Publications

Fiction

Still working on it…

Academic

Books

Political Expression and Conflict Transformation in Divided Societies, Routledge 2020 https://www.routledge.com/Political-Expression-and-Conflict-Transformation-in-Divided-Societies-Criminalising/Kirkpatrick/p/book/9780367777661

Front cover of Political Expression and Conflict Transformation in Deeply Divided Societies

Articles

Is Extremism the ‘New’ Terrorism? the Convergence of ‘Extremism’ and ‘Terrorism’ in British Parliamentary Discourse, Terrorism and Political Violence, 2021:33(5) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09546553.2019.1598391

Proscribing the past or de-proscribing the future: a genealogy and critical discourse analysis of proscription in the North of Ireland, 1887–2017, Critical Studies in Terrorism, 2019:12(2) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17539153.2018.1502235

Why Negotiate When You Can Criminalize? Lessons for Conflict Transformation from Northern Ireland and South Africa, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2018: 41(8) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2017.1338055

Media

Not all types of extremism are terrorism – conflating the two is dangerous, The Conversation 11 Sept 2019 https://theconversation.com/not-all-types-of-extremism-are-terrorism-conflating-the-two-is-dangerous-116211

Game of Thrones: will there ever be peace on Westeros? The Conversation 28 July 2017 https://theconversation.com/game-of-thrones-will-there-ever-be-peace-on-westeros-81407

Why criminalising non-violent extremism won’t prevent terrorism, The Conversation 13 June 2017 https://theconversation.com/why-criminalising-non-violent-extremism-wont-prevent-terrorism-78973

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