Dr Karen Abi-Ezzi
Assistant Professor
| Faculty/Dept/School |
School of Social Sciences (Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences) |
|---|---|
| k.abi-ezzi@bradford.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | +441274 235238 |
Biography
Karen Abi-Ezzi returned to Peace Studies to work full-time in the summer of 2013 after an extended period of absence (maternity leave 2011-2013). She resumed her role as Director of the MA programme which she has held since 2009 and continues to lecture on theories of mediation and conflict resolution - and particularly on new areas for research uncovered by the application of social constructionism and discourse analysis to the study of processes of mediation; Middle East politics including the Arab Spring, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanese politics and the role NGOs have played in processes of national reconciliation, democracy and processes of democratisation, multiculturalism, political theories and ideologies and on research methods.
Research
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, social constructionism and discourse analysis, theories of conflict resolutionTeaching
| Year | Module code | Title | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| PES7064-B | Theories and Practices of Conflict Resolution | ||
| PES6019-B | Politics of International Crisis Response | ||
| PES5018-B | Analysing Contemporary Conflict |
Professional activities
- University of Kent - MA
- University of Kent - PhD
- BBC World Service -
- NGO -
- Programme & Module Management: Peace Studies Management Team
- Research Group Leadership: Peace Studies Programme Revision Task Group
- Other: Peace Studies Bursaries Committee
- Research: Peace research yielded by an inter-disciplinary study of linkages between fear, empathy and compassion.
- Research: Exploring how the web can be used as a conflict resolution/management tool
Publications
| Title | Music and Conflict Transformation (2015) |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Abi-Ezzi |
| Journal | Music and Conflict Transformation |
| Publisher | I.B. Tauris |
| Title | Beyond Settlement: Making Peace Last after Civil Conflict (2008) |
| Authors | Karen Abi-Ezzi |
| Journal | Beyond Settlement: Making Peace Last after Civil Conflict |
| Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
| Other type | Book Review |
|---|---|
| Title | Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach (2010) |
| Authors | Karen Abi-Ezzi |
| Publisher | Times Higher Education |
| Other type | Book Review |
| Title | Inside Lebanon: a journey to a shattered land with Noam Chomsky and Carol Chomsky. Edited by Assaf Khoury (2008) |
| Authors | Karen Abi-Ezzi |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishing/Royal Institute of International Affairs |
| Other type | Article |
| Title | A Strategy Against Hezbollah that has backfired badly (2006) |
| Authors | Karen Abi-Ezzi |
| Other type | Newspaper Articles |
| Title | A Victor who must still win over his people (2005) |
| Authors | Karen Abi-Ezzi |
| Publisher | Yorkshire Post |
| Other type | Newspaper Articles |
| Title | What Turned Four Young Men into Pitiless Killers? (2005) |
| Authors | Karen Abi-Ezzi |
| Publisher | Yorkshire Post |
| Other type | Newspaper Articles |
| Title | Palestine at the Crossroads (2004) |
| Authors | Karen Abi-Ezzi |
| Publisher | Yorkshire Post |