Dong Jin Kim
Research Director
Dong Jin Kim is Director of the Peace Culture Research Institute. He is Kim Dae Jung Chair Professor of Peace Studies at Hanshin University, and Adjunct Professor at School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies, Trinity College Dublin. Dong Jin was Irish School of Ecumenics Senior Research Fellow in Peace and Reconciliation Studies, and Irish Research Council and Marie Curie Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, and Lecturer of Peace Studies and International Development at the University of Bradford. His research interests are in the areas of peace processes, peacebuilding, humanitarian, and development cooperation. He conducts engaged research, collaborating with various humanitarian, development, and peace organisations, including Okedongmu Children in Korea, Korean Sharing Movement, Understanding Conflict Trust, and Corrymeela. He was a Goodwill Ambassador for Peace on the Korean Peninsula at the South Korean Ministry of Unification (2020-22). He is the author of The Korean Peace Process and Civil Society: Towards Strategic Peacebuilding (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019), co-author of Peace and Conflict in a Changing World: Key Issues in Peace Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024, with David Mitchell and Gillian Wylie), and co-editor of Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea (Routledge, 2022, with David Mitchell). He has published numerous research articles in international journals including International Affairs, International Peacekeeping, Globalizations, Peacebuilding, Alternatives, Asia Europe Journal, and the Pacific Review, as well as several Korean peer-reviewed journals.
PUBLICATIONS (Selected)
Books
– Dong Jin Kim, David Mitchell, and Gillian Wylie (2024), Peace and Conflict in a Changing World – Key Issues in Peace Studies, Palgrave Macmillan
– Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell eds. (2022), Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea, Routledge
– Derick Wilson, Duncan Morrow, Jean Hortsman, and Dong Jin Kim (2022), Nurturing Hope, Corrymeela Press
– Dong Jin Kim (2019), The Korean Peace Process and Civil Society: Towards Strategic Peacebuilding, Palgrave Macmillan
– Dong Jin Kim (2011), Peacebuilding and the Ecumenical Movement on the Korean Peninsula, Hankuk Sinhak Yonguso
Journal articles
– Dan Gudgeon and Dong Jin Kim (2025), “Old Wine in New Bottles or A New Strategy of Peace? A Triple Nexus Approach to Aid Cooperation in North Korea”, International Peacekeeping, 32: 1
– Dong Jin Kim and Duncan Morrow (2024), “Ontological Security and Protracted Conflict in Frontier Societies: Towards a Trans-Local Turn in Peacebuilding”, Peacebuilding, DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2024.2370687
– Dong Jin Kim and Youngchul Chung (2024), “The Agency-Structure Problem in Peacebuilding: Constructing a Niche in the Korean Conflict”, The Pacific Review, 37: 1
– Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell (2023), ‘‘You Realise We’re Not the Only Ones Stuck Living Like This’: Comparative Learning, International Partnerships and Civil Society Peace Education in Conflict-Affected Societies’, Alternatives, 48: 4
– Dong Jin Kim and Andrew Ikhyun Kim (2022), “Global Health Diplomacy and North Korea in the Covid-19 Era”, International Affairs, 98: 3
– Dong Jin Kim (2022), “Reciprocal Empowerment for Civil Society Peacebuilding: Sharing Lessons between the Korean and Northern Ireland Peace Processes”, Globalizations, 19: 2
– David Mitchell, Dan Gudgeon and Dong Jin Kim (2022), “Sport and strategic peacebuilding: Northern Ireland and Korea compared”, Peacebuilding, 10: 1
– Youngseop Lim and Dong Jin Kim (2021), “Mobilising Social Movement for Peace: A Case Study on Christian Ecumenical Organisations in the Context of the Korean Conflict”, International Journal of Asian Christianity, 4: 2
