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Bachelors Sociology University of Essex
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According to Wikipedia, John David Brewer HDSSc, MRIA, FRSE, FAcSS, FRSA is an Irish-British sociologist who was the former President of the British Sociological Association , and was Professor of Post Conflict Studies in the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University Belfast , and is now Emeritus Professor in the Mitchell Institute. He is also Honorary Professor Extraordinary, Stellenbosch University and Honorary Professor of Sociology, Warwick University . He was formerly Sixth-Century Professor of Sociology at the University of Aberdeen . He is a member of the United Nations Roster of Global Experts for his work on peace processes . He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2012 from Brunel University for services to social science.

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The A-Z of Social Research (2003) (375)
The A-Z of social research : a dictionary of key social science research concepts (2003) (194)
Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach (2010) (132)
Black and Blue: Policing in South Africa (1994) (91)
Sensitivity as a Problem in Field Research (1990) (86)
The impact of impact (2011) (70)
Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, 1600–1998: The Mote and the Beam (1998) (66)
Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland (1998) (60)
Sectarianism and racism, and their parallels and differences 1 (1992) (59)
The Ethnographic Critique of Ethnography: Sectarianism in the RUC (1994) (58)
Informal social control and crime management in Belfast (1998) (53)
Adam Ferguson and the Theme of Exploitation (1986) (47)
Religion, Civil Society, and Peace in Northern Ireland (2012) (46)
Victims as moral beacons: victims and perpetrators in Northern Ireland (2011) (44)
The Police, public order, and the state: Policing in Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Irish Republic, the USA, Israel, South Africa, and China (1988) (43)
Grand challenges for the study of cultural evolution (2017) (40)
Religion and Peacemaking: A Conceptualization (2010) (38)
Apartheid's Rebels: Inside South Africa's Hidden War (1988) (36)
The Public Value of the Social Sciences (2013) (35)
Memory, truth and victimhood in post-trauma societies (2006) (34)
Stigma and conversational competence: A conversation analytic study of the mentally handicapped (1989) (33)
Crime in Ireland 1945-95: `Here be Dragons' (1997) (33)
Imagining The Sociological Imagination: the biographical context of a sociological classic. (2004) (32)
Hercules, Hippolyte and the Amazons -- or Policewomen in the RUC (1991) (32)
C. Wright Mills and the Ending of Violence (2003) (31)
Policing in divided societies: Theorising a type of policing∗ (1991) (31)
Foreign Agricultural Service (2020) (30)
Fighting for Ireland? The military strategy of the Irish republican movement (1996) (27)
The Public and Private in C.Wright Mills’s Life and Work (2005) (26)
Can South Africa Survive (1989) (24)
After Soweto: An Unfinished Journey (1986) (24)
The Sociology of Everyday Life Peacebuilding (2018) (23)
The public value of the social sciences : an interpretative essay (2013) (21)
Book Review: Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analysing Talk, Text and Interaction (2002) (21)
Ex-Combatants, Religion, and Peace in Northern Ireland: The Role of Religion in Transitional Justice (2013) (20)
Ethnicity and politics in South Africa (1993) (20)
The ethics of ethical debates in peace and conflict research: Notes towards the development of a research covenant (2016) (19)
Victimhood and Attitudes towards Dealing with the Legacy of a Violent Past: Northern Ireland as a Case Study (2015) (17)
Victimhood Status and Public Attitudes towards Post-conflict Agreements: Northern Ireland as a Case Study (2013) (17)
Talking about Danger: The RUC and the Paramilitary Threat (1990) (16)
Putting Adam Ferguson in his place. (2007) (15)
Northern Ireland: 1921–1998 (1998) (13)
Move Your Shadow: South Africa Black and White (1986) (13)
Public Value (2019) (13)
Victims as moral beacons of humanitarianism in post-conflict societies (2014) (13)
Understanding Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland (1999) (12)
Ethnic minority status and attitudes towards police powers: A comparative study of Great Britain, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (1997) (12)
