Michael Kerr is Professor of Conflict Studies and Director of the Centre for the Study of Divided Societies at King’s College London. A native of Belfast, he studied politics at Essex University and the London School of Economics where he was Leverhulme Research Fellow in 2007-08. 

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Accord Issue 24: Lebanon

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