Dr Craig Larkin
LLB, LLM (Queens, Belfast) PhD (Exeter)
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Telephone: 01392 723951
Research Fellow, Conflict in Cities
Craig works alongside Professor Mick Dumper in a 5 year ESRC funded project, ‘Conflict in Cities and the Contested State: everyday life and the possibilities of transformation in Belfast, Jerusalem and other divided cities.’ The project focuses on divided cities as key sites in territorial conflicts over state and national identities, cultures and borders. A team of researchers from the Universities of Cambridge, Queen’s Belfast and Exeter, lead the multi-disciplinary initiative that includes: architecture, urban studies, politics, geography and sociology.
He received his PhD in Middle East Studies from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter in April 2009. His doctoral thesis 'Memory and Conflict : Remembering and Forgetting the Past in Lebanon' examined issues of identity, trauma and memory, and approaches to conflict resolution in post war Lebanon. This research emerged from having spent four year in the Middle East (2001-2004), studying Arabic at Damascus University while also assisting in community development NGO projects in Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq. Craig's current research interests include: the politics of memory and identity; urban and social division and conflict; Islamist movements and processes of reconciliation and forgiveness.
