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Roger Mac Ginty is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their research expertise lies primarily within the social sciences, with a focus on peacebuilding and international security. They have made contributions to several subfields, including sociology and political science, political science and international relations, and development studies.

Mac Ginty's research covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • International Development and Aid
  • Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
  • Gender, Security, and Conflict
  • Cyprus History, Politics, Society

The scientist has authored numerous papers, including:

  • "Temporality and contextualisation in Peace and Conflict Studies: The forgotten value of war memoirs and personal diaries" (2021, Cooperation and Conflict)
  • "Conflict Disruption: Reassessing the Peace and Conflict System" (2021, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding)
  • "The micro-dynamics of peace and conflict" (2024, Security Dialogue)
  • "Power or peace? Restoration or emancipation through peace processes" (2021, Peacebuilding)
  • "The EU and critical crisis transformation: the evolution of a policy concept" (2021, Conflict Security and Development)

Frequent co-authors in their work include:

  • Oliver P. Richmond
  • Sandra Pogodda
  • Pamina Firchow
  • Kristina Tschunkert
  • Roddy Brett

Key venues where Mac Ginty has published multiple times are:

  • Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding
  • Cooperation and Conflict
  • Peacebuilding
  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Edinburgh University Press eBooks

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications, notably with Edinburgh University Press. One of their books is titled Local Legitimacy and International Peacebuilding, published in 2020.

Best Publications

  • The local turn in peace building: A critical agenda for peace

    Roger Mac Ginty;Oliver P Richmond

  • International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid Forms of Peace

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • Hybrid peace: The interaction between top-down and bottom-up peace

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • Indigenous Peace-Making Versus the Liberal Peace

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • Everyday peace: Bottom-up and local agency in conflict-affected societies

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • No War, No Peace: The Rejuvenation of Stalled Peace Processes and Peace Accords

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • Where is the local? Critical localism and peacebuilding

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • The fallacy of constructing hybrid political orders: a reappraisal of the hybrid turn in peacebuilding

    Roger Mac Ginty;Oliver Richmond

  • Conflict and Development

    Roger Mac Ginty;Andrew J. Williams

  • The Management of Peace Processes

    John Darby;Roger Mac Ginty

  • No War, No Peace: Northern Ireland after the Agreement

    Roger Mac Ginty;Orla T. Muldoon;Neil Ferguson

  • Routine peace: Technocracy and peacebuilding

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • Top-down and bottom-up narratives of peace and conflict

    Roger Mac Ginty;Pamina Firchow

  • Everyday Peace

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  • Data hubris? Humanitarian information systems and the mirage of technology

    Róisín Read;Bertrand Taithe;Roger Mac Ginty

  • Myth or Reality: Opposing Views on the Liberal Peace and Post-war Reconstruction

    Roger Mac Ginty;Oliver Richmond

  • Where now for the critique of the liberal peace

    Oliver P Richmond;Roger Mac Ginty

  • Guns and Government: The Management of the Northern Ireland Peace Process

    Roger Mac Ginty;John Darby

  • Warlords and the liberal peace: state-building in Afghanistan

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • Hybridity in Peacebuilding and Development - an introduction

    Roger Mac Ginty;Gurchathern Sanghera

  • Routledge Handbook of Peacebuilding

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • Against Stabilization

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  • Measuring Peace: Comparability, Commensurability, and Complementarity Using Bottom-Up Indicators

    Pamina Firchow;Roger Mac Ginty

  • CONTEMPORARY PEACEMAKING: Conflict, Violence and Peace Processes

    John Darby;Roger Mac Ginty

  • A very political reconstruction: governance and reconstruction in Lebanon after the 2006 war.

    Christine Sylva Hamieh;Roger Mac Ginty

  • Between Reisistance and Compliance: Non-participation and the liberal peace

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • The Liberal Peace

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • Civil Society and Peacebuilding: A Critical Assessment

    Roger Mac Ginty

  • Everyday Peace: How So-called Ordinary People Can Disrupt Violent Conflict

    Roger Mac Ginty

Frequent Co-Authors

Oliver P. Richmond
Oliver P. Richmond University of Manchester
Nathalie Tocci
Nathalie Tocci Istituto Affari Internazionali
Orla T. Muldoon
Orla T. Muldoon University of Limerick
Amitai Etzioni
Amitai Etzioni George Washington University
David Chandler
David Chandler University of Westminster
Ian Taylor
Ian Taylor University of St Andrews

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