Transforming Conflict Through Social and Economic Development Practice and Policy Lessons from Northern Ireland and the Border Counties

by Buchanan, Sandra

• ISBN13: 9780719088230
• ISBN10: 0719088232
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2014-03-20
• Publisher: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

Transforming Conflict examines lessons learned from the Northern Ireland and border counties conflict transformation process through social and economic development and their consequent impacts and implications for practice and policymaking, with a range of functional recommendations produced for other regions emerging from and seeking to transform violent conflict. It provides, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the region's transformation activity over more than two decades, enabled by a number of specific funding programmes, namely the International Fund for Ireland, Peace I and II and INTERREG I, II and IIIA. These programmes have been responsible for a huge increase in grassroots practice which to date has attracted virtually no academic analysis; this book seeks to fill this gap.

Transforming Conflict is essential reading for students, practitioners and policymakers in the fields of peace and conflict studies, conflict transformation, peacebuilding, post-agreement reconstruction and the political economy of conflict and those interested in contemporary developments in the Northern Ireland peace process.

Author Biography

Sandra Buchanan is a senior staff member of Co Donegal Education and Training Board's Adult Education Service and a conflict transformation practitioner. This research, based on her practice, was completed through the University of Ulster, UK.

Table of Contents

PART I: SETTING THE CONTEXT
1. Introduction
2. Conflict Transformation – Providing a Theoretical Framework
3. Social and Economic Context of the Northern Ireland Conflict
PART II: EXAMINING THE IMPACTS
4. Conflict Transformation Programmes Outlined
5. Impacts of the Tools on Conflict Transformation Practice
PART III: LEARNING AND RECOMMENDATIONS
6. Lessons Learned, Implications and Recommendations for Practice
7. Conclusion
Appendix 1: Peace II – Funding Delivery Mechanisms
Appendix 2: Peace I – Priorities and Measures
Appendix 3: Peace II – Priorities and Measures
Appendix 4: INTERREG I – Sub-Programmes and Measures
Appendix 5: INTERREG II – Sub-Programmes and Measures
Appendix 6: INTERREG IIIA – Priorities and Measures
Bibliography
Index