Dr. McEvoy-Levy

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Dr. Siobhán McEvoy-Levy
Associate Professor

EMAIL: smcevoy@butler.edu
OFFICE: JH 347
PHONE: (317) 940-9465

Academic Appointments

Publications

Invited Talks and Honoraria

Teaching and Research Fields

Butler Courses

Links

Conference Papers and Panel Chairing/Organizing

Education Ph.D., University of Cambridge, 1999 M. Phil. International Relations, University of Cambridge, 1991-1992 B.A. Joint Hons. Politics and English Literature (First Class), The Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1988 - 1991 Diploma in Journalism (With Distinction), College of Business Studies, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1986-1987
Academic Appointments 2006 Associate Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of Peace and Conflict Studies. 2003-05 Assistant Professor of Political Science and Coordinator of Peace and Conflict Studies 2001-03 Butler University, Visiting Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies 2000-01 Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies and Visiting Fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1999-2000, Visiting Fellow, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, 1996-99 Lecturer in Political Science and Change and Tradition, Butler University,	Butler Courses PO101 Introduction to Politics PO102 Introduction to Peace Studies PO 141 Introduction to International Politics PO 355 United States Foreign Policy PO 490 Senior Seminar: Youth, Violence and Peace PO 380 Topics: International Conflict and Peace Building PO 380 Northern Ireland Between War and Peace PO380 Understanding the Israel-Palestine Conflict PO380 Topics: Political Communication ID 201/2 Change and Tradition: Cultural and Historical Perspectives CC213P Gender and Generation in War and Peace Advising: Honors Theses, Independent Studies, Student Apprentices, Internships
Publications Books American Exceptionalism and U.S. Foreign Policy, Public Diplomacy at the End of the Cold War (Palgrave 2001). Post-War Reconstruction: Challenges of Violence, Truth and Youth. Co-authored with Tristan Anne Borer and John Darby. Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame/Notre Dame University Press, 2006. Troublemakers or Peacemakers? Youth and Post-Accord Peacebuilding, Editor (and Contributor). (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).’ Articles and Chapters in Books: ‘Children Born of Wartime Rape and Human Rights Culture’, in Born of War: Sexual Violence, Children's Human Rights and the Global Community, R. Charli Carpenter, ed. Kumarian Press, Forthcoming 2007. ‘Youth Narratives in Contested Spaces And Their Implications For Youthwork’. In Work With Youth in Divided and Contested Societies. Doug Magnusson and Mike Baizerman (eds.) Rotterdam: Sense Publishing 2007 ‘Silenced Voices?: Youth and Peer Relationships in Armed Conflict and its Aftermath,’ in A World Turned Upside Down: Social Ecological Aproaches to Children In Armed Conflict, Neil Boothby, Alison Strang, Michael Wessells (eds). Kumarian Press, 2006. ‘Politics, Protest and Local Power-Sharing in North Belfast.’ in McEvoy-Levy (ed.). Troublemakers or Peacemakers? (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). ‘Youth and the Post-Accord Environment’ in McEvoy-Levy (ed.). Troublemakers or Peacemakers? (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). ‘Youth and Post-Accord Peacebuilding’in McEvoy-Levy (ed.). Troublemakers or Peacemakers? (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006). ‘Youth as Social and Political Agents: Issues in Post-Settlement Peace Building’, Kroc Institute, Occasional Paper 21:OP:2, December 2001. ‘Youth, Violence and Conflict Transformation’, Peace Review, 13:1, March 2001. 'Communities and Peace: Catholic Youth in Northern Ireland', Journal of Peace Research, vol. 1, 2000
Teaching and Research Fields Peace and Conflict Studies Children and Youth International Politics/Relations U.S. Foreign Policy Political Communication	Links UNICEF Save the Children USIP.org Children In War PBS News The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Butler For Peace

