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Biography
Professor Brandon Hamber is the John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace at Ulster University based at the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE). He is also a member of the Transitional Justice Institute at the university, and is a Visiting Professor of the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. He has undertaken consulting and research work, and participated in various peace and reconciliation initiatives in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Liberia, Mozambique, Bosnia, Colombia, the Basque Country and Sierra Leone, among others. He has published some 30 journal articles, over 25 book chapters and 4 books. Transforming Societies after Political Violence: Truth, Reconciliation, and Mental Health was published by Springer in 2009, and republished in Spanish by Ediciones Bellaterra. In 2015, with Springer he published Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding (Editors: Hamber and Elizabeth Gallagher) and Healing and Change in the City of Gold: Case Studies of Coping and Support in Johannesburg (Editors: Ingrid Palmary, Hamber, Lorena Núñez). In 2010-2013 he was a Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar at University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has been awarded The Paul Harris medal for contributions to peace by Rotary (2013), and was listed as one of the Top 100: The most influential people in armed violence reduction by the Action on Armed Violence Network (2013/2014). Professor Hamber is a board member of Healing Through Remembering (Northern Ireland) and Impunity Watch (Netherlands). He is on the Society Advisory Group of the British Council.
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Research Output 1999 2018
There Is a Crack in Everything: Problematising Masculinities, Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice
Hamber, B. 1 Mar 2016 17, 1, p. 9-34Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
Practice, Power and Inertia: Personal Narrative, Archives and Dealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Hamber, B. & Kelly, G. 14 Mar 2016 8, 1, p. 25-44Research output: Research - peer-review › Article
Dealing with Painful Memories and Violent Pasts. Towards a Framework for Contextual Understanding
Hamber, B. 1 Nov 2015Research output: Research - peer-review › Scholarly edition
Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding
Hamber, B. (ed.) & Gallagher, E. (ed.) 30 Nov 2014 356 p.Research output: Research - peer-review › Anthology
Transforming Societies after Political Violence: Truth, Reconciliation, and Mental Health
Hamber, B. 1 May 2009 272 p.Research output: Research - peer-review › Book
Prizes
Activities 2004 2018
Dissolving Boundaries Seminar: Hidden Barriers and Divisive Architecture
Coyles, D. (Speaker), Hamber, B. (Speaker), Grant, A. (Speaker)Activity: Invited talk
Hidden Barriers and Divisive Architecture: The Case of Belfast
Coyles, D. (Speaker), Hamber, B. (Speaker), Grant, A. (Speaker)Activity: Invited talk
Healing Through Remembering (External organisation)
Hamber, B. (Chair)Activity: Membership of board