributors to the new Political Agreements in Intra-state Conflicts dataset.
She received her PhD from Dublin City University in 2014. Her work has been published in academic journals including Regional and Federal Studies, Ethnopolitics and Irish Political Studies. She is the author of two books - ‘Territorial Self-Government as a Conflict Management Tool’ (Palgrave, 2018) and ‘Independent Commissions and Contentious Issues in Post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland’ (Palgrave, 2017).
Fields of expertise: Gender equality, Inclusive social development / inclusive societies / social inclusion