– Dong Jin Kim (2020), “Beyond identity lines: women building peace in Northern Ireland and the Korean peninsula”, Asia Europe Journal, 18: 4
– Dong Jin Kim (2018), “Sharing Lessons between Peace Processes: A Comparative Case Study on the Northern Ireland and Korean Peace Processes”, Social Sciences, 7: 3
– Dong Jin Kim (2017), “Building Relationships Across the Boundaries: The Peacebuilding Role of Civil Society in the Korean Peninsula”, International Peacekeeping, 24: 4
– Dong Jin Kim (2016), “Aid to the Enemy: Linking Development and Peacebuilding on the Korean Peninsula”, The Pacific Review, 29: 4
– Dong Jin Kim (2013), “A Peace Studies Approach to North Korean Studies”, Hyundai Bukhan Yongu, 16: 3
– Dong Jin Kim (2013), “Finding the Value of Peace in Religions: Gandhi and the 88 Declaration”, Shinhak Sasang, 160
– Dong Jin Kim (2011), “Moral Limit and Possibility in Regime Transformation”, Shinhak Yongu, 59: 2, 2011
– Dong Jin Kim (2010), “A Comparative Analysis of Christianity, Juche and Islam in the US-North Korean Conflict and the US-Iran Conflict”, Shinhak Sasang, 151
Book chapters
– Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell (2022), “Peace processes and comparative research in Ireland, Korea and beyond,” Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell eds., Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea, Routledge
– Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell (2022), “Peace agreements and elite level peacemaking in Ireland and Korea: governance, security and context,” Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell eds., Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea, Routledge
– Gillian Wylie and Dong Jin Kim (2022), “The peacebuilding role of women within and between Ireland and Korea,” Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell eds., Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea, Routledge
– Sandra Buchannan and Dong Jin Kim (2022), “Supporting peacebuilding through socio-economic development in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland: sharing lessons for the Korean peace process,” Dong Jin Kim and David Mitchell eds., Reconciling Divided States: Peace Processes in Ireland and Korea, Routledge
– Dong Jin Kim (2020), “Peacebuilding and Korean Civil Society”, Oliver Richmond and Gëzim Visoka eds., The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies, Palgrave Macmillan
– Iain Atack and Dong Jin Kim (2020), “Civil Society and Non-Violent Political Action in Northern Ireland”, Clara Fischer and Áine Mahon eds., Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland, Routledge
– Dong Jin Kim (2020), “Aid to North Korea and Strategic Peacebuilding”, BukDaeBukhanYunguhoi ed., North Korea 2020: Past and Future, Paju, Korea, Yuksain
– Dong Jin Kim (2019), “Sustainability of Peace Process: Comparative Research on Northern Irish and Korean Peace Processes”, Institute of Trans-division and Border Studies ed., Shinhan University, Irish Peace Process and the Korean Peninsula, Seoul, Ulryuk
– Dong Jin Kim (2015), “The Peacebuilding Role of the Ecumenical Movement in Korea during the 1980s”, John O’Grady, Cathy Higgins and Jude Lal Fernando eds., Mining Truth Mining Truth: Festschrift in Honour of Geraldine Smyth OP – Ecumenical Theologian and Peacebuilder, EOS
– Brendan Howe and Dong Jin Kim (2014), “The Politicization of Humanitarian Assistance: Aid and Security on the Korean Peninsula”, Eun Mee Kim and Pil Ho Kim eds., The South Korean Development Experience: Beyond Aid, Palgrave Macmillan
Translations
– Dong Jin Kim (trans), Jake Lynch and Johan Galtung (original authors), Reporting Conflict: New Directions in Peace Journalism, Korean Edition (2016), SUNIN Books
– Dong Jin Kim (trans), John Paul Lederach (original author), Building Peace: Sustainable Reconciliation in Divided Societies, John Paul Lederach (original author), Korean Edition (2012), Humanitas Books
– Dong Jin Kim (trans), Stuart Rees (original author), Passion for Peace: Exercising Power Creatively, Korean Edition (2011), SAMIN Books