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Joseph Morrison Skelly is an American scholar, Professor of History at the University of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York, and a retired United States Army officer.
Dr. Skelly's education includes a BA from the University of Notre Dame and an MA and PhD from University College Dublin. He was a Rotary Foundation International Graduate Scholar at Queen’s University in Belfast. He has published numerous books, including Political Islam from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad: Defenders, Detractors, and Definitions; the volume Ideas Matter: Essays in Honor of Conor Cruise O'Brien;Irish Foreign Policy, 1919-66: From Independence to Internationalism; and Irish Diplomacy at the United Nations, 1945-65: National Interests and the International Order. He has written articles for scholarly journals in North America, Europe, and Israel on a wide range of topics, including international terrorism, radical Islam, military affairs, and diplomatic history. He has published essays on similar themes in The Washington Times, National Review Online, United Press International, Irish Independent , and The Belfast Telegraph. He is treasurer of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa and a writing fellow with the Middle East Forum. He was an academic fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies from 2003-07. He served as an editorial advisor to Robert McCartney, Member of the British Parliament and leader of the UK/Unionist Party, from 2000-02.
Joseph Skelly is a retired U.S. Army officer. He served in the United States Army Reserve from 2001-21 and in the United States Army National Guard from 1996-2000. He held a range of command, staff, and operational positions. He completed a tour of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was stationed in the city of Baquba in Diyala Province, northeast of Bagdad on the edge of the Sunni Triangle. His major military awards include the Bronze Star, the Combat Action Badge, the Iraq Campaign Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Army Achievement Medal, and the Army Service Medal for being deployed during the COVID pandemic in 2020. He was the recipient of the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award in 2016; he was the honor graduate of Army training and development courses at Fort Benning, GA, Fort Leonard Wood, MO, and Fort Sam Houston, TX; and he received the Commanding General’s award for the highest score on the record Army Physical Fitness Test at the latter two locations.
Tommy Ray Franks is a retired United States Army general. His last army post was as the Commander of the United States Central Command, overseeing United States military operations in a 25-country region, including the Middle East. Franks succeeded General Anthony Zinni to this position on 6 July 2000 and served until his retirement on 7 July 2003. Franks was the United States general leading the attack on the Taliban in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and The Pentagon in 2001. He also oversaw the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Robert William Fisk was an English writer and journalist. He was critical of United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and the Israeli government's treatment of Palestinians.
Mairead Maguire, also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Maguire and Williams were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.
Patrick Oliver Cockburn is a journalist who has been a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times since 1979 and, from 1990, The Independent. He has also worked as a correspondent in Moscow and Washington and is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books.
William Eldridge Odom was a United States Army lieutenant general who served as Director of the National Security Agency under President Ronald Reagan, which culminated a 31-year career in military intelligence, mainly specializing in matters relating to the Soviet Union. After his retirement from the military, he became a think tank policy expert and a university professor and became known for his outspoken criticism of the Iraq War and warrantless wiretapping of American citizens. He died of an apparent heart attack at his vacation home in Lincoln, Vermont.
John Thomas Alderdice, Baron Alderdice is a Northern Ireland politician. He was the Speaker and a Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly (MLA) for East Belfast from 1998 to 2004 and 1998 to 2003, respectively. Alderdice was the leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland from 1987 to 1998, and since 1996 has sat in the House of Lords as a Liberal Democrat.
Abdul Aziz Said was Professor Emeritus of International Relations in the School of International Service at American University, Washington, D.C., and founding Director of the university's International Peace and Conflict Resolution Division. Said was well known for helping shift the focus of International Relations theory from real politic-based on the concept that the law of power governs states, to new world order-based on cooperation and common security. Starting in the 1990s Said focused his work on peace and conflict resolution and later explored the relationship between spirituality and religion in international politics.
People's Democracy was a political organisation that arose from the Northern Ireland civil rights movement. It held that civil rights could be achieved only by the establishment of a socialist republic for all of Ireland. It demanded more radical reforms of the government of Northern Ireland than the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association.
The Royal Belfast Academical Institution is an independent grammar school in Belfast, Northern Ireland. With the support of Belfast's leading reformers and democrats, it opened its doors in 1814. Until 1849, when it was superseded by what today is Queen's University, the institution pioneered Belfast's first programme of collegiate education. Locally referred to as Inst, the modern school educates boys from ages 11 to 18. It is one of the eight Northern Irish schools represented on the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The school occupies an 18-acre site in the centre of the city on which its first buildings were erected.
Simon Frederick Peter Halliday was an Irish writer and academic specialising in international relations and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Cold War, Iran, and the Arabian peninsula.
The University of Mount Saint Vincent (UMSV) is a private Catholic university in Riverdale, New York. It was founded in 1847 by the Sisters of Charity of New York.
Gerald Dawe was an Irish poet, academic and literary critic.
Pan Guang is the Director of and Professor at the Shanghai Center for International Studies and Institute of European & Asian Studies at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Director of SCO Studies Center in Shanghai, Dean of Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS), and Vice Chairman of the Chinese Society of Middle East Studies.
Dr. Kalev I. Sepp is senior lecturer in defense analyst at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
Padraig O'Malley is an Irish international peacemaker, author, and professor. O'Malley specializes in the problems of divided societies, such as South Africa and Northern Ireland. He has written extensively on these subjects and has been actively involved in promoting dialogue among representatives of differing factions. He's currently the John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
Edward Wadie Said was a Palestinian-American philosopher, academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies. As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient. His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.
Denis Liddell Ireland was an Irish essayist and political activist. A northern Protestant, after service in World War I he embraced the cause of Irish independence. He also advanced the social credit ideas of C. H. Douglas. In Belfast, his efforts to encourage Protestants in the exploration of Irish identity and interest were set back when in 1942 his Ulster Union Club was found to have been infiltrated by a successful recruiter for the Irish Republican Army. In Dublin, where he argued economic policy had failed to "see independence through," he entered Seanad Éireann, the Irish Senate, in 1948 for the republican and social-democratic Clann na Poblachta. He was the first member of the Oireachtas, the Irish Parliament, to be resident in Northern Ireland.
Thomas J. Moran was an American businessman, philanthropist, academic administrator, and humanitarian. At the time of his death, he was chairman emeritus of Mutual of America and the chancellor of Queen's University Belfast.
John T. “Jack” Skelly was a journalist who wrote for a number of news organizations focusing primarily on Latin America and served for a brief period in 1959 as Fidel Castro’s international press coordinator.
Walter Luke Willigan was an American historian, sociologist, and educator who taught at St. John's University for forty years.
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