Dr Yumi Omori is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest, holding a prestigious Stellenbosch University fellowship. She obtained PhD in Sociology from Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, for her thesis titled ‘Motherhood during and after ‘the Troubles’: The Family as a Space of Everyday Life Peacebuilding’. Originally from Japan, Yumi has extensive experience working, studying and researching in international environments. She holds MA (with Distinction) in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice from Queen’s University Belfast, MA in International Studies and BA in English and Area Studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. She is a former Researcher/Adviser at the Embassy of Japan in Dublin, Ireland.

Current research project

Yumi’s broad research concerns the sociology of peace processes and gender. In particular, her research focuses on mothering/motherhood in war-torn and post-conflict societies, interrogating their neglected roles in transgenerational peacebuilding processes at the grassroots of societies. Currently, she is expanding her research on motherhood during and after ‘the Troubles’ in Northern Ireland and aiming to collect a new dataset in post-apartheid South Africa by interviewing women who have been raising their children in a ‘new’ South Africa with memories and trauma from the violent past. Employing qualitative methods, her research interests include peace and conflict studies, sociologies of everyday life, family, risk, transgenerational trauma and intergroup relations in divided societies.

Email: yummy1426@gmail.com

Tel: +27 21 808 4047