The Understanding Conflict Trust Team
Derick Wilson (1947–2024)
Derick Wilson was a youth tutor with the Community Relations Commission, NI, (70-73); Principal Lecturer in Youth Work (Ulster Poly (73-78); Corrymeela Director (78-85) and Research Fellow, Centre for the Study of Conflict, Ulster, funded by JRCT (85-89).Co-director with Duncan Morrow of the Future Ways Project’ (Ulster), a reconciliation practice and research programme, he was Assistant Director, UNESCO Centre; Reader in Education with Restorative Practices (89-2013); Reader Emeritus in Education. Visiting Research Fellow: Uppsala (87); the Maori Institute, Auckland (98). and US-UK Fulbright Scholar- in-Residence.
Although Derick passed away in 2024, he is always with us in the work of UCT.
Duncan Morrow
Duncan Morrow is a Politics Professor at Ulster and has published in conflict resolution, Northern Ireland politics and the relationship between religion and politics. Research interests include Conflict and Religion, Ethnic Conflict, Northern Ireland Politics and the work of Rene Girard. Currently Director of Community Engagement (Ulster). For ten years, as Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council he championed the concept of a shared future and peace-building by developing the Council’s role in policy, research, active learning in organisations, working on interfaces, parading and regeneration, and in work with victims and survivors of conflict. dj.morrow@ulster.ac.uk
Dong Jin Kim
Dong Jin Kim is Kim Dae Jung Chair Professor of Peace Studies at Hanshin University, and ISE Adjunct Professor in Peace and Reconciliation at the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin. He conducts engaged research, collaborating with various humanitarian, development, and peace organisations, including Okedongmu Children in Korea, Korean Sharing Movement, and Corrymeela. He was a Goodwill Ambassador for Peace on the Korean Peninsula at the South Korean Ministry of Unification (2020-22). He is the author of The Korean Peace Process and Civil Society (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), co-author of Peace and Conflict in a Changing World: Key Issues in Peace Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), Nurturing Hope (Corrymeela Press, 2022), and co-editor of Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea (Routledge, 2022). He has published in Peacekeeping, Globalizations, Peacebuilding, Alternatives, the Pacific Review, Asia Europe Journal, Asian Perspective, as well as several Korean journals. kimdj@tcd.ie
Jean Horstman
Juana ‘Jean’ Horstman is a US network entrepreneur, with a background in systems thinking, facilitating bridging social capital, and organisational development. The Founding CEO of Interise, she developed a program licensing model for its signature small business development program, the StreetWise ‘MBA’ resulting in a national network of partners in 46 US states. In 2018, Interise was selected as a finalist for the Drucker Prize in recognition for its innovative approach to generating wealth and creating jobs in low-income communities by scaling established small employer firms. In the 15 years Jean lived in Europe, she held leadership positions in cultural policy and management, working in the UK, Germany, and, after 1989, the new democracies of Eastern and Central Europe. jjeanhorstman@gmail.com
UCT Trustees
Linda Johnston LLB
Hilary Morrow FCA
Francis Brady MBE
Dong Jin Kim
Jim McMillan
Dot Wilson