IRA Associates: Understanding Non-Member Participation in the Provisional IRA
IRA Associates: Understanding Non-Member Participation in the Provisional IRA
Elizabeth Mason School of International Relations, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UKElizabeth Mason (B.A. St. Lawrence University, M.A. Freie Universität zu Berlin) is a PhD Candidate at the University of St. Andrews. Her research primarily is based around the principles of Täterforschung- perpetrator research, which analyses the individual factors and motivations leading to participation in mass violence. Her previous research has explored diverse arenas of mass violence including the psychological, physical, and sexual abuse enacted on First Nations and Aboriginal children in Residential Schools in Australia and Canada and the impact of traumatic stress on the decisions of UN peacekeepers during the Rwandan genocide and the Srebrenica massacre. Her current PhD research focuses on the motivations behind the participation of a-typical individuals in gunrunning, financing and public relations operations for the Provisional IRA during the Northern Ireland Troubles. She also continues to be a licensed guide at the Memorial and Museum of the former Concentration Camp Sachsenhausen in Oranienburg, Germany.