Crime and Control (1994) (12)
Sociology and theology reconsidered (2007) (11)
Exploitation in the New Marxism of Collective Action (1987) (10)
Victimisation and Attitudes Towards Former Political Prisoners in Northern Ireland (2015) (10)
Northern Ireland: Religion, Religiosity and Politics in a Changing Society (2015) (10)
Crime in Ireland, 1945-95 (1997) (9)
Dealing with emotions in Peacemaking (2011) (9)
Can South Africa survive?: Five minutes to midnight (1989) (9)
Post-conflict societies and the social sciences: a review (2011) (9)
The British Union of Fascists and Anti-Semitism in Birmingham (1984) (8)
Launching democracy in South Africa: the first open election, April 1994 (1996) (8)
Pursuing justice and peace in South Africa (1991) (8)
Restructuring South Africa (1994) (8)
Continuity and Change in Contemporary Ulster Protestantism* (2004) (8)
The Rise of English Nationalism: A Cultural History, 1740-1830.Gerald Newman (1989) (8)
Terrorism's laboratory: the case of Northern Ireland (1996) (7)
Violence, Tolerance and Religious Peace-building in Northern Ireland (2015) (7)
Five Minutes to Midnight (1989) (7)
Looking Back at Fascism: A Phenomenological Analysis of BUF Membership (1984) (7)
Introduction: South Africa in Transition (1994) (7)
The Northern Irish Peace Process (2018) (6)
Internal Black Protest (1989) (6)
The Membership of Inkatha in KwaMashu (1985) (6)
Orchestrating an encounter: a note on the talk of mentally handicapped children (1991) (6)
Mosley's Men: The British Union of Fascists in the West Midlands (1984) (6)
Viewpoint — From Public Impact to Public Value (2011) (6)
Crime in Ireland since the Second World War (1996) (6)
Northern Ireland and the politics of reconciliation (1994) (6)
Competing Understandings of Common Sense Understanding: A Brief Comment on 'Common Sense Racism' (1984) (6)
The Crisis in South Africa: class defense, class revolution by John S. Saul and Stephen Gelb New York and London, Monthly Review Press, 1981. Pp. 156. $12.00. £6.50. (1983) (6)
The Sociology of Compromise after Conflict (2018) (6)
Sociology and its strange `others' (2007) (5)
The Police in South African Politics (1988) (5)
Max Weber and the Royal Irish Constabulary: A Note on Class and Status (1989) (4)
Northern Ireland: Religion and Transitional Justice (2016) (4)
BLACK PROTEST IN SOUTH AFRICA'S CRISIS: A COMMENT ON LEGASSICK (1986) (4)
Some observations on policing and politics ‐ a South African case study (1994) (4)
Researching Sensitive Topics (2012) (4)
The modern janus, Inkatha's role in black liberation (1981) (4)
‘Sexuality in the Church: Toward a sociology of the Bible’ (2003) (3)
Adam Ferguson's Epistolary Self (2008) (3)
Public images of the police in Northern Ireland (1993) (3)
Fascism and crisis (1979) (3)
The New Sociological Imagination (2007) (3)
The Paradox of Northern Ireland (2001) (3)
Managers, Employees, and Organizations: A Study of 27 Organizations.Ralph M. Stogdill , David R. Day , Donald A. Gaal , Norman George , Omar S. Goode (1967) (3)
Conclusion: Afterword on the Sociology of Compromise (2018) (2)
Towards a Sociology of Compromise (2018) (2)
The Road to Compromise in Sri Lanka (2018) (2)
Racial Politics and Nationalism: The Case of South Africa (1982) (2)
Remembering Forwards: Healing the Hauntings of the Past (2020) (2)
Victims as Moral Beacons (2017) (2)
Reaction and Renewal in South Africa (1997) (2)
Society as a Vocation: Renewing Social Science for Social Renewal (2014) (2)
Imagined liberation: xenophobia, citizenship and identity in South Africa, Germany and Canada (2015) (2)
Conclusion: Afterword on the Sociology of Compromise (2018) (2)
Peace Religiosity and Forgiveness Among War Victims in Sri Lanka (2018) (1)
Attitudes to the Army and Pro-Nuclear Activism in Three Student Groups (1986) (1)
The Sociology of the Northern Irish Peace Process (2018) (1)
The Concept of Political Change and the Language of Change in South Africa (1981) (1)
Contentious rituals: parading the nation in Northern Ireland (2019) (1)
“We must protest that our inheritance is within us”: Robert Morrison MacIver as sociologist and Scotsman (2007) (1)
The limits of Politics in Northern Ireland's Peace Process (2015) (1)
Dealing with the past and envisioning the future: problems with Northern Ireland’s peace process (2015) (1)
Queen’s University Belfast in times of violence and peace (2018) (1)
Is a phenomenological sociology possible? Towards a rephrasing of an old question (1979) (1)
