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Dr. Dong Jin Kim

Visiting Academic (School of Religion)

 kimdj@tcd.ie

 


Biography

Dong Jin is a visiting academic at School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin. He was a Lecturer of Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford, and Irish School of Ecumenics Senior Research Fellow in Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He also taught at South Korean universities, such as the University of North Korean Studies, Hanshin University, and Yonsei University. His research interests are in the areas of peacebuilding, humanitarian and development cooperation, comparative studies of peace processes, and trans-local peacebuilding cooperation. He conducts engaged research, collaborating with various humanitarian, development, and peace organisations, such as Okedongmu Children in Korea, Korean Sharing Movement, Understanding Conflict Trust, and Corrymeela. He was also a Goodwill Ambassador for Peace on the Korean Peninsula at the South Korean Ministry of Unification (2020-22). He is the author of The Korean Peace Process and Civil Society: Towards Strategic Peacebuilding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), and co-editor of Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea (Routledge, 2022, with David Mitchell). He has published research articles in many journals including International Affairs, International Peacekeeping, Globalizations, Peacebuilding, Alternatives, Asia Europe Journal, and the Pacific Review, as well as several Korean peer-reviewed journals.

Research Projects

 Irish School of Ecumenics Senior Research Fellowship in Peace and Reconciliation Studies
 Comparative Studies on the Peace Processes in Northern Ireland and Korea: Toward Strategic Peacebuilding
 Developing Peace and Security Policies of the Seoul Metropolitan Government in an International Perspective
 Preventing North Korean Disasters and Building Disaster Safety Nets on the Korean Peninsula
 The White Paper on Gyeonggi Province's Inter-Korean Exchanges and Cooperation 2001-2011

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Korean Fluent Fluent Fluent
Dong Jin Kim and Youngchul Chung, The Agency-Structure Problem in Peacebuilding: Constructing a Niche in the Korean Conflict, The Pacific Review, 37, (1), 2024, p56 - 85, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell, 'You Realise We're Not the Only Ones Stuck Living Like This': Comparative Learning, International Partnerships and Civil Society Peace Education in Conflict-Affected Societies, Alternatives, 48, (4), 2023, p283 - 297, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell, Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea, Routledge, 2022, 1 - 203pp, Book, PUBLISHED  DOI
Peace processes and comparative research on Ireland, Korea and beyond in, editor(s)Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell , Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea, Abingdon, Routledge, 2022, pp1 - 20, [Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
Peace agreements and elite-level peacemaking in Ireland and Korea: governance, security and context in, editor(s)Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell , Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea, Routledge, 2022, pp80 - 97, [Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
The peacebuilding role of women within and between Ireland and Korea in, editor(s)Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell , Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea , Routledge , 2022, pp120 - 139, [Gillian Wylie and Dong Jin Kim], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
Supporting peacebuilding through socio-economic development in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland: sharing lessons for the Korean peace process in, editor(s)Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell , Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea , Routledge , 2022, pp158 - 177, [Sandra Buchanan and Dong Jin Kim], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  DOI
Dong Jin Kim and Andrew Ikhyun Kim, Global Health Diplomacy and North Korea in the Covid-19 Era, International Affairs, 98, (3), 2022, p915 - 932, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Dong Jin Kim, Reciprocal Empowerment for Civil Society Peacebuilding: Sharing Lessons between the Korean and Northern Ireland Peace Processes, Globalizations, 19, (2), 2022, p238 - 252, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
David Mitchell, Dan Gudgeon and Dong Jin Kim, Sport and strategic peacebuilding: Northern Ireland and Korea compared, Peacebuilding, 10, (1), 2022, p37 - 50, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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David Mitchell and Dong Jin Kim, `You realise we"re not the only ones stuck living like this": comparative learning, international partnerships, and civil society peace education in conflict-affected societies, Political Studies Association of Ireland Conference 2023, Europa Hotel, Belfast, 22 October, 2023, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Dong Jin Kim, Sustainable Peace: Comparing the Northern Ireland and Korean Peace Processes, Dialogue for Peace Process in East Asia - Sharing Experience of Civil Society, Waseda University, Tokyo , 25 January, 2020, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Dong Jin Kim, South Korean NGOs' Humanitarian Cooperation with North Korea and Strategic Peacebuilding, 2019 International Conference on Humanitarian and Peaceful Cooperation with the DPRK, New York University, New York , 1 November , 2019, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Dong Jin Kim, Building Peace with North Korea, Asia Briefing, New York, 1 November, 2019, Asia Society, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Dong Jin Kim, Why Peace Journalism?, Shinmoonkwa Bangsong, (580), 2019, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Dong Jin Kim, Resisting the violent structure of militarized conflict: The role of women peace activists in Northern Ireland and Korea, Conflict Research Society Conference, Birmingham, UK, 18/09/2018, 2018, Conference Paper, PRESENTED
David Mitchell and Dong Jin Kim, Ireland can teach Korea about peace, The Times (Irish Edition), 2018, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
David Mitchell and Dong Jin Kim, Divided Korea can learn from North's peace process, Irish Times, 2017, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Dong Jin Kim, We're facing a crisis if the new South Korean government acts without US approval, Journal.ie, 2017, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Dong Jin Kim, The two Koreas have tried to make peace before - and they could do so again, The Conversation, 2017, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

  

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Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Research interests are in the areas of: strategic peacebuilding, reconciliation, humanitarian and development cooperation, ecumenical movements, in the Korean peninsula and East Asia, and comparative studies of peace processes, including Korea and Ireland.