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About Adrian Guelke
- Adrian Guelke (born 15 June 1947) is Professor of Comparative Politics in the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
- He was previously Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg from 1993 to 1995.
- After attending Diocesan College, Rondebosch, Cape Town, he studied for his BA and MA at the University of Cape Town and his PhD at the London School of Economics.
- He specialises in the comparative study of ethnic conflict, particularly the cases of Northern Ireland, his native South Africa and Kashmir.
- He is chair of the International Political Science Association's research committee on politics and ethnicity.
- And, as of 2013, Editor of the Academic Journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.
- [1] In 1991 he survived an assassination attempt at his Belfast home.
- Leon Flores, a member of the South African Defence Forces' intelligence branch, doctored a police report that described an academic at Queen's who was known to be involved in the IRA, substituting Guelke's name into the report.
- Flores then contacted the Ulster Defence Association, who attempted to shoot Guelke.
- He was saved because the gun used by the would-be assassin jammed.
- Henry McDonald and Jim Cusack report that "The UDA now acknowledges that it was being used by the South African authorities to take out a political enemy, and that Dr Guelke was innocent of the charge of aiding the IRA".
- The case features in Paul Larkin's book A Very British Jihad: Collusion, Conspiracy and Cover-Up in Northern Ireland.
- Guelke is critical of the book, arguing in a review of it that his shooting "hardly demonstrates the intimate level of collusion that [Larkin] wishes to suggest existed among the loyalists, elements of the security forces and the apartheid regime".
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