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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.

Research Tags

Conflict resolution ETHNIC-CONFLICT Northern Ireland Conflict Northern Ireland Troubles Northern Ireland/British-Irish Politics Peace Studies Peacebuilding Religion, Conflict and Peace Sport Studies

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Publications

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Non Peer Reviewed (84)

David Mitchell, Flag politics: explaining the meaning, failure, and persistence of the proposal for a new flag in Northern Ireland, Parliamentary Affairs, 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED URL

Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell, What Can Korea Learn from Ireland? A Comparative Analysis of the two Peace Processes, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED URL

David Mitchell, Dong Jin Kim, Katerina Antoniou, Flying flags for conflict and peace: Cyprus, Korea, and Northern Ireland compared, Cooperation and Conflict, 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED URL

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

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David Mitchell, Cycling and peacebuilding, Cycling and Society symposium, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 24 August, 2026, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

David Mitchell, A new flag in Northern Ireland: explaining the meaning, persistence, and failure of an unrealised idea, Political Studies Association of Ireland annual conference, Cork, Ireland, 16 October, 2026, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED

David Mitchell, Roundtable: Learning for the island of Ireland, Public Integrity for Peace, Queen's University Belfast, 1 October, 2026, Queen's University Belfast, Transparency International Ireland, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED

David Mitchell, Evidence submitted to the Northern Ireland Affairs Select Committee of the UK Parliament, Inquiry on Reconciliation in Northern Ireland, 2026, -, Miscellaneous, PUBLISHED

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

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