John Darby is Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies at the Kroc Institute.
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 fourteen books and more than 100 other academic publications, mostly dealing with ethnic conflict internationally. Three of the books were listed for international awards, one short-listed for the American Sociological Association Distinguished Scholarly Publication award.
His recent 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 2003); 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).
