Staff profile

Research Interests

Roger Mac Ginty works on peace and conflict, particularly on the intersection between top-down and bottom-up approaches to peacemaking. He is interested in everyday peace and the different ways in which this might be captured. He co-directs the Everyday Peace Indicators project (with Pamina Firchow) and edits the Taylor and Francis journal Peacebuilding (with Oliver Richmond). He also edits the "Rethinking Political Violence" book series. His articles have been published in Cooperation and Conflict, Security Dialogue, and Review of International Studies. Please email roger.macginty@durham.ac.uk. if you would like a pdf copy of any of Mac Ginty's journal articles.

Mac Ginty has conducted extensive fieldwork and his research has been funded by the EU, ESRC and Carnegie Corporation of New York among others. He welcomes enquiries from prospective PhD students with an interest in peacebuilding, international intervention, stabilisation, and the methodologies of capturing peace and conflict.

• International intervention
• Measuring peace and conflict
• Peace processes
• Peacebuilding
• Political violence
• Top-down/bottom-up interactions

Authored book

• Ginty, R. M. (2021). Everyday Peace: How so-called ordinary people can disrupt violent conflict. Oxford University Press
• Mac Ginty, R. (2011). International Peacebuilding and Local Resistance: Hybrid forms of peace. (1). Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230307032
• Mac Ginty, R. (2006). No War, No Peace: The rejuvenation of stalled peace processes and peace accords. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230625686
• Ginty, R. M., & Darby, J. (2002). Guns and government: The management of the Northern Ireland peace process. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230502000

Chapter in book

• Read, R., & Mac Ginty, R. (2019). The temporal dimension in the study of interventions. In N. Lemay-Hebert (Ed.), Handbook on Intervention and Statebuilding (220-230). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788116237
• Mac Ginty, R. (2016). What do we mean when we use the term "local"? Imagining and framing th elocal and the international in relation to peace and order. In T. Debiel, T. Held, & U. Schneckener (Eds.), Peacebuilding in cricis: Rethinking paradigms and practicies of transnational cooperation (193-2109781138858596). Routledge
• Mac Ginty, R. (2015). Transitions and hybrid political orders. In R. johnson, & T. Clack (Eds.), At the End of Military Intervention: Historical, theoretical, and applied approaches to transition, handover and withdrawal (253-270). Oxford University Press

Edited book

• Mac Ginty, R., Brett, R., & Vogel, B. (Eds.). (2020). The Companion to Peace and Conflict Fieldwork. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46433-2
• Richmond, O. P., & Mac Ginty, R. (Eds.). (2020). Local Legitimacy and International Peacebuilding. Edinburgh University Press
• Ozerdem, A., & Mac Ginty, R. (Eds.). (2019). Comparing Peace Processes. Routledge
• Giessmann, H.-J., & Ginty, R. M. (Eds.). (2018). The elgar Companion to Post-Conflict Transition. Edward Elgar Publishing
• Mac Ginty, R., & Williams, A. (Eds.). (2016). Conflict and Development. Routledge
• Mac Ginty, R., & Peterson, J. H. (Eds.). (2015). The Routledge Companion to Humanitarian Action. Routledge
• Ginty, R. M., & Richmond, O. (Eds.). (2009). The Liberal Peace and Post-War Reconstruction. Routledge

