Guide to Specialists

Stephen Farry
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
October 2005 – July 2006

ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE

Project Focus
Inside Out: An Integrative Critique of the Northern Ireland Peace Process

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Stephen Farry is the general secretary for the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. He was involved in the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement, and worked with the British, Irish, and American governments in subsequent talks to realize the implementation of those accords. He served as a member of North Down Borough Council (in suburban Belfast) since 1993, including a term as deputy mayor.

Currently, he chairs the finance and urban regeneration committees. He has also worked with the National Democratic Institute in Washington, D.C., assisting as a pro bono trainer and consultant on four projects on Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Farry received his B.S.Sc. in politics from the Queen’s University of Belfast and attended an executive program, “Managing Change in a Diverse Society,” at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

He received his Ph.D. on the United Nations, collective security and the national interest, from Queen’s University of Belfast.

Available on usip.org:

• Northern Ireland: Prospects for Progress in 2006?
  Special Report, September 2006
• Inside Out: An Integrative Critique of the Northern Ireland Peace Process
  Senior Fellow Project Report Summary, June 15, 2006

Other Publications:

• "The Morning After: An Alliance Perspective on the Agreement," Peace at Last? The Impact of the Good Friday Agreement on Northern Ireland, Jorg Neuheiser and Stefan Wolff, eds. (2002).
• "Beyond the Band-Aid Approach: an Alliance Party Perspective on the Belfast Agreement," Fordham International Law Journal, co-authored with Sean Neeson (April 1999).