John Brewer is Professor of Post Conflict Studies in the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. He was awarded an Honorary DSocSci from Brunel University and is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Fellow in the Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has held visiting appointments at Yale University, St John’s College Oxford, Corpus Christi College Cambridge and the Australia National University. He has been President of the British Sociological Association. He is Honorary Professor Extraordinary at Stellenbosch University and is a member of the United Nations Roster of Global Experts. He is the author or co-author of sixteen books and editor or co-editor of a further six.

E-mail:  j.brewer@qub.ac.uk | Tel: +27 21 808 4047

Recent Publications

Books

Brewer, J. D. (2022). Advanced introduction to the sociology of peace processes. Edward Elgar Publishing.

Brewer, J. D., Wahidin, A. (Eds.). (2021). Ex-combatants’ voices: Transitioning from war to peace in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka. Palgarve Macmillan: Springer.

Book Chapters

Brewer, J. D. (2021). Listening to ex-combatants’ voices. In J. D. Brewer & A. Wahadin (Eds.), Ex-combatants’ voices: Transitioning from war to peace in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka (pp. 11-34). Palgrave Macmillan: Springer.

Brewer, J. D. (2021). ‘Sin by silence’: The claims to moral legitimacy amongst Northern Irish paramilitaries. In J. D. Brewer & A. Wahadin (Eds.), Ex-combatants’ voices: Transitioning from war to peace in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka (pp. 93-122). Palgrave Macmillan: Springer.

Brewer, J. D. (2021). C. Wright Mills and the public sociology of peace. In The Routledge international handbook of C. Wright Mills studies (pp. 115-126). Routledge.

Brewer, J. D. (2021). Religion peacebuilding. The Oxford handbook of peacebuilding, state building and peace formation (pp. 520- 531).

Brewer, J. D. (2022). Sociological conceptualizations of religion and peace making. The Wiley Blackwell companion to religion and peace (pp. 497-508).

Brewer, J. D., & Herron, S. (2021). British counter-insurgency veterans in Afghanistan. In J. D. Brewer & A. Wahadin (Eds.), Ex-combatants’ voices: Transitioning from war to peace in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka (pp. 123-147). Palgrave Macmillan: Springer.