Conflict Analysis Research Centre

The Conflict Analysis Research Centre (CARC) "at the University of Kent is a multi-disciplinary and multi-site Faculty Research Centre. It is based in the Department of Politics and International Relations but can draw on the expertise of other Departments such as History, Anthropology, the School of Social Policy and Social Science Research, Law, Health Sciences, and the Kent Business School...

"The Conflict Analysis Research Centre takes over from the Center for Conflict and Peace and its forerunner the Centre for the Analysis of Conflict, which was started in 1966 as an inter-university research project working on conflict issues in Malaysia & Singapore, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, Lebanon and South Africa, under the guidance of pioneering academics such as John W. Burton, John Groom, Christopher Mitchell, and Keith Webb. Under Andy Williams, the centre used its Track II negotiation, mediation and diplomatic skills in working with parties in Moldova, Europe's poorest country, to resolve trade and transit differences with Moldova's break-away Transdniestr Region, which remains under the supervision of the 56-nation Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)."

Advisory Panel
Accessed March 2008:


 * Aurelien Colson - Director of Development, ESSEC/IRENE Paris, France
 * Eileen Carroll - Deputy Executive Director, Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) London, UK
 * Susan L. Somers - Former Senior Prosecutor, United Nations War Crimes Tribunal on the Former Yugoslavia
 * Dan Smith - Secretary General, International Alert
 * Andy Carl - Executive Director, Conciliation Resources
 * Stephen Browne - Deputy Executive Director, International Trade Centre/UNCTAD/WTO, Geneva
 * Andrew Williams - St. Andrew's University Scotland, UK (former Director of Center for Conflict & Peace)
 * Oliver Ramsbotham - University of Bradford
 * Edward Newman - University of Birmingham

Administrative staff
Accessed March 2008:


 * Hugh Miall - Director
 * Samuel Passow - Head of Consultancy and Executive Training
 * Neil Melvin - Co-ordinator, Brussels School of International Relations
 * Sabine Duhamel - Co-ordinator, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale (ULCO), in Dunkerque, France

Academic Staff
Accessed March 2008:


 * Gulnur Aybet
 * Florian Bieber
 * Ruth Blakeley
 * Ismene Gizelis
 * Amelia Hadfield
 * Anne Hammerstad
 * Ersun Kurtulus
 * Neil Melvin
 * Hugh Miall
 * Frank Grundig
 * Richard Sakwa
 * Doug Stokes

Contact

 * Web: http://www.kent.ac.uk/politics/carc/advisorypanel/index.html