The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland Peace Lectures from the Institute of Irish Studies at Liverpool University

by Elliott, Marianne

• ISBN13: 9781846310652
• ISBN10: 1846310652
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-15
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

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 inThe 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 ofThe Long Road to Peace in Northern Irelandis an illuminating record of the ongoing peace processand its consequencestold by the people directly involved in its evolution.

Author Biography

Marianne Elliott is director of the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies and the author of several books, including Wolfe Tone: Prophet of Irish Independence and The Catholics of Ulster: A History. In 2000 she was awarded an OBE for services to Irish studies and the Nothern Ireland peace process.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
List of Contributors	p. x
List of Illustrations	p. xiv
Introduction to Revised Edition	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Achieving Transformational Change	p. 11
The Resolution of Armed Conflict: Internationalization and its Lessons, Particularly in Northern Ireland	p. 25
Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa	p. 44
The Secrets of the Oslo Channels: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans	p. 54
The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process	p. 67
'Give Us Another MacBride Campaign': An Irish-American Contribution to Peaceful Change in Northern Ireland	p. 78
Towards Peace in Northern Ireland	p. 89
Neither Orange March nor Irish Jig: Finding Compromise in Northern Ireland	p. 96
Mountain-climbing Irish-style: The Hidden Challenges of the Peace Process	p. 109
The Good Friday Agreement: A Vision for a New Order in Northern Ireland	p. 119
Hillsborough to Belfast: Is It the Final Lap?	p. 124
Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New Nationalism and Post-republicanism	p. 133
Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation	p. 147
Keeping Going: Beyond Good Friday	p. 157
Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland	p. 175
Getting to Know the 'Other': Inter-church Groups and Peace-building in Northern Ireland	p. 192
Enduring Problems: The Belfast Agreement and a Disagreed Belfast	p. 207
Key Recommendations of
The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973)	p. 223
The Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) Agreement (November 1985)	p. 228
The Opsahl Commission (June 1993)	p. 234
The Downing Street Joint Declaration (December 1993)	p. 249
The Framework Document (1995)	p. 254
The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement (April 1998)	p. 265
The Report of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission (Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, 1998)	p. 276
The Patten Report (1999)	p. 280
Review of the Parades Commission (Sir George Quigley, Sept. 2002), extracts	p. 296
Index	p. 306
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