Understanding Peace and Conflict Through Social Identity Theory Contemporary Global Perspectives

  Shelley McKeown Jone s is lecturer in the psychology of education at the University of Bristol. She teaches social psychology and research methods on the MSc Psychology of Education programme. Her research focuses on how social psychological theories, such as intergroup contact theory and social identity theory, can be used to understand and improve intergroup relations. Shelley has published a number of journal articles and a book on identity, segregation and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland.

Reeshma Haji (PhD. York University) is an assistant professor in psychology at Laurentian University. She teaches courses in social psychology and research design and also supervises undergraduate and graduate research. Her research focuses on intergroup relations of religious groups and minority group identities in diverse societies. Dr. Haji has published journal articles and book chapters that have applied social psychological perspectives to religiousidentity and interfaith relations.

  Neil Ferguson  (D.Phil., Ulster, 1998) is Professor of Political Psychology at Liverpool Hope University. His research and writings deal with moral development and a number of topics located within political psychology. Professor Ferguson is currently the President of the MOSAIC - Moral and Social Action Interdisciplinary Colloquium and is a member of the Governing Council for the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP). He also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Moral Education and the Journal of Social and Political Psychology and is a trustee of the Journal of Moral Education Trust.