Author : Jennifer Curtis
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 30,96 MB
Release : 2014-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0812246195
Combining firsthand ethnographic reportage with historical research, Human Rights as War by Other Means traces the use of rights discourse in Northern Ireland's politics from the local civil rights campaigns of the 1960s to present-day activism for truth recovery and LGBT equality.
Author : Eileen F. Babbitt
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 2009-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815651244
Preventing sweeping human rights violations or wars and rebuilding societies in their aftermath require an approach encompassing the perspectives of both human rights advocates and practitioners of conflict resolution. While these two groups work to achieve many of the same goals—notably to end violence and loss of life—they often make different assumptions, apply different methods, and operate under different values and institutional constraints. As a result, they may adopt conflicting or even mutually exclusive approaches to the same problem. Eileen F. Babbitt and Ellen L. Lutz have collected groundbreaking essays exploring the relationship between human rights and conflict resolution. Employing a case study approach, the contributing authors examine three areas of conflict—Sierra Leone, Colombia, and Northern Ireland—from the perspectives of participants in both the peace-making and human rights efforts in each country. By spotlighting the role of activists and reflecting on what was learned in these cases, this volume seeks to push scholars and practitioners of both conflict resolution and human rights to think more creatively about the intersection of these two fields.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Maria Power
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1846316596
Since the troubles began in the late 1960s, people in Northern Ireland have been working together to bring about a peaceful end to the conflict. Building Peace in Northern Irelandexamines the different forms of peace and reconciliation work that have taken place. Maria Power has brought together an international group of scholars to examine initiatives such as integrated education, faith-based peace building, cross-border cooperation, and women's activism, as well as the impact that government policy and European funding have had upon the development of peace and reconciliation organizations.
Author : John D. Brewer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0199694028
Religion is traditionally portrayed as nothing but trouble in Ireland, but the churches played a key role in Northern Ireland's peace process. This study challenges many existing assumptions about the peace process, drawing on four years of interviewing with those involved, including church leaders, politicians, and paramilitary members.
Author : Marc Mulholland
Publisher :
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 0198825005
Since the plantation of Ulster in the 17th century, Northern Irish people have been engaged in conflict - Catholic against Protestant, Republican against Unionist. This text explores the pivotal moments in this history.
Author : Mary E. Daly
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,92 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Northern Ireland
ISBN : 9781911479093
Irish civil servants and political advisers reveal their role in the Northern Ireland peace process. Their testimonies evoke a strong sense of the highly sensitive political environment in which they worked. They reflect on the impact of an ever-changing political landscape on prospects for advancing the peace process, and on the evolution of policy and thinking about Northern Ireland from the outbreak of violence in 1968 to the conclusion of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. These personal accounts offer insight into how the Irish tried to shape the course of the negotiation of a hard-won agreement.
Author : Marianne Elliott
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 33,82 MB
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1846310652
The ratification of the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 was the culmination of a lengthy and contentious peace process that involved the efforts of a committed team of political actors. In 2001, Marianne Elliott brought together a collection of essays by many of these pivotal figures in The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland, an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and politicians. Now Elliott, one of the most prominent chroniclers of Irish history, presents a fully updated edition with new essays commissioned to explore the events of the past five years. A period that saw successes such as the decommissioning of the Provisional IRA but also a rise in drug trafficking and organized crime, as a generation of men who have done nothing other than serve as paramilitaries are now finding their skills most valued as criminals. With contributions from U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell, Sir David Goodall, Jan Egeland, Lord Owen, and Peter Mandelsohn, the second edition of The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland is an illuminating record of the ongoing peace process—and its consequences—told by the people directly involved in its evolution.
Author : Julie Mertus
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 50,14 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781929223770
'Human rights and conflict' is divided into three parts, each capturing the role played by human rights at a different stage in the conflict cycle.
Author : Graham Dawson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 152610850X
This ground-breaking book provides the first comprehensive investigation of the history and memory of the Northern Ireland Troubles in Britain. It examines the impacts of the conflict upon individual lives, political and social relationships, communities and culture in Britain, and explores how the people of Britain (including its Irish communities) have responded to, and engaged with the conflict, in the context of contested political narratives produced by the State and its opponents. Setting an agenda for further research and public debate, the book demonstrates that 'unfinished business' from the conflicted past persists unaddressed in Britain, and advocates the importance of acknowledging legacies, understanding histories and engaging with memories in the context of peace-building and reconciliation.
