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Dr Dylan O’Driscoll
Associate Senior Fellow
Dr Dylan O’Driscoll
Dr Dylan O’Driscoll is an Associate Senior Fellow in the SIPRI Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Programme. He is also Associate Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) at Coventry University. Dylan’s work focuses on the drivers of conflict and pathways to peace in the MENA Region and beyond. He is particularly interested in understanding people’s behaviour in relation to acts of peace and conflict at the everyday level. He previously held the Conflict Research Fellowship at the Social Science Research Council, New York and worked as a Researcher and Lecturer at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI) at the University of Manchester. He was also previously Research Fellow at the Middle East Research Institute, Iraq, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Polish Institute for International Affairs. Dylan has spent over two years working and conducting research in Iraq and has published widely in both policy and academia.
Subject expertise
Conflict, peacebuilding, power sharing, nationalism, marginalisation, inclusion
Regional expertise
Middle East, Northern Ireland, South Africa
CONTACT Dr Dylan O’Driscoll
Languages
English, Afrikaans, Kurdish
Education
PhD in Ethnopolitics, University of Exeter, United Kingdom
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Cultural reconstruction is critical after Islamic State occupation (Essay, )
- The resurgence of the Islamic State in Iraq: Political and military responses (Essay, )
- Tensions on Iraqi soil likely to overshadow anti-government protest demands (Blog, )
- The opportunity for local peacebuilding interventions: The case of Kirkuk (Essay, )
- Governing the ‘ungoverned’: Suppressing the Islamic State’s insurgency in Iraq (Blog, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Iraq (2023) (SIPRI, Stockholm : April 2023)
- Climate, Peace and Security Fact Sheet: Iraq (2022) (SIPRI, Stockholm : April 2022)
- Post-conflict Reconstruction in the Nineveh Plains of Iraq: Agriculture, Cultural Practices and Social Cohesion (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2022)
- Reform within the System: Governance in Iraq and Lebanon (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2021)
- Conflict Mediation and Peacebuilding in the Sahel: The Role of Maghreb Countries in an African Framework (SIPRI, Stockholm: January 2021)
- Protest and State–Society Relations in the Middle East and North Africa (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2020)
- Building Everyday Peace in Kirkuk, Iraq: The Potential of Locally Focused Interventions (September 2019)
External publications
- O’Driscoll, D. and Bourhrous, A., Occupying Space in the Kirkuk Bazaar: an intersectional analysis, Peacebuilding (Oct 2022)
- O’Driscoll, D., Everyday peace and conflict: (un)privileged interactions in Kirkuk, Iraq, Third World Quarterly (2021)
- O'Driscoll, D., Constantini, I. and Serhun, A., Federal versus Unitary States: Ethnic Accommodation of Tamils and Kurds, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, 26:4, 351-368 (Jan 2021)
- O'Driscoll, D., Vogel, B. et al, Reading socio-political and spatial dynamics through graffiti in conflict-affected societies, Third World Quarterly (2020)
- O’Driscoll, D., and Baser, B., Referendums as a political party gamble: A critical analysis of the Kurdish referendum for independence, International Political Science Review (Nov 2019)
- Costantini, I. and O’Driscoll, D., Practices and Narratives of Citizenship: Islamic State-Induced Displacement in Northern Iraq, Ethnicities, 20(3), 481–500; (2019)
- O’Driscoll, D. and Baser, B., Independence Referendums and Nationalist Rhetoric: The Kurdistan Region of Iraq, Third World Quarterly, Vol. 40, No. 11, pp. 2016-2034 (May 2019)
- O’Driscoll, D., Physical and Societal (Re)construction in Nineveh post Islamic State in Politics of Post-Conflict Reconstruction Studies 30, pp. 28-33 (2018)
- O’Driscoll, D., Conflict in Kirkuk: A Comparative Perspective of Cross-Regional Self-Determination Disputes, Ethnopolitics, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 37-54 (2018)
- O’Driscoll, D. and van Zoonen, D., The Future of Iraq: Is Reintegration Possible?, Middle East Policy, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 34-47 (2017)
- O’Driscoll, D., Autonomy Impaired: Centralisation, Authoritarianism and the Failing Iraqi State, Ethnopolitics, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 315-332 (2017)
- O’Driscoll, D. and van Zoonen, D., The Hashd al-Shaabi and Iraq: Subnationalism and the State, MERI Policy Report, pp. 1-52 (March 2017)
- O’Driscoll, D., Liberating Mosul: Beyond the Battle, Middle East Policy, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 61-73 (2016)
- O’Driscoll, D., U.S. Policy in Iraq: Searching for the Reverse Gear?, Middle East Policy, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 34-41 (2016)
- O’Driscoll, D., The Future of Mosul: Before, During, and After the Liberation, MERI Policy Report, pp. 1-60 (Sep 2016)
- O’Driscoll, D., Is Kurdish in Turkey Endangered? A Comparison between the Politics of Linguicide in Ireland and Turkey, Journal for Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 270-288 (2014)
- O’Driscoll, D., The Costs of Inadequacy: Violence and Elections in Iraq, Ethnopolitics Papers, vol. 27, pp. 1-29 (2014)