Michael Kerr is Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics where he completed his PhD in 2003. Michael is also a graduate of the LSE’s Government Department (1999) and the University of Essex’s Government Department (1998). 
He specializes in ethnic conflict regulation and power-sharing in divided societies. His present research interests focus on conflict in the Middle East and Northern Ireland. He is currently writing a political history of British direct rule in Northern Ireland from 1972-79 and lecturing on political Islam. Michael is also a Visiting Research Fellow at the Chr. Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway.

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Selected Publications

• Kerr, Michael. ’Internationalising the Arms Issue: The Politics of Decommissioning in Northern Ireland and Lebanon.’ In Transforming the Peace Process in Northern Ireland: From Terrorism to Democratic Politics. Edited by Edwards, A. and Bloomer, S. Dublin, Portland OR: Irish Academic Press, (forthcoming 2008)

• Kerr, Michael. 'Approaches to power-sharing in Northern Ireland and Lebanon.' In Ireland and the Middle East: Trade, society and peace. Edited by Miller, R. Dublin, Portland OR: Irish Academic Press, 2007.
   
• Kerr, Michael. 'The philosophy of Lebanese power-sharing.' In Breaking the cycle: Civil wars in Lebanon. Edited by Choueiri, Y. Oxford: Centre for Lebanese Studies, 2007.
   
• Kerr, Michael. Imposing power-sharing: conflict and coexistence in Northern Ireland and Lebanon. Foreword by O’Leary, B. Dublin, Portland OR: Irish Academic Press, 2005.
   
• Kerr, M. Transforming unionism: David Trimble and the 2005 general election. Dublin, Portland OR: Irish Academic Press, 2005.