Global Change, Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Peace Process

Northern Ireland's Belfast Agreement has faced continual crises of implementation over a variety of security related issues. This book places the implementation of the Belfast Agreement in a wide context to provide an analysis of why implementation has been so difficult.

'Ten years on from the Belfast Agreement, this book provides a timely, refreshing and much welcomed contribution to the non-elite discourse on contemporary Northern Ireland and is particularly useful for those seeking to understand the management of conflict transformation processes beyond political agreements.' - Sandra Buchanan, Political Studies Review

Autorentext
GLADYS GANIEL Lecturer in Reconciliation Studies, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland ADRIAN GUELKE Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland ELIZABETH MEEHAN Professor Emeritus in the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland MICHAEL POTTER Policy and Research Officer, Training for Women Network, Northern Ireland DAVID RUSSELL Visiting Research Fellow, School of Education, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland DAVID E. SCHMITT Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA RUPERT TAYLOR Associate Professor of Politics, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa ROBIN WILSON Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Constitution Unit, University College, London, UK

Inhalt
Introduction: Political Change in a Divided Society: The Implementation of the Belfast Agreement; C.Farrington PART ONE: GLOBAL CHANGE AND THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION 'We're not quite as interesting as we used to be': Interpreting the International Dimension; C.Farrington The US War on Terrorism and Its Impact on the Politics of Accommodation in Northern Ireland; D.Schmitt The Lure of the Miracle? The South African Connection and the Northern Ireland Peace Process; A.Guelke From the European Union in Northern Ireland to Northern Ireland in the European Union; E.Meehan PART TWO: CIVIL SOCIETY Models of Civil Society and their Implications for the Northern Ireland Peace Process; C.Farrington Women, Civil Society and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: Paths to Peace through Women's Empowerment; M.Potter A Framework for Understanding Religion in Northern Irish Civil Society; G.Ganiel PART THREE: CONSOCIATIONALISM AND CIVIL SOCIETY The Belfast Agreement and the Limits of Consociationalism; R.Taylor From Violence to Intolerance: Ethno-Nationalism and the Crowding out of Civic Life; R.Wilson Power Sharing and Civic Leadership in Lebanon and Northern Ireland; D.Russell