O'Malley Lectures

Padraig O'Malley - The John Joseph Moakley Chair of Peace and Reconciliation
will lecture at the John F. Kennedy Library & Museum
on Thursday May 8, 2008 at 6:00 PM.

The topic will be:
The Helsinki Talks: A Step Forward for Iraq or
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When Peace Comes Dropping Low
SOME LESSONS FROM
NORTHERN IRELAND

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

After the recent elections in Northern Ireland, a most unlikely partnership became the core of a power-sharing government: Rev. Ian Paisley, leader of the right-wing Democratic Unionist Party is First Minister and Martin McGuiness, vice president of Sinn Féin and once chief of staff of the IRA is Deputy. Such a government signals the end of the Northern Ireland conflict. After close to forty years of violence and bloodshed, what accounts for this extraordinary about-face?

All Has Changed, Changed Utterly
THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER THE
U. S. INVASION

Thursday, May 3, 2007

With the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the always Byzantine politics of the Middle East were thrown into further disarray. The broad band of countries entrapped within the boundaries of conflict has expanded to encompass Israel, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, and possibly Turkey.

The Long March Continues
SOUTH AFRICA, THE
POST-APARTHEID STRUGGLE

Thursday, April 19, 2007

When Nelson Mandela was released from prison in February 1990 and the African Nationalist Congress (ANC) unbanned, few would have believed that within four years the Apartheid white government would have negotiated itself peacefully out of power. But that may have been the easy part. South Africa's journey from transition to transformation is far from complete.

THE EVENT WILL LAUNCH O'MALLEY'S NEW BOOK
Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa

Sharing the Peace?
NORTHERN IRELAND, SOUTH AFRICA, THE MIDDLE EAST

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Are there lessons to be learned from the Northern Ireland and South African transitions to peace after decades of conflict? Might the lessons be applied to the process of peace-making in the Middle East and can the practitioners of division inform the path to peace?