March 5, 2003

Contested Cities: A Report from Belfast
312-996-8700


The Great Cities Institute is pleased to welcome:

Marie Smyth
Chief Executive of the Institute for Conflict Research
Belfast, Northern Ireland

for an informal breakfast discussion on:

"Contested Cities: A Report from Belfast"

9:00-10:30 a.m.
Wednesday, March 5, 2003

Great Cities Institute
Suite 400
CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria
RSVP: 312-996-8700

Marie Smyth is currently Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington DC, and is CEO of the Institute for Conflict Research, in Belfast, Northern Ireland to which she is seconded from the University of Ulster. She has been active in analyzing the conflict and the peace process in Northern Ireland and has been involved in the two missions to Northern Ireland of Olara Otunnu, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations on Children and Armed Conflict. She also has research interests and experience in Southern and West Africa and in the Middle East. The author of numerous books and articles, her most recent publications include: Northern Ireland After the Good Friday Agreement: Victims, Grievance and Blame. London: Pluto (with Mike Morrissey) (February 2002); Researching Violently Divide Societies: Ethical and Methodological Issues. Tokyo: United Nations University Press. (with Gillian Robinson) (November 2001). She is also the co-author of the award winning Northern Ireland's Troubles: The Human Costs. London: Pluto.1999. (with Marie-Therese Fay and Mike Morrissey).