Speaker: Roger MacGinty, Professor in Defence, Development and Diplomacy, Durham University

Chair: Dr Kieran Mitton

Drawing on the Everyday Peace Indicators project, this talk unpacks the notion of everyday peace and examines its conceptual bases and constituent parts. Key to this is seeing peace as a form of power and thus critiquing realist and security-led versions of power. The paper argues that so-called ordinary people, often in the most extreme circumstances of war and violence, have the potential to disrupt conflict.

Roger Mac Ginty works on peace and conflict, particularly on the intersection between top-down and bottom-up approaches to peacemaking. He is interested in everyday peace and the different ways in which this might be captured. He has conducted extensive fieldwork and his research has been funded by the EU, ESRC and Carnegie Corporation of New York among others.
He co-directs the Everyday Peace Indicators project (with Pamina Firchow) and edits the Taylor and Francis journal Peacebuilding (with Oliver Richmond). He also edits the "Rethinking Political Violence" book series. His articles have been published in Cooperation and Conflict, Security Dialogue, and Review of International Studies.