Dr. Karen Abi-Ezzi,Assistant Professor
Information about Dr. Karen Abi-Ezzi at the University of Bradford.
- School of Social Sciences
(Faculty of Mgmt, Law & Social Sciences) - Email:
- k.abi-ezzi@bradford.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 1274 235238
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publications.Biography
Karen Abi-Ezzi returned to Peace Studies to work full-time in the summer of 2013 after an extended period of absence (maternity leave 2011-2013). She resumed her role as Director of the MA programme which she has held since 2009 and continues to lecture on theories of mediation and conflict resolution - and particularly on new areas for research uncovered by the application of social constructionism and discourse analysis to the study of processes of mediation; Middle East politics including the Arab Spring, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanese politics and the role NGOs have played in processes of national reconciliation, democracy and processes of democratisation, multiculturalism, political theories and ideologies and on research methods.
Research
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Lebanon, social constructionism and discourse analysis, theories of conflict resolution
Research supervision
Dr. Karen Abi-Ezzi is responsible for the supervision of 4 postgraduate researchers at the University of Bradford.
Teaching
Details on teaching interests, highlights and modules are available for Dr. Karen Abi-Ezzi as follows:
Teaching modules
| Title | Subject | Module code | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theories and Practices of Conflict Resolution | |||
| Politics of International Crisis Response | |||
| Analysing Contemporary Conflict |
Professional activities
Information about education, employment and areas of particular interest for Dr. Karen Abi-Ezzi is as follows:
Education
- University of Kent - MA
- University of Kent - PhD
- Research: Exploring how the web can be used as a conflict resolution/management tool
- Research: Peace research yielded by an inter-disciplinary study of linkages between fear, empathy and compassion.
Employment
- NGO -
- BBC World Service -
Publications
There are 8 publications involving or that are attributed to Dr. Karen Abi-Ezzi. They are listed as:
- article (1)
- book chapter (2)
- book review (2)
- newspaper articles (3)
Article
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Strategy Against Hezbollah that has backfired badly | 2006 | Karen Abi-Ezzi |
Book Chapter
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music and Conflict Transformation | 2015 | Music and Conflict Transformation | Music and Conflict Transformation | Karen Abi-Ezzi | Olivier Urbain | 978 1 78076 425 2 | I.B. Tauris | ||||
| Beyond Settlement: Making Peace Last after Civil Conflict | 2008 | Beyond Settlement: Making Peace Last after Civil Conflict | Beyond Settlement: Making Peace Last after Civil Conflict | Karen Abi-Ezzi | Vanessa E. Shields and Nicholas D. J. Baldwin | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |
Book Review
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach | 2010 | Karen Abi-Ezzi | Times Higher Education | Times Higher Education | |||||||
| Inside Lebanon: a journey to a shattered land with Noam Chomsky and Carol Chomsky. Edited by Assaf Khoury | 2008 | Karen Abi-Ezzi | Chatham House | Blackwell Publishing/Royal Institute of International Affairs |
Newspaper Articles
| Title | Year | Publication name | Journal | Volume | Pages | Authors | Editors | ISSN | Publisher | DOI | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What Turned Four Young Men into Pitiless Killers? | 2005 | Karen Abi-Ezzi | Yorkshire Post | ||||||||
| A Victor who must still win over his people | 2005 | Karen Abi-Ezzi | Yorkshire Post | ||||||||
| Palestine at the Crossroads | 2004 | Karen Abi-Ezzi | Yorkshire Post |