Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications

Marcello MOLLICA
E-Mail: [email protected]
Education
12/07/2007: European Doctorate Enhancement in Peace and Conflict Studies, HumanitarianNet,
University of Deusto, Bilbao (S)
10/2001-10/2005: Doctorate in Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Centre for Strategic Studies §
Peace Research, Catholic University of Leuven (B). Title of thesis: ‘Death Managment and Conflict
Dynamics: A Study of the 1980-81 Irish National Liberation Army Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland’
09/1995-11/1997: Postgraduate Diploma and Master in Peace Studies, University of Ulster (NI). Title of
thesis: ‘Power, Space, Identity: A Contribution to Understanding Conflict (case study: Derry City)’
09/1988-07/1992: Degree in Political Sciences, University of Messina (I). Title of Thesis: ‘The Development
of the Regionalistic Idea from the Unity of Italy to the Second World War’
Recent Seminars and Conference Contributions
(Expected) 15-23/07/2008, International Union of Anthropological & Ethnological Sciences, Humanity,
Development and Ethnological Sciences, Kunming (China), Paper to be presented: Urban Reality vs. National
Visions: The Case of Lebanon and Northern Ireland (awarded British Academy Overseas Conference Grant).
16-17/11/2007: Organizer of an international workshop and conference on Suicide Bombers in the Middle
East, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK (see http://www.kent.ac.uk/anthropology/files/press_mm_conf.pdf).
Paper presented: Eastern Christian perspectives of Suicide Bombers
28/10/2007 Conference Paper, Corridor I: Misconstrued political conflict running roughshod over local issues
in Sicily, Commission on Urban Anthropology, European Identity, Power and Space, Tirana, Albania
21/09/2007: Conference Paper, Un Polo per la Pace nel Meridione, Conference title ‘Da Pizzo Monaco un
Messaggio di Pace’, Assemblea Regionale Siciliana, Antillo (I)
22/01/2007: Seminar Paper, Data collection in a Violently Divided Society, University of Kent, Canterbury
(UK)
14/12/2006 Conference Paper, Lebanon: Field-Work under Fire, Department of History, University of Burgos,
Spain
13/12/2006 Conference Paper, Victims/Martyrs/Criminals: the Case of Northern Ireland, University of
Burgos, Spain
6/12/2006 Conference Paper, The War in Lebanon: Research Under Fire, University of Derby, UK
2/11/2006, Conference Paper, Socio-political construction of martyrdom: perception of martyrdom and
different cultures and its political implication, Faculty of Sociology, Adnan Menderes Universitesi, Aydin,
Turkey
10/10/2006, Conference Paper, In the thick of it: an anthropologist experience of war on the Israeli-Lebanese
border, Faculty of Anthropology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
16-27 September 2006, Intensive Programme in Peace Studies, Diaspora, Trauma and Conflict Resolution in
Europe and Beyond, Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Lido, Venice, Italy –
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18/09/2006 Conference Paper, In the Thick of It. Diary of the experience as a researcher being trapped in a
war
10/08/2005, Conference Paper, 'I problemi della ricerca nelle società divise', Conference title: 'Pace: da utopia
a opportunità', Assessorato Beni Culturali ed Ambientali e Pubblica Istruzione, Sicilian Parliament, Antillo (I)
30/06/2005-09/07/2005, Intensive Programme in Peace Studies, ‘Peace and Conflict. Case Studies: Europe and
Beyond’, Sabanci University, Istanbul (Turkey)
10/05/2005, Conference Paper, ‘Death-Related Political Behaviour and Remembrance: the Legacy for Young
People’, Peace Research Group, University of Konstanz (Germany)
13/12/2004, Seminar, ‘The Making of a Martyr out of a Hunger Striker’, PhD Programme, KULeuven (B)
3-10/09/2004, Intensive Programme in Peace Studies, ‘Conflict Resolution and European legacies of War’,
Centre for European Studies, University of Limerick (EIRE)
1/09/2004, Conference Paper, ‘Death-Related Political Behaviour and Remembrance: the Legacy for Young
People’, Conflict Research Society Annual Conference, Londonderry (UK)
24/07/2004, Conference Paper, ‘Innovazioni nell’insegnamento di temi ad alta sensibilità politica: Nassiriya e
l’Irlanda del Nord’, La Campana per la Pace, UNESCO, Italian Minister of Defence, Sicilian Parliament and
University of Messina, Antillo (I)
26/04/2004: Seminar, ‘The Political Use, Transmission and Receptivity of Death: A Case of a Catholic College
and a Protestant Youth Club in Northern Ireland’, University of Pisa (I)
23/04/2004: Seminar, ‘Politiche di Propaganda: Martiri e Criminali’, Rotary Club Patti-Terra del Tindari,
Rotary District 2110 Sicily-Malta, Patti (I)
Professional Experience and Courses
03/2008 – present: Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Fribourg, Fribourg (CH)
12/2007 – present: Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Kent, Canterbury
(UK)
11/2005-11/2007: Post-doctoral fellow, Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, Department of Anthropology,
University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)
16-27 September 2006, War game facilitator for Peace Studies PhD students at the Intensive Programme in
Peace Studies, Diaspora, Trauma and Conflict Resolution in Europe and Beyond, Institute for International
Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Lido, Venice, Italy
