Letting “the people(s)” decide : peace referendums and power-sharing settlements

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Power-Sharing Challenges : From Weak Adoptability to Dysfunction in Iraq

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Obstacles to Constitutional Participation : Lessons from Diverse Voices in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

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Constitutional Inclusion in Divided Societies : Conceptual Choices, Practical Dilemmas, and the Contribution of the Grassroots in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

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Scaling Up from Everyday Concerns to Territorial Politics and Constitutional Debate : Deliberation among Women in the Irish border Area

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors acknowledge the help of the Women’s Collective Ireland in organising the deliberative cafés, Dr Ann Nolan of Trinity College Dublin who was our expert in the question/answer sessions on Zoom, and the colleagues who helped us develop the method in a seminar and Zoom conversations: Dyuti Chakravarty, Nicole Curato, Jonathan Evershed, David Farrell, Yvonne Galligan and Gladys Ganiel. We thank the reviewers and editors for their comments. Funding The authors acknowledge funding from the Irish Research Council (IRC), New Foundations Scheme [grant number NF/2021/27109007]. The funding for this strand of grants was provided by the Shared Island Unit, Irish Department of the Taoiseach.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Time for Deliberation, not Decision, on the Shape of a New United Ireland : Evidence from the ARINS Survey Focus Groups

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Synthesis and Optimization of Visible Light Active BiVO 4

Monoclinic BiVO4 powders were synthesized via a novel route using potassium metavanadate (KVO3) prepared by calcination of K2CO3 and V2O5 as a starting material and followed by hydrothermal treatment and were investigated for the degradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) under visible light irradiation. The synthesized BiVO4 particles were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and UV-Visible (UV-Vis) light diffuse reflectance spectrophotometry. The synthesis produced pure monoclinic BiVO4 particles with multimorphological features containing flower-like, flake-ball, flake, cuboid-like, and plate-like shapes and exhibited strong absorption in the visible light range. The BiVO4 prepared via KVO3 possessed excellent photocatalytic activity for the degradation of RhB under visible light. The performance of this catalyst was found to be superior to other BiVO4 photocatalysts prepared via ammonium metavanadate (NH4VO3) using coprecipitation, combustion, and calcination methods reported in literature, respectively

IPR Policy Brief - Why European organisations fail to be truly transformative actors in interethnic relations

Minority rights are central to many debates in and across Europe, particularly where policymaking is concerned with the ever-present risk of ethnic tension and conflict in the region. Research carried out by Professor David Galbreath (University of Bath) and Dr Joanne McEvoy (University of Aberdeen) critically examines how minority rights are thought about, discussed, and acted on by key European organisations; particularly given the on-going process of EU enlargement. Their central argument is that although debates are often framed in terms of deepening integration, enhancing democracy and respecting human rights, the research shows that the overriding concern of European organisations involved with this agenda has been the protection of minority rights to reduce the likelihood of regional instability. Whilst policy priorities are weighted towards, and therefore largely restricted to, mitigating the risks of immediate conflict rather than empowering minorities, the deeper root causes of tension remain. As a result of adopting strategies that only minimally address the issue of majority-minority ethnic tension, the research argues that European organisations have so far failed to realise their ability to be truly transformative actors in interethnic relations

European organizations and minority rights in Europe: on transforming the securitization dynamic

Minority rights conditionality has been seen by scholars as a key part of the EU enlargement process. While the focus on minority rights has largely been discussed in terms of democracy and even human rights, this article argues that conditionality was a result of the securitization of minorities rather than part of an agenda to protect or empower. In this article, we look at the methods of desecuritization as factors of ‘narratives, norms and nannies’. In response to Paul Roe’s conclusions about the impossibility of desecuritizing societal security, we examine whether the EU, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and the Council of Europe have the ability to change the societal dynamics among ethnic groups in such a way as to make the desecuritization of societal security more likely. Overall, we illustrate how a focus on ‘deconstructivist’ and ‘constructivist’ approaches to societal security has failed to make European organizations important transformative actors in interethnic relations.</jats:p