Screen LibraryLost in transformation：violent peace and peaceful conflict in Northern Ireland
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Palgrave Macmillan,
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| Publisher Address: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rethinking peace and conflict studies |
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| Carrier Form: | xiii, 243: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780230280137 (hardback) 0230280137 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | D756 |
| CLC: | D756.162 |
| Call Number: | D756.162/M681 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : Peace-building or world-building? Peace interventions, conflict and violence -- Violence against conflict : radical peace, radical violence and the paradox of conflict transformation -- Radical violence and the beginning of 'the troubles' - Northern Ireland 1965-72 -- Radical peace? : The PEACE programmes and transformative peace-building strategies after 1994 -- Irresistable transformations : radical violence and the peace process -- From prison protest to peace process : the trans-formation of the 'ex-combatant' -- Long division : ex-combatants, transformation and radical threat -- Dangerous remainders : long division and cycles of violence in the Northern Ireland 'peace process' -- Conclusions : From peace-building to (plural) world-building? Implications for peace and conflict studies. "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 it reinterprets several phenomena that challenge the "peace process" in Northern Ireland"-- |