05/2005–10/2005, Research contractor, Istituto di Studi Politici “San Pio V”, Rome, Research title:
‘Martyrdom as a political strategy in Lebanon: Dbayyé refugee camp’
12/2003 - present: Advisor Conflict Resolution Centre, Comitato pro Erigenda Campana di Antillo (I)
09/2003–01/2004: Seminar Tutor for ‘Research Methods’ and ‘History and Historians’, Faculty of Arts,
University of Ulster, Magee Campus (NI)
03/2003-03/2004: Marie Curie Fellow/EU, University of Ulster, Magee Campus, Londonderry (NI)
10/2001–03/2003: Italian Language Courses Teacher at 3L, catholic University of Leuven (B)
07/2000–06/2002: Research on the behalf of the City Council of Gioiosa Marea (I), on the history of the same
village
09/1999–07/2000: Lessons and stages given to High School students as part of ‘Messaggi di Pace’ (Peace
Messages) programme, on the behalf of the Distretto Scolastico n. 35 – Taormina (I)
01/1999–04/2000: Research on the behalf of Armando Siciliano Editore, on the Greek/Roman history of the
city of Tindari (I)
09/1997–12/1998: Research on the behalf of the “ARCI 13 ottobre 1957” of Raccuja (I), on the Agrarian
Rising of the fifties’ in the same village
09/1996–08/1997: Research on the behalf of the City Council of San Piero Patti (I), on the old Universitas of
the same village in the second half of 1300
03/1993-03/1994: Civil Service, Caritas Diocesana of Patti (I)
Publications
(book in preparation) co-edited with James Dingley result of the Workshop and International Conference
organized at the University of Kent on 16/17 November 2007 on Suicide Bombers in the Middle East
(article in preparation) Christian Responses to Suicide Bombing in the Middle East
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(book chapter accepted) incoming HumanitariaNet volume (eds. HJ Heintze and R Hudson) Ethnography
under Fire: Alma el-Shaab Summer 2006
(chapter in publication) Erosion of Legitimacy: A Lebanese Case of Collapsed Governance in I Pardo and GB
Prato (eds.) Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers
2007: M Mollica and JC Dingley, Sectarian Dynamics of Multi-cultural norms and the Law in Lebanon: A
Warning for the Future of Northern Ireland (accepted, National Identities)
2007: JC Dingley and M Mollica, The Human Body as a Terrorist Weapon: Hunger Strikes and Suicide
Bombers, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 30, Issue 6, 459-492
2006: Marcello Mollica, Diario dal Libano, Armando Siciliano Editore, Messina ISBN: 88-7442-423-X
2006: Marcello Mollica, Piraino: piccolo mondo di cultura, in Giovanni Bonanno (ed), 'La donna e il mare',
Esposizione nazionale d'arte contemporanea, pp. 19-22, Priulla, Palermo
2006: Book Chapter, Challenges in Data Collection in a Violently Divided Society, in Peace and Conflict:
Europe and Beyond (eds. AI Gray and I Al-Marashi), Humanitarian Net, University of Deusto, Bilbao, pp. 2131
2005: (ed.) Percorrendo i luoghi della memoria, Atti del Convegno, Gioiosa Marea (I), 4 aprile 2004,
Armando Siciciano Editore, Messina. ISBN: 88-7442-207-5
2004: A Barrinha, F de Mata, M Mollica, M Schneider, From Guernica with Love in ‘Conflict Resolution and
European Legacies of War’, (eds) AI Gray, D Kelleher, E Moxon-Browne, Humanitarian Net, Centre for
European Studies at University of Limerick, Limerick, 29-40
2004: Le due Gioiose e San Giorgio. Storie di Vita Religiosa, Armando Siciliano Editore, Messina (v. II),
ISBN: 88-7442-309-8
2004: T Duffy and M Mollica, Educational Innovation in Politically Sensitive Fields: a case study of interview
material involving the bereaved families of the Iraq Nasirya killings of 12 November 2003, in Journal of
Education for Teaching, Vol. 30, No. 2, 179-181
2003: (film script) Piccole Memorie Dimenticate, historical documentary, director Italo Zeus,
Comune di Piraino (http://video.google.it/videoplay?docid=3597360990752180623&hl=it)
2003: Gioiosa Marea. Dal Monte di Guardia a Ciappe di Tono e San Giorgio, Armando Siciliano Editore,
Messina (v. I), ISBN: 88-7442-160-5
2003: In Odium Fidei. Giovanni Scolarici da Piraino, Armando Siciliano Editore, Messina. Theater play
2002: (AA. VV.) La Campana per la Pace, Atti del Convegno 25/08/2001, Università di Messina, Armando
Siciliano Editore, 53-56
2000: Tindari. Dalla città greca al culto della Madonna Nera, Armando Siciliano Editore, Messina, ISBN: 887442-208-3
1998: (AA.VV.) Raccuja nel dopoguerra. Notizie, scritte murali e immagini, La Tipografica, Palermo
1997: (AA. VV.) La comunità dei Pescatori di San Giorgio nel distretto di Santa Maria de Monte Carmelo
and Tonnare, Minajte and Sciabbiche nelle Giuliane delle chiese Parrocchiali di Gioiosa Marea, in
Archeologia delle Tonnare Messinesi, published by the Regional Province of Messina
1997: Petra supra Petra, Armando Siciliano Editore, Messina. Musical in Sicilian dialect. Ordinary
enrollement to the SIAE (Italian Society for Authors & Publishers), position number 115909. Title section
DOR: Author of Litterary Part. Opera number: 838323, ISBN: 88–7442–124-9
1995: N Mancuso, M Mollica, M Saporito, Storie di Fede e di Morte da un Archivio Parrocchiale, in Atti del
Terzo Convegno di Storia dei Nebrodi, Armenio Editore, Brolo
1995: Il Pianto delle Ciaule. Storia di Sicilia ed Andrea, Armando Siciliano Editore, Messina. Historical
novel, ISBN: 88-7442-189-3
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