Journal Article

• Mac Ginty, R. (online). Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict. Cooperation and Conflict, https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367241293639
• Firchow, P., Funk, J., & Mac Ginty, R. (2025). After war ends: Aid paradigms and post-conflict preferences. World Development, 189, Article 106916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106916
• Brett, R., Ginty, R. M., Sagherian-Dickey, T., & Voyvodic, C. (2024). The micro-dynamics of peace and conflict. Security Dialogue, 55(5), 443-461. https://doi.org/10.1177/09670106241269753
• Mac Ginty, R. (2024). Pluck, luck and peacemaking. Peacebuilding, 12(3), 445-448. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2023.2247721
• Mac Ginty, R., & Firchow, P. (2024). The data myth: interrogating the evidence base for evidence-based peacebuilding. Data & Policy, 6, Article e80. https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2024.80
• Mac Ginty, R. (2022). Temporality and contextualisation in Peace and Conflict Studies: The forgotten value of war memoirs and personal diaries. Cooperation and Conflict, 57(2), 191-209. https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367211027605
• Richmond, O. P., Mac Ginty, R., Pogodda, S., & Visoka, G. (2021). Power or peace? Restoration or emancipation through peace processes. Peacebuilding, 9(3), 243-257. https://doi.org/10.1080/21647259.2021.1911916
• Pogodda, S., Mac Ginty, R., & Richmond, O. (2021). The EU and Critical Crisis Transformation: The Evolution of a Policy Concept. Conflict, Security and Development, 21(1), 85-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2020.1854442
• Firchow, P., & Mac Ginty, R. (2020). Including Hard-to-Access Populations Using Mobile Phone Surveys and Participatory Indicators. Sociological Methods and Research, 49(1), 133-160. https://doi.org/10.1177/0049124117729702
• Mac Ginty, R. (2019). Post-legitimacy and post-legitimisation: a convergence of Western and non-Western intervention. Conflict, Security and Development, 19(3), 251-255. https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2019.1608019
• Mac Ginty, R. (2019). Circuits, the everyday and international relations: Connecting the home to the international and transnational. Cooperation and Conflict, 54(2), 234-253. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836719832343
• Mac Ginty, R. (2019). Complementarity and Interdisciplinarity in Peace and Conflict Studies. Journal of Global Security Studies, 4(2), 267-272. https://doi.org/10.1093/jogss/ogz002
• Mac Ginty, R., Joshi, M., & Lee, S. (2019). Liberal Peace Implementation and the Durability of Post-war Peace. International Peacekeeping, 26(4), 457-486. https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2019.1618189
• Richmond, O. P., & Mac Ginty, R. (2019). Mobilities and peace. Globalizations, 16(5), 606-624. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2018.1557586
• Mac Ginty, R. (2017). A material turn in International Relations: the 4x4, intervention and resistance. Review of International Studies, 43(05), 855-874. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0260210517000146
• Mac Ginty, R. (2017). Peacekeeping and Data. International Peacekeeping, 24(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2017.1383561
• Mac Ginty, R. (2017). Everyday Social Practices and Boundary-Making in Deeply Divided Societies. Civil Wars, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/13698249.2017.1343410
• Read, R., & Mac Ginty, R. (2017). The Temporal Dimension in Accounts of Violent Conflict: A Case Study from Darfur. Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 11(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17502977.2017.1314405
• Mac Ginty, R., & Firchow, P. (2016). Top-down and bottom-up narratives of peace and conflict. Politics, 36(3), 308-323. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395715622967
• Mac Ginty, R. (2015). Where is the local? Critical localism and peacebuilding. Third World Quarterly, 36(5), 840-856. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1045482
• Mac Ginty, R. (2014). Everyday Peace: Bottom-up and local agency in conflict-affected societies. Security Dialogue, 45(6), 548-564. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010614550899
• Mac Ginty, R. (2013). Indicators+: A proposal for everyday peace indicators. Evaluation and Program Planning, 36(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2012.07.001
• Ginty, R. M. (2012). Routine peace: Technocracy and peacebuilding. Cooperation and Conflict, 47(3), 287-308. https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836712444825
• Mac Ginty, R. (2012). Against Stabilization. Stability: International Journal of Security and Development, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.5334/sta.ab
• Mac Ginty, R. (2010). Social network analysis and counterinsurgency: a counterproductive strategy?. Critical Studies on Terrorism, 3(2), https://doi.org/10.1080/17539153.2010.491319
• Mac Ginty, R. (2010). Warlords and the liberal peace: state-building in Afghanistan. Conflict, Security and Development, 10(4), https://doi.org/10.1080/14678802.2010.500548
• Mac Ginty, R. (2009). The Liberal Peace at Home and Abroad: Northern Ireland and Liberal Internationalism. British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 11(4), https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-856x.2009.00385.x
• Hamieh, C. S., & Mac Ginty, R. (2009). A very political reconstruction: governance and reconstruction in Lebanon after the 2006 war. Disasters, 34, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7717.2009.01101.x
• Mac Ginty, R. (2008). Indigenous Peace-Making Versus the Liberal Peace. Cooperation and Conflict, 43(2), https://doi.org/10.1177/0010836708089080