Northern Ireland Research Initiative

The Northern Ireland Research Initiative (hereafter NIRI) was created in 2008 to address the current lack of: 1) disaggregated, 2) systematically collected, 3) publicly available data on the Northern Ireland conflict, 4) across source and type of violation. The goal of this effort is to advance our ability to assess important theoretical explanations for what took place, such as explorations of the importance of political, economic, cultural, and social factors commonly believed to influence conflict activity. NIRI has engaged in an ambitious research effort composed of numerous elements including a unique, systematic, and comprehensive data collection of events with information about perpetrators and victims at different levels of analysis (i.e., street, neighborhood, city, region and country) as well as multi-level theorization and examination about the determinants and processes of political conflict/violence. Additional information on the project can be found at niresearch.org.