Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process

Timothy J. White, Timothy J. White

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9780299297039
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Histoire du monde

From the early 1970s through the mid-1990s, Northern Ireland was the site of bitter conflict between those struggling for reunification with the rest of Ireland and those wanting the region to remain a part of the United Kingdom. After years of strenuous negotiations, nationalists and unionists came together in 1998 to sign the Good Friday Agreement. Northern Ireland's peace process has been deemed largely successful. Yet remarkably little has been done to assess in a comprehensive fashion what can be learned from it. Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process incorporates recent research that emphasizes the need for civil society and a grassroots approach to peacebuilding while taking into account a variety of perspectives, including neoconservatism and revolutionary analysis. The contributions, which include the reflections of those involved in the negotiation and implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, also provide policy prescriptions for modern conflicts. This collection of essays in Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process fills a void by articulating the lessons learned and how—or whether—the peace processes can be applied to other regional conflicts.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Foreword - Martin Mansergh
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process: An Introduction - Timothy J. White
• 2. “Look at Northern Ireland”: Lessons Best Learned at Home - William A. Hazleton
• 3. Peace from the People: Identity Salience and the Northern Irish Peace Process - Landon E. Hancock
• 4. Ulster-Scots Diaspora: Articulating Politics of Identification after “the Peace” in Northern Ireland - Wendy Ann Wiedenhoft Murphy and Mindy Peden
• 5. The Victory and Defeat of the IRA? : Neoconservative Interpretations of the Northern Ireland Peace Process - Paul Dixon
• 6. The Transformation of Policing in Postconflict Societies: Lessons from the Northern Ireland Experience - John Doyle
• 7. The Lessons of Third-Party Intervention? : The Curious Case of the United States in Northern Ireland - Mary-Alice C. Clancy
• 8. Peacebuilding, Community Development, and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland: The Role of the Belfast Agreement and the Implications for External Economic Aid - Olga Skarlato, Eyob Fissuh, Sean Byrne, Peter Karari, and Kawser Ahmed
• 9. Extending Peace to the Grassroots: The Need for Reconciliation in Northern Ireland after the Agreement - Timothy J. White, Andrew P. Owsiak, and Meghan E. Clarke
• 10. Sources of Peace: The Decline of Revolutionary Nationalism and the Beginning of the Peace Processes in Northern Ireland and the Middle East - Robert S. Snyder
• 11. Conclusion - Timothy J. White
• Contributors
• Index