Free ELfR webinar
We speak with Professor Peter Shirlow (FaCSS), Director at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies about the Northern Ireland Protocol and its future perspectives within a historical context.
Moderated by: Geoff Corre and Piotr Azia
Prof. Peter Shirlow
Professor Peter Shirlow (FaCSS) is the Director at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies. He was formerly the Deputy Director of the Institute for Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, QUB. He is the Independent Chair of the Executive Office’s Employers’ Guidance on Recruiting People with Conflict-Related Convictions Working Group and a board member of the mental health charity Threshold. He is a Visiting Research Professor at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. He sits on the editorial boards of Irish Political Studies and International Planning Studies.
Professor Shirlow has undertaken conflict transformation work in Northern Ireland and has used that knowledge in exchanges with governments, former combatants and NGOs in the former Yugoslavia, Moldova, Bahrain and Iraq, He has also presented talks to members of the US Senate and House of Representatives and is a regular media contributor.
He has recently undertaken several reports and surveys regarding the Protocol which he argues shows more inter-community consensus than is assumed.
A recent opinion piece by Prof. Shirlow:
Why Chris Heaton-Harris and Steve Baker mean instability for Northern Ireland
OPINION: No wonder a trade deal with the US is off the table – look at Truss’s new Northern Ireland ministers
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/chris-heaton-harris-steve-baker-liz-truss-northern-ireland/