Mari Fitzduff
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Mari Christine Fitzduff (born March 15, 1947, in Dublin) is an Irish policy maker, writer and academic. She began her work in peacebuilding and mediation working with universities during the Northern Ireland conflict before setting up a mediation organisation in 1989. In 1990 she was a founding director of the Community Relations Council, set up to help develop and fund peace initiatives in Northern Ireland.
Ftizduff was later part of forming INCORE, a United Nations conflict policy research center at the University of Ulster. In 2004 she became founding director of the international Masters of Conflict and Coexistence program at the Heller School in Brandeis University, Waltham, US.
Career
Fitzduff began professional peacebuilding work in 1986. Living in Northern Ireland during the conflict in 1969-1998, she set up the first courses in conflict resolution and mediation in both Queen's University Belfast and Ulster University. She went on to found Mediation Northern Ireland in 1988,{{Inconsistent|about=the year of founding Mediation Northern Ireland|date=October 2023}}{{cn|date=October 2023}} an organisation which trained and supplied mediators for community and political mediations throughout Northern Ireland in the context of the conflict.{{Cite web|title=Mediation Northern Ireland|url=https://mediationnorthernireland.org/|access-date=2021-08-02|website=mediationnorthernireland.org}}
From 1990-97 she was the Founding Director of the Community Relations Council{{cn|date=October 2023}}, an independent body that was funded by both British and European funds. It helped develop and fund many of the conflict resolution initiatives in Northern Ireland.{{Cite web|title=Welcome to Community Relations Council {{!}} Community Relations Council|url=https://www.community-relations.org.uk/|access-date=2021-08-02|website=www.community-relations.org.uk}}
From 1997-2003, she held a chair in conflict Resolution at the University of Ulster where she was the Director of UNU/INCORE, an International Conflict Research Institute which was a joint initiative of the United Nations University and the University of Ulster. It conducts policy relevant international research on conflict issues around the world.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ulster.ac.uk/incore|title = INCORE| date=12 March 2020 }}
In 2004, she became the Founding Director of the Masters Conflict and Coexistence programme at Brandeis University, which is an international program, for experienced professionals from conflict regions around the world.{{Cite web|url=https://heller.brandeis.edu/coexistence/about/index.html|title = About Us - Master's in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence}}
Degrees
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- New University of Ulster, Ph.D. Social Psychology
- Queen's University, Belfast Diploma Management
- University of Ulster, MA
- University of Ulster, Diploma
- Trinity College Dublin, Diploma Education
- University College Dublin (UCD), BA
Quotes
"Nobody wants the final compromise to come too quickly ... because it's the end of the dream for both sides. It will have to be a perforated border as opposed to a united Ireland, and Unionists will have to abandon dreams of complete unity with the British motherland".{{cite web|last=Clarity|first=James F.|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E7DB1631F935A15753C1A961958260&sec=&spon=&pagewan|title=Irish Take Heart as Peace Takes Hold|location=Belfast (Northern Ireland); Northern Ireland|work=New York Times|date=1997-10-26|accessdate=2015-07-16}}
Publications
- {{Cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/our-brains-at-war-9780197512654?cc=gb&lang=en&|isbn = 978-0-19-751265-4|title = Our Brains at War: The Neuroscience of Conflict and Peacebuilding|author1-last=Fitzduff|author1-first=Mari|date = 30 September 2021|publisher = Oxford University Press}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07MWW48NR/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1|title = Dialogue in divided societies: Skills for working with groups in conflict|author1-last=Fitzduff|author1-first=Mari|author2-last=Williams|author2-first=Sue|date = 16 January 2019}}
- {{Cite book|title=Why Irrational Politics Appeals: Understanding the Allure of Trump|date=2017-02-13|id={{ASIN|1440855145|country=uk}} |editor-last=Fitzduff|editor-first=Mari|publisher=Praeger Press}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9781137276315|doi = 10.1057/9781137276322|title = Public Policies in Shared Societies|year = 2013|editor-last=Fitzduff|editor-first=Mari|isbn = 978-1-349-44661-2 }}
- {{Cite book|last=Fitzduff|first=Mari|title=The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts: From War to Peace|date=2005-12-30|isbn=0275982017 |editor-last=Stout|editor-first=Chris E.|publisher=Praeger Press}}
- {{cite web|url=https://collections.unu.edu/view/UNU:2424|title = Beyond violence : Conflict resolution in Northern Ireland|year = 2002|last1 = Fitzduff|first1 = Mari|publisher=UN University Press/Brookings}}
- {{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/Community-Conflict-Skills-Handbook-Anti-Sectarian/dp/B0032Q80N8|title = Community Conflict Skills: A Handbook for Anti-Sectarian Work in Northern Ireland|date = January 1988|last1 = Fitzduff|first1 = Mari| publisher=Community Conflict Skills Project | isbn=978-0-9513209-0-7 }}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070209042443/http://israel.usembassy.gov/publish/speakers/fitzduff.html Distinguished Speaker Series: Mari Fitzduff, Ph.D. - israel.usembassy.gov]
- [https://archive.today/20060320234129/http://www.beyondintractability.org/audio/10479/ Beyondintractability.org]
- [http://heller.brandeis.edu/facultyguide/person.html?emplid=c43fdff1c62e4b3204b6f39b28daf78c95adbf21 Mari Fitzduff - Brandeis University - Overview - scholarworks.brandeis.edu]
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Category:Women educators from Northern Ireland
Category:20th-century educators from Northern Ireland
Category:21st-century educators from Northern Ireland