Some of the biggest projects to benefit include the Peace Bridge across the River Foyle and the proposed new Conflict Transformation centre at the Maze.
Still, "people who hold other people's money must manage for the other people's benefit and may not have interests that conflict with theirs, " she adds.
According to the Hay Group that specializes in compensation issues, corporate boards must assure that pay standards are fair and transparent, and that the process to assign compensation does not conflict with general employee benefit policies.
The main objectives are to explore how universities could benefit from incorporating conflict transformation and intercultural dialogue studies and skills into their academic curriculum, and to raise awareness of the importance of practical peace building skills in education.
The best way to contend with these and other emerging threats is to dissuade such adversaries from believing that conflict with the United States could ever redound to their benefit.
The central ethical tension in all research involving humans, in America as elsewhere, is a conflict between the best interests of the subject and the gain in knowledge that will benefit later generations.