Padraig O'Malley

Padraig O’Malley is the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation at UMass Boston’s the John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies (full bio https://www.umb.edu/moakley/about/padraig_omalley) and author on topics related to divided societies. Born in Dublin, Ireland, O’Malley is an award-winning author and expert on democratic transitions and divided societies, with special expertise on Northern Ireland, South Africa, Iraq and Israel~Palestine.

His fifteen year documentation of the transition from Apartheid to democracy in South Africa, The Heart of Hope is available at the Nelson Mandela Foundation website: www.nelsonmandela.org/omalley

O'Malley is the founding director of The Forum for Cities in Transition (FCT) http://citiesintransition.net/