Associate Professor in the Conflict Studies Programme at St. Paul University, Ottawa (Canada)
Kenneth Bush received his PhD in International Relations and Comparative Politics from Cornell University. He has worked with such organizations as VNG International, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, SIDA, DFID, DFAIT, CIDA, UNICEF, OECD DAC, the World Bank, IDRC and a host of NGOs on the challenges of peace-building from local to global levels. He has published widely on issues related to peace-building, identity-based conflict and bad governance. In 2004, his study Building Capacity for Peace and Unity: The Role of Local Government in Peace building was published by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Kenneth’s book Reading Between the Lines: the intra-group dimensions of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka was published in December 2003. Current research includes: Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA); the peace-building roles of diaspora; the politics of art; and the commodification of peace-building or the peace-destroying impacts of ‘peace-building’ initiatives.