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Dr. David Mitchell

Associate Professor (School of Religion)
      
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Dr. David Mitchell

Associate Professor (School of Religion)

 damitche@tcd.ie

 


David Mitchell's research interests are in peacebuilding and reconciliation, Northern Ireland politics, and the comparative meaning of the Irish peacemaking experience. He is co/author or editor of five books, and has published numerous book chapters and articles in leading international journals. He is Course Coordinator of the MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation, based in Belfast, and teaches on the modules Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland, Research Skills, Contemporary Conflict and Peacemaking: Global Perspectives, and Dynamics of Reconciliation. He is regularly consulted by the international media on developments in Northern Ireland and speaks frequently to international groups of policy makers and civil society organisations on peacemaking in Ireland. He has written or co-written op-eds in the Irish Times, Irish Independent, The Times (Ireland) and the Huffington Post, as well as several articles in The Conversation. With Dr Dong Jin Kim, he has worked on a series of academic and practitioner conferences and field visits between Ireland and Korea since 2016. From 2024, he is a member of the editorial board of the journal Irish Political Studies. After a BA in History and Philosophy and MA in Peace and Conflict Studies, David completed a doctorate in Politics at Ulster University (Magee) where he also taught. Prior to joining Trinity, he worked on projects based at the University of Aberdeen, Northern Ireland Association for Mental Health, and Ulster University, carrying out qualitative and quantitative research among politicians, ex-combatants, religious activists, top-level and grassroots sports organisations, LGB, ethnic minority and transgender groups, and the general public.
  Conflict resolution   ETHNIC-CONFLICT   Northern Ireland Conflict   Northern Ireland Troubles   Northern Ireland/British-Irish Politics   Peace Studies   Peacebuilding   Religion, Conflict and Peace   Sport Studies
Politics after the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement: lessons of peace and conflict in, editor(s)James McAuley, Máire Braniff and Graham Spencer , A Companion to Conflict and Peace in Northern Ireland, Peter Lang, 2025, pp483 - 496, [David Mitchell], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
David Mitchell, The international significance of the Northern Ireland peace process: Revisiting the lessons twenty-five years after the Good Friday Agreement, Politics, 45, (2), 2025, p258 - 273, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
David Mitchell and Sarah Wallace, Peace, Temporality, and Generations: How Young People Make Sense of Northern Ireland"s Long Peace Process, Sociology, 59, (4), 2025, p743 - 760, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
David Mitchell, The Flag that Does Not Exist"Yet? Imagining a New Symbol in Northern Ireland, The Political Quarterly, 2025, p1 - 7, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
David Mitchell, Transition Television: teaching peace, conflict, and contemporary Northern Ireland using Derry Girls and Blue Lights, Politics, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Dong Jin Kim, David Mitchell, and Gillian Wylie, Peace and Conflict in a Changing World: Key Issues in Peace Studies, Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, Book, PUBLISHED  URL
Strand One and Political Cooperation in Northern Ireland in, editor(s)Etain Tannam , British-Irish Relations in the Twenty-First Century, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, pp83 - 112, [David Mitchell and Etain Tannam], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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, 2023, p283 - 297, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
David Mitchell, Rescuing reconciliation: finding its role in peace research and practice, Third World Quarterly, 2023, p1737 - 1753, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell, Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea, Routledge, 2022, 1 - 203pp, Book, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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David Mitchell, Transition television: teaching peace, conflict, and contemporary Northern Ireland using Derry Girls and Blue Lights, Politics journal Symposium: Active Learning, online, 28 March, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
David Mitchell, What is the point of reconciliation? Finding a role for the concept in peace research and practice, British International Studies Association annual conference, Belfast, 20 June, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
David Mitchell, The flag that does not exist, yet? Reimagining symbols in Northern Ireland and Ireland, Trinity Arts and Humanities Research Festival, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, 25 September, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
David Mitchell, Review of For and Against a United Ireland by Fintan O'Toole and Sam McBride, 2025, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
David Mitchell, Language learning for reconciliation in Northern Ireland, 2025, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED
Explaining peace in Northern Ireland: Are there lessons for other conflicts? in, editor(s)Peace Dream Forum , Seeking the Path to Peaceful Unification on the Korean Peninsula, South Korea, Peace Dream Forum, 2024, pp55-100 , [David Mitchell], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
David Mitchell and Sarah Wallace, Peace processes, temporality, and generations: how young people make sense of a generation of peace in Northern Ireland, Political Studies Association of Ireland Conference 2024, Radisson Hotel, Dublin, 19 October 2024, 2024, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
David Mitchell, Peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland, Experiences in Peacebuilding and Reconciliation: A Translocal Conversation, Ulster University, Belfast, 7 June, 2024, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
David Mitchell, Explaining conflict and peace in Northern Ireland, Colours of Peace: Moving Beyond Orange and Green, Belfast Castle, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 18 June 2024, 2024, Migrant Centre NI, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
David Mitchell, Explaining conflict and peace in Northern Ireland, Peace Boat Voyage 118, Japanese 'Peace Boat' cruise ship, 1 October, 2024, Peace Boat, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

  


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