Meet Prof Feargal Cochrane

Professor Feargal Cochrane was born and educated in Belfast and has been publishing and teaching on Northern Ireland and wider themes of violent political conflict and peacebuilding for 30 years.

• He is the author of ten books and numerous other publications including articles in international peer review journals and chapters in edited book collections.
• His Northern Ireland: The Reluctant Peace published by Yale University Press in 2013 was shortlisted for the Ewart-Biggs Memorial Book Prize in 2015 and a second edition Northern Ireland The Fragile Peace will be published by Yale in 2021.
• Feargal was Professor of International Conflict Analysis at the University of Kent and Director of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC) within the School of Politics and International Relations from 2012-19.
• He has also held academic appointments at Lancaster University, Ulster University and Queen’s University Belfast.
• He is now a Senior Research Fellow of CARC and Professor Emeritus at the University of Kent.