Conference Papers and Panel Chair/Organizing

Conference Papers

“ ‘Where do I begin?’ ‘When Peace is Not a Real Goal’. Exploring Trauma and Knowledge in Conflict and Post-Conflict Narratives,” Conference on Peacebuilding and Trauma Recovery. Integrated Strategies in Post-War Reconstruction. University of Denver, February 22-24. 2007.
‘Caught between Child Rights and Security’: Youth and Post-War Peacebuilding’. Strategic Peacebuilding: The State of the Art’ Conference at Joan B. Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, November 5-7. 2006.
‘Youth, Public Security, and Education for Human Rights.’ International Studies Association, Annual Conference, San Diego, 2006.
‘“War Babies” and Human Rights Culture in War-Torn Societies’, International Studies Association, Annual Conference, Hawaii 2005.
‘Troublemakers AND Peacemakers. Youth and Peacebuilding After Peace Accords’ for International Studies Association, Annual Conference, Hawaii 2005.
‘Starting Something New: Following the Children Born of Wartime Rape Towards Human Rights Culture’, for ‘War Babies: Theorizing Children Born of Wartime Rape and Sexual Exploitation’, a Workshop at the University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 13, 2004.
‘Youth-Generated Themes for Peacebuilding through Local ‘Powersharing’: Views from North Belfast’, Research Initiative on Resolution of Ethnic Conflict Conference on ‘Peacebuilding after Peace Accords”, University of Notre Dame, September 2003.
‘Youth and Post-Accord Peace Building: A Research Agenda’, Research Initiative on Ethnic Conflict Resolution, Workshop, Notre Dame, September 2002.
'Youth as Social and Political Agents: Issues in Post-Settlement Peace Building', Fifth International Conference of the Ethnic Studies Network Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland 27-30 June 2001.
'Next Generations: Ethnic Socialization, Memory and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland', International Studies Association Annual Convention, Chicago, February 2001.
'Youth and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: Paradoxes and Lessons', International Studies Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, March 2000.
'When Themes Justify Ends: Studying Presidential Rhetoric to Explain U.S. Foreign Policy', American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, September 1999.
"Soft power" Interventions: The Case of U.S. Policy Towards Northern Ireland' (poster), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, September 1999.
'Building International Community: The Uses of Exceptionalism in the Public Diplomacy of Bush and Clinton, 1989 to 1993', American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Boston, September 1998.
'Community, Communities, and Politics: The Case of Catholic Youth in Northern Ireland' (poster), American Political Science Association Annual Conference, Boston, September 1998.
'Coming to Terms with History: The Official Interpretation of the End of the Cold War', at the International Studies Midwest Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, September 1995.

Panel Chairing/organizing

2006 Organizer, ‘Moving from Armed Conflict to Sustainable Peace: Critical Issues in Peace Processes and Post-Agreement Peacebuilding’, International Studies Association, Annual Convention, San Diego.
2005 Chair, ‘Discourses of War Panel’, International Studies Association, Annual Conference, Hawaii 2005
2003 Chair, ‘Childhood Trauma and Challenges of Reconciliation Panel’, Research Initiative on Resolution of Ethnic Conflict Conference on ‘Peacebuilding after Peace Accords’, University of Notre Dame, September 2003.
2003 Chair, ‘Transition Politics/Violence and Next Generations Panel’, Research Initiative on Resolution of Ethnic Conflict Conference on ‘Peacebuilding after Peace Accords’, University of Notre Dame, September 2003.
2001 Chair, 'Do Good Things Really Go Together? Human Rights and Peace', United States Institute for Peace Conference, University of Notre Dame, April 2001.
2001 Chair, 'The Waning of Major War' Conference, University of Notre Dame, March 2001.
2001 Organizer - Post-Agreement Peace Building in Northern Ireland, International Studies Association, 42nd Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, February 2001.
2001 Chair, Contemporary Issues in Conflict Resolution Panel, International Studies Association 42nd Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois, February 2001.
1999 - Organizer: Youth and Peacebuilding: Lessons from Societies in Conflict and Transition, International Studies Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, 2000.

Invited Talks and Honoraria

Panelist, 'Political Science Perspectives on 9-11', Butler University, September 2002.
Guest appearance on 'Consider This' IUPUI/Community Access Television, July 2002, topic: Child Soldiers.
"Teens as Agents of Violence, Agents of Peace', Presentation to Catholic Relief Services Peace Building Institute, University of Notre Dame, July 2001
'Ethnic Conflict and Human Rights', United States Institute for Peace Faculty Development Workshop, University of Northern Iowa, April 2001.
'Youth, Violence and Conflict Transformation in Northern Ireland', Keough Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame, March 2001.
'Thinking Globally About Religion and Human Rights: A Response to Dr. Abdullahi An-Na'im', Religion and Human Rights in Global Perspective, Butler University Public Seminar on Religion and World Civilization, September 19, 2000.
'Children and War in Northern Ireland,' Woodrow Wilson Foundation Teachers and Scholars Program, University of Notre Dame, April 2000.
'Women in the World', Global Issues Seminar for High School Students, University of Notre Dame, July 2000.
' "This Island's Mine" or "Brave New World": Young People and the Work of Peace in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland', Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame, March, 2000.
'Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism,' Indiana Council on World Affairs, March 1997.
'Gender and Northern Ireland', Butler University Fall 1996.
'Prospects for Peace in Northern Ireland', Butler University, Fall 1994.

Dr. Siobhán McEvoy-Levy Associate Professor EMAIL: smcevoy@butler.edu OFFICE: JH 347 PHONE: (317) 940-9465

Links UNICEF Save the Children USIP.org Children In War PBS News The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Butler For Peace

Dr. Siobhán McEvoy-Levy
Associate Professor

EMAIL: smcevoy@butler.edu
OFFICE: JH 347
PHONE: (317) 940-9465

Links
UNICEF
Save the Children
USIP.org
Children In War
PBS News
The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
Butler For Peace