Martin Burns grew up in Glen Cove, New York. He went on to receive a BA in International Relations from Tufts University and a Masters in Government from the Johns Hopkins University. Most recently, Martin received a Masters in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice from the Queen’s University in Belfast. Martin’s dissertation at Queen’s focused on how the Sinn Féin leadership persuaded the broad Irish Republican constituency to support the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in 1998. His work received praise for its originality and for his extensive interviews with major decision makers such as former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams.
While at Queen’s, the Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, a flagship for interdisciplinary research in areas of major societal change, published several of Martin’s blogs on international relations and conflict transformation. During his time at Johns Hopkins, Martin closely examined Kennedy’s relationship to American liberalism and his Vietnam policy.
Martin has worked as a congressional aide, journalist, political consultant and lobbyist for a leading non-profit. Martin currently is an independent journalist and has been published by The Hill in Washington, DC and the London Byline Times as well as other outlets in the United States, United Kingdom and the Irish Republic. .
Martin and his wife Mary Liz reside on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
