Biography and speech of Professor Colin Knox and Professor John Darby

John Darby is Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the Kroc Institute in the University of Notre Dame, where he is Director of the Research Initiative for the Resolution of Ethnic Conflict (RIREC). He was founding director of INCORE, a joint programme of the Tokyo-based United Nations University and the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He has held visiting positions in Harvard and Duke Universities, and has been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio (1990), the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington (1992), the United States Institute of Peace (1998), and the Fulbright New Century Scholars’ Program (2002). He has written or edited eleven books, and more than 100 other academic publications, mostly dealing with ethnic conflict internationally.

Colin Knox is Professor of Public Policy in the School of Policy Studies at the University of Ulster in Jordanstown. He has been an active researcher in the field of community relations since the early 1990s when he and colleagues evaluated the first District Council Community Relations programme, then funded by CCRU. At present he is involved in an ESRC study (with Dr. Paul Carmichael) on the Review of Public Administration which is considering reform proposals for local government, non-departmental public bodies and government agencies, under devolution.