Niall Ó Dochartaigh Editor & Author

Niall Ó Dochartaigh is Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science and Sociology at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland, and convener of the ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence.

Katy Hayward is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Fellow of The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast, UK.

Elizabeth Meehan holds an Emeritus Chair in the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. In 2001, she moved from the School of Politics in Queen’s University Belfast to become the Founding Director of the university’s new Institute of Governance and Public Policy.