Ian McBride (Oxford), The Lessons of the Northern Ireland Peace Process

Name: The Lessons of the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Start: 2026-10-15T17:00:00+0100
End: 2026-10-15T18:30:00+0100

Date: Thursday 15 October
Time: 17:00
Venue: Magdalen College, Auditorium

Ever since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998, peace-makers and politicians have commended Northern Ireland as a model of conflict resolution. But what are the lessons of the peace process? Is it always a good idea to talk to terrorists? Should negotiations be inclusive, and what is the relationship between democracy and disarmament of militant groups? Does the participation of women make it more likely that conflict resolution will succeed? And is it really our business, as historians, to help identify the lessons of the past?

There will be a drinks reception after the lecture. All are very welcome.

Duncan Kelly (Univeristy of Cambridge), Worlds of Wartime: The First World War and the Reconstruction of Modern Politics

16 October

5th Anthony Gwilliam Annual Lecture 2026

Heena (University of Leicester), Beyond British Criticism: Religion, Print and Astrological Writings in 19th-century North India

19 October

South Asian Intellectual History Seminar

Book Discussion: Teresa Bejan (Oxford), First Among Equals: Visions of Equality Before Egalitarianism

19 October

Oxford Political Thought Seminar

18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh (University of Amsterdam), Consider the Mantis: IKaggen, Means of Subsistence, and Misunderstanding Across the Cape Colonial Frontier

20 October

Global Intellectual History Seminar