John Darby is professor of comparative ethnic studies at the Kroc Institute. He is currently director of the Peace Accords Matrix, which provides reliable and comparable online data on more than 30 recent comprehensive peace accords. Users can track particular themes in a peace accord, observe how they were approached, and compare them with approaches in other peace processes.
Darby was founding director of INCORE, a joint program of the Tokyo-based United Nations University and the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland. He has held visiting positions in Harvard and Duke Universities, and has been a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation in Bellagio (1990), the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington (1992), the United States Institute of Peace (1998), and the Fulbright New Century Scholars Program (2003). He is honorary President of the Ethnic Studies Network.
Darby has written or edited 15 books and 120 other academic publications, mostly dealing with international conflict resolution and peace processes. Three of the books were listed for international awards, and one was short-listed for the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication award.
Publications include The Management of Peace Processes (Macmillan 2000); Guns and Government (Palgrave/Macmillan 2002) (both with Roger MacGinty); The Effects of Violence on Peace Processes (USIP 2001); and Contemporary Peacemaking, edited with Roger MacGinty (Palgrave/Macmillan Second edition 2008); Violence and Reconstruction, (editor) (Notre Dame Press 2006) and Peacebuilding after Peace Accords, with Tristan Anne Borer and Siobhan McEvoy Levy, (Notre Dame Press 2006).
