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Dr. Karen Abi-Ezzi

Assistant Professor

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School of Social Sciences
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Dr. Karen Abi-Ezzi

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 resolution

Teaching

Modules

  • Theories and Practices of Conflict Resolution - PES7064-B
  • Politics of International Crisis Response - PES6019-B
  • Analysing Contemporary Conflict - PES5018-B

Professional activities

  •  University of Kent - MA
  •  University of Kent - PhD

  • NGO -
  • BBC World Service -

  • Research: Exploring how the web can be used as a conflict resolution/management tool
  • Research: Peace research yielded by an inter-disciplinary study of linkages between fear, empathy and compassion.

Publications

  • A Strategy Against Hezbollah that has backfired badly

    Karen Abi-Ezzi (2006)

  • Music and Conflict Transformation

    Karen Abi-Ezzi (2015) Music and Conflict Transformation. In Olivier Urbain editor(s) I.B. Tauris.

  • Beyond Settlement: Making Peace Last after Civil Conflict

    Karen Abi-Ezzi (2008) Beyond Settlement: Making Peace Last after Civil Conflict. In Vanessa E. Shields and Nicholas D. J. Baldwin editor(s) Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

  • Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach

    Karen Abi-Ezzi (2010) Times Higher Education.

  • Inside Lebanon: a journey to a shattered land with Noam Chomsky and Carol Chomsky. Edited by Assaf Khoury

    Karen Abi-Ezzi (2008) Blackwell Publishing/Royal Institute of International Affairs.

  • What Turned Four Young Men into Pitiless Killers?

    Karen Abi-Ezzi (2005) Yorkshire Post.

  • A Victor who must still win over his people

    Karen Abi-Ezzi (2005) Yorkshire Post.

  • Palestine at the Crossroads

    Karen Abi-Ezzi (2004) Yorkshire Post.