Graham Spencer is Emeritus Professor of Social and Political Conflict at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is also Distinguished Senior Research Fellow at the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention, Maynooth University, Ireland and Visiting Fellow at the John McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA. He is author and editor of a number of books, including The SDLP Politics and Peace: The Mark Durkan Interviews (2024), Inside Accounts: The Irish Government and Peace in Northern Ireland, from Sunningdale to the Good Friday Agreement, Vols I and II (2020) and The British and Peace in Northern Ireland (2015).