Peace interventions can promote violence, while conflict may be a crucial means for constraining and preventing it. This book explores these statements, re-thinking the relationships between peace, conflict and violence. From this perspective itΒ reinterprets several phenomena that challenge the "pea
Lost in Transformation: Violent Peace and Peaceful Conflict in Northern Ireland
β Scribed by Audra Mitchell (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 257
- Series
- Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction: Peace-Building or World-Building? Peace Interventions, Conflict and Violence....Pages 1-23
Violence against Conflict: Radical Peace, Radical Violence and the Paradox of Conflict Transformation....Pages 24-44
Radical Violence and the Beginning of βthe Troublesβ β Northern Ireland 1965β72....Pages 45-72
Radical Peace?: The PEACE Programmes and Transformative Peace-Building Strategies after 1994....Pages 73-91
Irresistible Transformations: Radical Violence and the Peace Process....Pages 92-116
From Prison Protest to Peace Process: The Trans-Formation of the βEx-Combatantβ....Pages 117-137
Long Division: Ex-Combatants, Transformation and Radical Threat....Pages 138-167
Dangerous Remainders: Long Division and Cycles of Violence in the Northern Ireland βPeace Processβ....Pages 168-201
Conclusions: From Peace-Building to (Plural) World-Building? Implications for Peace and Conflict Studies....Pages 202-223
Back Matter....Pages 224-243
β¦ Subjects
Terrorism and Political Violence; European Union Politics; International Relations; British Politics; Conflict Studies; Political Science
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