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Dr. Brendan O'Duffy is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Queen Mary, University of London. He received his BA from Boston College, his MA from McGill, and his PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

His main research areas include national and ethnic conflict regulation, political violence, and electoral systems. Much of his research on national and ethnic conflict regulation focuses on Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka, and Cyprus.

Selected Publications

Book Chapters

• 'The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE): Majoritarianism, Self-Determination and Military-to-Political Transitions in Sri Lanka' in M. Heiburg, B. O'Leary and J. Tirman (eds) Terror, Insurgency and States, Philadelphia, PA: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 2006.
• Self Determination and Conflict Regulation in Northern Ireland, Sri Lanka and Beyond, International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo, 2003.

Journal articles

• ‘Exchange theory and conflict regulation: Cyprus through the British-Irish (Northern Irish) Prism’, Hellenic Studies, vol. 11, no. 4 2003 pp. 137-72.
• (with Jonathan Githens-Mazer) 'Status and Statehood: Exchange theory and British-Irish Relations, 1921-41' Commonwealth and Comparative Politics vol. 40, no. 2 July 2002: 120-45.
• 'British and Irish conflict regulation from Sunningdale to Belfast, Part II: Playing for a Draw 1985-1998'. Nations and Nationalism, vol. 6, no. 3, Sept.. 2000.
• 'British and Irish conflict regulation from Sunningdale to Belfast, Part I: tracing the status of contesting sovereigns, 1968-1974'. Nations and Nationalism, vol. 5, no. 4, Nov. 1999.
• co-author with Helen Margetts, Patrick Dunleavy and Stuart Weir Making Votes Count: How Britain would have voted under alternative electoral systems, Joseph Rowntree and Democratic Audit, 1997.
• 'Violence in Northern Ireland 1969 to 1994: Sectarian or Ethno-National?' in Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 18, no.4 1995:740-72.