Conclusion: Religion and Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland (2013) (1)
Sociology and Peacebuilding (2013) (1)
INKATHA MEMBERSHIP IN KWAMASHU: A REJOINDER TO SOUTHALL (1986) (1)
PUTTING C. WRIGHT MILLS IN HIS PLACE (2004) (1)
Apartheid Exploded: Understanding Contemporary South Africa@@@Apartheid in Transition.@@@After Soweto: An Unfinished Journey. (1988) (1)
History and Biography: John Marsh's History of My Private Life 1752–1828 (1996) (1)
Sites and Sounds: The Cultural Topography of English Music, 1670–1750 (2020) (1)
Culture, class and Protestantism in urban Belfast (2013) (1)
Guilt, Righteous Anger and Forgiveness as Issues in Transitional Justice (2016) (1)
C. Wright Mills and the Sociological Imagination (2003) (1)
Inside BOSS: South Africa's secret police by Gordon Winter Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1981. Pp. 640. £3.95 paperback. (1983) (1)
Post-Conflict Elections in Northern Ireland (2015) (1)
South Africa Without Apartheid: dismantling racial domination by Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley Berkeley, University of California Press, 1986. Pp. xviii+315. £15.25. $18.95. (1987) (1)
Individualism and Big Business.Leonard R. Sayles (1965) (1)
Religion and the Northern Ireland Conflict (2013) (1)
The public value of the social science (2015) (1)
Remembering forwards: or how to live together in the future with divided memories (2016) (1)
The French Revolution is Not Over: An Introduction (2018) (1)
Religion and Prison (2013) (1)
Book Review: Handbook of Ethnography. (2002) (1)
C. Wright Mills on war and peace: Contemporary Perspectives (2013) (1)
From Ecumenism to Community Relations: Inter-Church Relationships in Northern Ireland, 1980-2005 (review) (2008) (1)
An ethnography of crime in Belfast (1996) (1)
Book Review:A Sociology of Organizations. J. E. T. Eldridge, A. D. Crombie (1977) (0)
Compromise after conflict (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
The sociology of the Northern Ireland peace process and its travails (2013) (0)
Literature and liberation in South Africa: a sociological comment on Watts (1986) (0)
Book Review: Belfast. From Loyalty to Rebellion (1992) (0)
Towards a Sociology of Social Compromise: Social Compromise Amongst Victims of Conflict in Northern Ireland, South Africa and Sri Lanka (2020) (0)
Victims and Compromise in Northern Ireland (2018) (0)
Race, Pluralism and Power: The British Parallel With South Africa (1981) (0)
Managerial Behavior.Leonard R. Sayles (1965) (0)
Book Review: Richard Jenkins, Black Magic and Bogeymen: Fear, Rumour and Popular Belief in the North of Ireland 1972–74 (2015) (0)
The Personal Faith of Ex-Combatants (2013) (0)
Religion and Public Attitudes towards Amnesty in Northern Ireland: Is There a God Gap? (2015) (0)
‘Queen Muse of Britain’: Anna Seward of Lichﬁeld and the literary provinces (2013) (0)
Public social science (2013) (0)
Religious Radicalization: Challenging to Peace Building (2018) (0)
Contributions to the Social Peace Process (2011) (0)
‘Sin by Silence’: The Claims to Moral Legitimacy Amongst Northern Irish Paramilitaries (2021) (0)
Organization and Innovation.Chris Argyris (1966) (0)
The role of Christian religion in conflict and peace: the case of Northern Ireland, (2015) (0)
Book reviews (2002) (0)
C. Wright Mills and the Public Sociology of Peace (2021) (0)
Book Review:Formal Organization: A Systems Approach. Rocco Carzo, Jr., John W. Yanouzas (1968) (0)
Editorial Introduction: John d Brewer and Jennifer Platt (2011) (0)
An Appetite for Power: Buthelezi's Inkatha and South Africa by Gerhard Maré and Georgina Hamilton Johannesburg, Ravan Press; Bloomington, Indiana University Press; 1987. Pp. 262. $35.00. £9.95. (1988) (0)
Series Editors’ Preface (2020) (0)
Writing The Public Value of the Social Sciences: The Biography of a Book, (2017) (0)
Series Editors’ Preface (2020) (0)
Series Editors’ Preface (2021) (0)
Religion in Northern Ireland’s conflict and peace.: Overview Report (2018) (0)
How churches are missing their opportunity to help build peace in Northern Ireland (2018) (0)
Growing up as a sociologist in rural Shropshire (2015) (0)
Religion and Motivations for Violence (2013) (0)
The Influence of Religion and Ethnonationalism on Public Attitudes towards Amnesty: Northern Ireland as a Case Study (2016) (0)
South African Voices (2018) (0)
Defending the Realm (1992) (0)
Book Review: Evangelicalism and National Identity in Ulster 1921-1998 (2005) (0)
Transport reform, technological change and equity - allies or enemies? (1993) (0)
