Transforming the Peace Process in Northern Ireland: From Terrorism to Democratic Politics - Hardcover

Aaron Edwards

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0716529556 ISBN 13: 9780716529552

Publisher: Irish Academic Press Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This book focuses on the decade since the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in 1998, as political and paramilitary actors attempt to adjust to the rigors of democratic participation. It delineates the key stumbling blocks in the current peace and political processes and examines in detail just how the conversion from terrorism to democratic politics is being managed in post-conflict Northern Ireland. It aims to fill a gap in the literature by juxtaposing top-level political party and inter-governmental politics alongside middle-range civil society interventions and grass-roots community level politics. Moreover, it provides an empirically informed examination of the central political ideologies, parties and identities at play, as well as the methodologies by which paramilitary groupings are attempting to deal with the legacies of the past conflict. The book draws its contributors from across the disciplinary boundaries of political science, history, anthropology, sociology and political sociology and is situated within a broad analytical and theoretical framework.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Aaron Edwards, INCORE (International Conflict Research), University of Ulster and Stephen Bloomer, The Other View Magazine, Northern Ireland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Irish Academic Press Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0716529556
• ISBN 13: 9780716529552
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Aaron Edwards, Stephen Bloomer