Dr Brandon Hamber is Director of INCORE, an associate site of the United Nations University based at the University of Ulster. He trained in South Africa as a Clinical Psychologist. Prior to moving to Northern Ireland, he co-ordinated the Transition and Reconciliation Unit at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg.

He has participated in peace initiatives, research projects and consultancies in Liberia, Mozambique, Bosnia, the Basque Country and Sierra Leone, among others. He has written extensively on truth commissions and the psychological implications of political violence. He has published some 40 book chapters and scientific journal articles, and is the author of Transforming Societies after Political Violence: Truth, Reconciliation, and Mental Health.