Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process (History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora) - Softcover

White, Timothy J.; Mansergh, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299297047 ISBN 13: 9780299297046

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013

Synopsis

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 emphasises 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 fills a void by articulating the lessons learned and how―or whether―the peace processes can be applied to other regional conflicts.

About this title

About the Author

Timothy J. White is professor of political science at Xavier University, USA. His articles on the peace process in Northern Ireland have appeared in Dynamics of Asymmetric Conflict, British Politics Review, and Peace Review. He was a visiting fellow at the Moore Institute at the National University of Ireland Galway.

Martin G.S. Mansergh is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician and historian. He was a Teachta Dála for the Tipperary South constituency from May 2007 until his defeat at the general election in February 2011.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299297047
• ISBN 13: 9780299297046
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264