Lost in Transformation: Violent Peace and Peaceful Conflict in Northern Ireland (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)
β Scribed by Audra Mitchell
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 258
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
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 "peace process" in Northern Ireland.
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 9
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 13
1 Introduction: Peace-Building or World-Building? Peace Interventions, Conflict and Violence......Page 16
2 Violence against Conflict: Radical Peace, Radical Violence and the Paradox of Conflict Transformation......Page 39
3 Radical Violence and the Beginning of 'the Troubles' β Northern Ireland 1965β72......Page 60
4 Radical Peace?: The PEACE Programmes and Transformative Peace-Building Strategies after 1994......Page 88
5 Irresistible Transformations: Radical Violence and the Peace Process......Page 107
6 From Prison Protest to Peace Process: The Trans-Formation of the 'Ex-Combatant'......Page 132
7 Long Division: Ex-Combatants, Transformation and Radical Threat......Page 153
8 Dangerous Remainders: Long Division and Cycles of Violence in the Northern Ireland 'Peace Process'......Page 183
9 Conclusions: From Peace-Building to (Plural) World-Building? Implications for Peace and Conflict Studies......Page 217
Notes......Page 239
Bibliography......Page 240
Index......Page 255
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