Meet the team

Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin

Professor Ní Aoláin is concurrently Regents Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor of Law at the Queens University, Belfast and is co-PI of the project. She is the recipient of numerous academic awards including the Leverhulme Fellowship, Fulbright scholarship, ASIL Certificate of Merit for creative scholarship, Alon Prize, Robert Schumann Scholarship and Lawlor fellowship. She has published extensively on issues of gender, conflict regulation, transitional justice, and counter-terrorism. She has held academic positions at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, Princeton University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ní Aoláin is currently the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism. @UN_SPExperts @just_security.

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Professor Bill Rolston

Bill Rolston is an emeritus professor with and former director of the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University and co-PI of the project. He has researched and written widely on legacies of conflict and on post-conflict transformation, mainly but not solely in relation to Northern Ireland. Issues researched have included: truth commissions, the contribution of politically motivated prisoners to conflict transformation, victims and memory, and political wall murals.

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Dr Claire Wright

Claire is currently a Research Fellow with QUB’s School of Law, having worked for several years as a Lecturer in Mexico. Her research focuses on politics in Latin America, particularly the role of emergency institutions and ethnic difference. Claire is working on the project as a researcher.

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Below you can find some prior publications by members of the team which speak to the core themes of the project:

• Wright, Claire, Rolston, Bill & Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala (2022)  Navigating colonial debris: structural challenges for Colombia’s peace accord , Peacebuilding.
  DOI:  10.1080/21647259.2022.2027153
  
• Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala ‘ The feminist institutional dimensions of power-sharing and political settlements ’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 24 (1) 2018: 116-132.
  
• Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala ‘ Transitional justice from the margins: Intersections of identities, power and human rights ’, International Journal of Transitional Justice 12(1) 2018: 1-8 (with Eilish Rooney).
  
• Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala ‘ After Things Fall Apart: Challenges for Transitional Justice Futures ’, Human Rights and International Legal Discourse 11(1) 2017: 23-40.
  
• Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala ‘ The aftermath of war: Considering gender in the process of disarmament, demilitarization and reintegration ’, in Joyce P. Kaufman and Kristen P. Williams (Eds.) Women, Gender Equality, and Post-Conflict Transformation. 2016, Taylor and Francis – Balkema.
  
• Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala ‘ The Relationship of Political Settlement Analysis to Peacebuilding from a Feminist Perspective ’ Peacebuilding 4 (2) 2016: 151-156.
  
• Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala ‘ Southern Voices in Transitional Justice: A Critical Reflection on Human Rights and Transition ’ in Upendra Baxi, Christopher McCrudden and Abdul Paliwala (Eds.) Law’s Global and Theoretical Contexts: Towards a Festschrift for William Twining 2015 Cambridge University Press: 73-89.
  
• Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala ‘ Transforming Reparations for Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: Principles and Practice .’ Harvard Human Rights Journal 28 2015: 97-146 (with Catherine O’Rourke and Aisling Swaine).
  
• Ní Aoláin, Fionnuala ‘ Women, Security, and the Patriarchy of Internationalized Transitional Justice ’ Human Rights Quarterly 31(4) 2009, 1055-1085.
  
• Rolston, Bill Ireland, Colonialism, and the Unfinished Revolution 2021, Belfast: Beyond the Pale Books (with Robbie McVeigh).
  
• Rolston, Bill ‘ Ambushed by Memory: Post-Conflict Popular Memorialisation in Northern Ireland ’, International Journal of Transitional Justice 14(2) 2020: 320–339 
  
• Rolston, Bill ‘ Colonialism, Redress and Transitional Justice: Ireland and Beyond ’ State Crime Journal 7(2) 2018, 329-348, with With Fionnuala Ní Aoláin.
  
• Rolston, Bill ‘ Picturing peace: murals and memory in Colombia ‘, Race and Class 58(3) 2017: 23-45 (with Sofi Ospina) 
  
• Rolston, Bill ‘ Civilising the Irish ’, Race and Class 51(2) 2009: 2-28 (with Robbie McVeigh). 
  
• Rolston, Bill ‘ From Good Friday to Good Relations: Sectarianism, Racism and the Northern Ireland State ’, Race and Class 48(4) 2007: 1-23 (with Robbie McVeigh). 
  
• Wright, Claire (ed) The Prior Consultation of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America. Inside the Implementation Gap 2019 Abingdon: Routledge. (with Alexandra Tomaselli).
  
• Wright, Claire ‘ Expanding extractive industries, contracting indigenous rights? Gains, setbacks, and missed opportunities in Latin America ’, in Alison Brysk and Michael Stohl Contracting Human Rights: Crisis, Accountability, and Opportunity, 38-53,2018. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
  
• Wright, Claire ‘ Modèle extractiviste et pouvoirs d’exception en Amérique latine ’ Cultures et Conflits 4 2018, 93-118.