Bonnie Weir
- Executive Director, Center for Peace and the Global Good
- Director, Peacebuilding Initiative
- Senior Lecturer
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46 Hillhouse Avenue
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About
Bonnie Weir is a senior lecturer of global affairs, the founder and director of the Peacebuilding Initiative at Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, and the inaugural director of the Center for Peace and the Global Good. Weir was assistant dean of undergraduate education 2023-26 and previously served as the co-director of the certificate program in Human Rights at Yale.
Weir’s research focuses mainly on political violence and post-conflict and group identity dynamics with an empirical concentration on Northern Ireland. Her current projects investigate whether and how sectarianism affects political behavior, shifting hostilities in post-conflict landscapes, and the consequences of minority rights provisions. She teaches courses on political violence and the “Troubles” and post-conflict politics in Northern Ireland.
Previously, Weir was a senior lecturer of political science and served as director of undergraduate studies for the Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale. She is a visiting scholar at the Institute for Global Peace, Security, and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast and regularly lectures for the Yale Young Global Scholars program and Weir is also on the board of Peaceful Schools International and works with a number of groups on applied and policy projects, including the Ad Hoc Committee to Protect the Good Friday Agreement and the Washington Ireland Program.
Education
- PhD in Political Science, University of Chicago
- BA in Political Science, College of the Holy Cross