Brandon Hamber

Brandon Hamber

Professor and John Hume and Thomas P. O'Neill Chair in Peace at Ulster University

Areas of expertise

Reparations  /  Transitional Justice  /  Reconciliation  /  Dialogue  /  Mental Health  /  Memorialization  /  Masculinities

Professor Brandon Hamber is the John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace at Ulster University based at the International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE). He is a member of the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University. He is also a board member of Healing Through Remembering (Northern Ireland) and Impunity Watch (Netherlands). He is on the Society Advisory Group of the British Council.

Professor Hamber has undertaken consulting and research work and participated in various peace and reconciliation initiatives in Northern Ireland, South Africa, Liberia, Mozambique, Bosnia, Colombia, the Basque Country and Sierra Leone, among others.

He has written extensively on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the psychological implications of political violence, and the process of transition and reconciliation in South Africa, Northern Ireland and abroad.

Professor Hamber has lectured and taught widely, including, on the International Trauma Studies Programme at Colombia University, New York and the Post-War and Reconstruction Unit, University of York; and at the University of Ulster. In 2010-2013 he was a Mellon Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has been awarded The Paul Harris medal for contributions to peace by Rotary (2013) and was listed as one of the Top 100: The most influential people in armed violence reduction by the Action on Armed Violence Network (2013/2014).

Publications

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Lessons from Transitional Justice? Toward a New Framing of a Victim-Centered Approach in the Case of Historical Institutional Abuse

April 2020

Brandon Hamber, Patricia Lundy

An International Journal of Evidence-based Research, Policy, and Practice Volume 15, 2020 - Issue 6

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Cover of the book Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding

Psychosocial Perspectives on Peacebuilding

2015

Brandon Hamber, Gallagher Elizabeth (Eds.)

Springer

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There Is a Crack in Everything: Problematising Masculinities, Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice

2015

Brandon Hamber

Human Rights Review, 17 (1), Springer

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Cover of the book Transforming Societies after Political Violence: Truth, Reconciliation, and Mental Health

Transforming Societies after Political Violence: Truth, Reconciliation, and Mental Health

2009

Brandon Hamber

Springer

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LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights: What our Alumni Say

22 January 2024

As a Human Rights Officer with the UN Mission in South Sudan, Andrew Botz supports investigations into alleged violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in the context of the armed conflict in the country. In this interview, he tells about the programme, fond memories and what it brought to his career.

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MAS in Transitional Justice: What our Alumni Say

13 February 2024

As an Associate at the International Committee of the Red Cross in the Persons Deprived of Liberty Unit, Hiran Geeganage supports the development of a methodology for monitoring and reporting on the institution’s detention activities. In this interview, he tells about the programme, fond memories and what it brought to his career.

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Executive Master in International Law in Armed Conflict: What Participants Say

4 April 2024

María Gonzalez García, a Project Manager and Technical Advisor at the UN World Food Programme, enrolled in our online Executive Master, tells about the programme and what it brings to her career.

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