Brendan Browne
Assistant Professor
Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Brendan Ciarán Browne holds an LL.B and LL.M in Law, and Law & Human Rights from Queen's University Belfast. His PhD, a comparative analysis of commemorative events in Ireland and Palestine, was completed through the School of Sociology at Queen's University Belfast (2012). Previously Dr Browne has worked in the School of Law (Queen's University Belfast) as a Research Fellow on a National Institute of Healths grant (NIH) project entitled: 'Growing up on an Interface: Findings and Implications for the Social Needs, Mental Health and Lifetime Opportunities of Belfast Youth'. His most recent appointment was as an Assistant Professor in Human Rights and International Law at Al Quds (Bard) University, Palestine. Dr Browne's research interests are situated around political conflict, the impact of post-conflict reconstruction on children and young people, commemorating conflict and conducting research in conflict zones. His research is heavily focussed on Palestine where he spends time travelling regularly to conduct fieldwork with children and young people growing up in the West Bank. His forthcoming co-authored book (with Dr C. Dwyer & Prof. P. Shirlow) examines the impact of growing up during this period of transition away from conflict in the north of Ireland (forthcoming 2016).
Research Interest
Post-conflict Justice, truth and Reconcilation
Publications
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Browne, B.C., Recording the personal: The benefits in maintaining research diaries for documenting the emotional and practical challenges of fieldwork in unfamiliar settings, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 12, (1), 2013, p420-435
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Brendan Ciarán Browne , Commemoration in conflict: chronicling and comparing the 1948 Palestinian Nakba and 1916 Irish Easter Rising remembrance events, Kenyon Institute, East Jerusalem, 14th May , 2013
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Brendan Browne, Clare Dwyer, Navigating Risk: Understanding the Impact of the Conflict on Children and Young People in Northern Ireland, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 37, (9), 2014, p792--805
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Browne, B., Moffett, L., Finding your feet in the field: Critical reflections of early career researchers on field research in transitional societies, Journal of Human Rights Practice, 6, (2), 2014, p223-237
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Browne, B.C., McBride, R.-S., Politically sensitive encounters: Ethnography, access, and the benefits of Hanging Out, Qualitative Sociology Review, 11, (1), 2015, p34-48 ,
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Brendan Ciarán Browne , Commemorations and Construction in Transitional Belfast, Theatre of War Symposium, Abbey Theatre Dublin, 23rd January, 2015
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Brendan Ciarán Browne , Education under occupation: Reflections from Al Quds University, Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, 20th November, 2015,
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Cummings, M. E., Shirlow, P., Browne, B., Dwyer, C., Merrilees, C. E., Taylor, L., Growing up on an Interface: Findings and Implications for the Social Needs, Mental Health and Lifetime Opportunities of Belfast Youth, Northern Ireland Office for the First Minister and Deputy First Minister, March, 2016
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Brendan Ciarán Browne, Choreographed Segregation: Irish Republican Commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising in Post-Conflict Belfast, 30, (1), 2016, p101 - 121,
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Browne, B.C., Choreographed Segregation: Irish Republican Commemoration of the 1916 Easter Rising in Post-Conflict Belfast, Irish Political Studies, 31, (1), 2016, p101-121
