Adrian Guelke

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Adrian Guelke is Professor of Comparative Politics in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He was previously Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg from 1993 to 1995. After attending Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape Town, he studied for his BA and MA at the University of Cape Town and his PhD at the London School of Economics. He specialises in the study of ethnic conflict, particularly the cases of Northern Ireland, his native South Africa and Kashmir.

In 1991 he survived an assassination attempt at his Belfast home. Leon Flores, a member of South African Defence Forces' intelligence branch, doctored a police report into an academic at Queen's who was known to be involved in the IRA, substituting Guelke's name into the report. Flores then contacted the Ulster Defence Association, who attempted to shoot Guelke. He was saved because the gun used by the would-be assassin jammed.^[1]

Guelke has written and edited a large number of books on ethnic conflict, including New Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict (Avebury, 1994), The Age of Terrorism and the International Political System (IB Tauris, 1995), South Africa in Transition: The Misunderstood Miracle (IB Tauris, 1999), and A Farewell to Arms? From 'Long War' to Long Peace in Northern Ireland (Manchester University Press, 2000, 2006).