Name:
Ryan Gawn

Title:
International External Relations Coordinator

Organisation:
Save the Children UK

Email:
ryangawnyahoo.co.uk

Phone:
447909881031

Areas of Professional Interest:

Ryan Gawn is a public affairs and conflict resolution consultant. As a Rotary World Peace Fellow, he researched truth-recovery and transitional justice in his native Northern Ireland. Ryan has worked in Northern Irish public affairs since 1999, and has published a variety of media on international affairs and peacebuilding, most recently “Truth Cohabitation: A Truth Commission for Northern Ireland?” in Irish Political Studies (September 2007). Having studied conflict resolution in Sweden and the USA, he has worked on various projects with Track Two organisations, INGOs, the United Nations, Scottish & European Parliaments and the UK's Foreign & Commonwealth Office concerning devolution, peacebuilding, international development and peace & conflict. Ryan has also spoken in various academic conferences throughout Asia, the Americas and Europe on the Northern Irish conflict and reconciliation. Formerly, he edited Chile's main English language newspaper, and currently works with Save the Children UK as International External Relations Coordinator.

Publications:

• “Truth Cohabitation - A Truth Commission for Northern Ireland?” - Irish Political Studies, Routledge - Taylor & Francis, Vol 22, No. 3, 339-361, September 2007
• Economics in Peacemaking: Lessons from Northern Ireland, The Portland Trust, London, UK, May 2007
  http://www.portlandtrust.org/Economics%20in%20Peacemaking%20-%20Lessons%20from%20Northern%20Ireland.pdf
• “Domino Devolution” - Public Affairs News, Dod's Parliamentary Communications, London, UK, November 2006
  http://www.publicaffairsnews.com/issues/articleview.asp?article_id=292
• “Costosa Diplomacia” - Foreign Policy (Edición Española), Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior, Madrid, Spain (October / November 2006, No. 17)
  http://www.fp-es.org/oct_nov_2006/story_17_7.asp
• “Still shackled by the past: Truth and Recovery in Northern Ireland?” Peace & Conflict Review, UN University for Peace, San José, Costa Rica (September 2006, No.2)
  http://www.review.upeace.org/pdf.cfm
• “Costly Diplomacy” - Foreign Policy Magazine, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC, USA (September / October 2006)
  http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3544
• “Past Imperfect” - Magill, Dublin, Ireland (July / August 2006)
• “Out with the Old, in with the New: Human Rights reform at the United Nations” - Fortnight, Belfast, Northern Ireland (No. 443, April 2006)
• “Victim/Combatant Dialogue?” - Fortnight, Belfast, Northern Ireland (No. 442, March 2006)
• “The Summit of the Americas: Past and Present” - Bloomberg, New York, USA, (December 2005)
  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/regions/latinamerica.html
• “A Year of Bold Decision?” - Peace Magazine, Toronto, Canada, (Vol21.No.4: Oct - Dec 2005)
  http://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v21n4p16.htm
• “Reform within reach?” - Op-ed, Iran Daily, Iran Cultural & Press Institute, Tehran, Iran (September 15, 2005)
  http://iran-daily.com/1384/2377/pdf/i2.pdf
• “Le courage de nos différences: summoning the courage to reform the UN” - Editorial, International Affairs Forum, Washington DC, USA (September 2005)
  http://www.ia-forum.org/Files/OQTJFI.doc
• “Death by Consensus” - Comment, Foreign Policy Magazine, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC, USA (September 2005)
  http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3234
• “Bold and achievable?: the challenge of UN Reform” - Article, International Affairs Forum, Washington DC, USA (September 2005)
  http://www.ia-forum.org/Files/GPZZMW.doc
• “Reform within reach?” - Op-ed, Viewpoints, Foreign Policy Association, New York, USA (September 2005)
  http://www.fpa.org/newsletter_info2489/newsletter_info_sub_list.htm?sectionReform%20within%20reach%3F
• Contributor - Time Out Best of Buenos Aires 2005 / 2006, Buenos Aires, Argentina (August 2005)
• “In Larger Freedom: an analysis of UN reform”, Foreign Policy Association, New York, USA (August 2005)
  http://www.fpa.org/topics_info2414/topics_info_show.htm?doc_id=292333
• Contributor - “Lonely Planet Chile & Easter Island”, Lonely Planet Publications; 6th edition, China (May 2003)
• Various Editorials, Santiago News Review, Santiago, Chile (February - July 2003)

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