Benjamin Franklin in London [Book Review] (2016) (0)
Opportunities and Constraints in Religious Peace Work (2011) (0)
Reflections and encounters with C. Wright Mills:: the sociological imagination and public sociology (2013) (0)
Individual Biographical Experiences and Peace (2003) (0)
Official ideology and lay members' beliefs in Inkatha (1985) (0)
Joseph A Scimecca, Christianity and Sociological Theory: Reclaiming the Promise (2019) (0)
Everyday Life Peacebuilding (2018) (0)
Book Review Symposium: Stefan Collini, What are Universities For? (2013) (0)
British Counter-Insurgency Veterans in Afghanistan (2021) (0)
‘Is a phenomenological sociology possible? The ethnomethodological solution’ (1979) (0)
The Modes of Contemporary Anti-Catholicism (1998) (0)
Series Editors’ Preface (2021) (0)
The quality of mercy: how religion and ethno-nationalism influence attitudes towards amnesty in Northern Ireland (2016) (0)
Weaknesses in the Churches’ Peacemaking (2011) (0)
Thinking about South Africa: reason, morality and politics (1990) (0)
Scotland’s sociological legacy to Edinburgh: 300 years of Scottish social thought, (2014) (0)
Series Editors’ Preface (2021) (0)
On the Mersey Beat: Policing Liverpool Between the Wars.Mike Brogden (1992) (0)
Plantation to the United Irishmen: 1600–1799 (1998) (0)
Before the Night Ended by Rita A. Savage. Edinburgh, Cambridge and Durham, Pentland Press, 1997. Pp. 166, Hb. £15.00. (1998) (0)
The sociological imagination and public sociology (2013) (0)
Religion and Peacebuilding (2021) (0)
Common-sense Reasoning and Theological Misunderstandings (1998) (0)
Dual Book Review Symposium: Simon Bastow, Patrick Dunleavy and Jane Tinkler, The Impact of the Social Sciences: How Academics and their Research Make a Difference (2014) (0)
Sri Lankan Voices (2018) (0)
Perspectives on the Past: Religion in the Personal and the Political (2013) (0)
Introduction (2021) (0)
Political efficacy and Inkatha membership in Kwa‐Mashu: A research note* (1987) (0)
Book Reviews (1997) (0)
Compromise after conflict: A case study in public value social science (2019) (0)
Economic Power in Anglo-South African Diplomacy: Simonstown, Sharpeville and After by Geoff Berridge London and Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1981. Pp. xv + 225. £20.00. (1983) (0)
Book Review: Astrobiology by Monica Grady (2002) (0)
Union to Partition: 1800–1920 (1998) (0)
Doctoral Dissertations Newly Started in 1964 (1965) (0)
Postscript: A Better Way (1998) (0)
Book Reviews (1984) (0)
Contributions to the Political Peace Process (2011) (0)
The Historical Specificity of the Peace Process (2003) (0)
Book Review: Catholic Identity: Balancing Reason, Faith and Power (1999) (0)
Book reviews (2010) (0)
The Scottish Enlightenment and Scottish Social Thought c.1725–1915 (2014) (0)
The public value of the sociology of religion 1 (2019) (0)
There is a need to develop both a victim-led and victim-centred approach to dealing with the legacy of Northern Ireland’s violent past (2015) (0)
Conclusion: The Sociological Imagination and the Peace Process (2003) (0)
Letters (2004) (0)
Northern Ireland Voices (2018) (0)
1998 As A Cultural Moment in Northern Ireland (2018) (0)
Introduction: Conflict, Violence and Peace (2003) (0)
Book Reviews (1993) (0)
Centring Victims in Peacebuilding (2018) (0)
International Pressures and Political Change in South Africa edited by F. McA. Clifford-Vaughan Cape Town and London, Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. 109. £5.95. (1980) (0)
Centring Victims in Peacebuilding (2018) (0)
The Republic of Ireland (1996) (0)
Benjamin Franklin and the Ends of Empire [Book Review] (2016) (0)
Listening to Ex-combatants’ Voices (2021) (0)
The Intersection of Politics and the Social Structure (2003) (0)
Remembering Forwards: Managing the Burden of the Future after Conflict (2018) (0)
Taking the Leap: Building Social Trust (2018) (0)
Ex-Combatants and the Churches (2013) (0)
The Social Science of Organizations: Four Perspectives.Henry A. Latané , David Mechanic , George Strauss , George B. Strother , Harold J. Leavitt (1965) (0)
Book reviews (2010) (0)
The Quantitative Study of Crime in Ireland (1997) (0)
Capitalism and Apartheid: South Africa, 1910–84 by Merle Lipton Aldershot, Gower, and Temple, Smith, 1985. Pp. xi+449. £18.50. $33.00. £8.95 paperback. (1986) (0)
Southern Africa at the crossroads? Prospects for stability and development in the 1990s (1993) (0)

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