Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland write by Colin Knox. This book was released on 2016-05-31. Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the role played by one important external stakeholder, Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited-life foundation, in helping to build peace and promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is now referred to as a post-conflict society largely due to the absence of political violence and relatively stable political institutions. These are necessary but insufficient conditions for what Galtung has described as ‘positive peace’, which requires a more fundamental review of the structural inequalities that contributed to the conflict in the first place. Using detailed case studies the authors illustrate the role played by voluntary and community sector groups, funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, in influencing the public policy agenda and securing long term systemic changes. They also critique the work of Atlantic as a ‘pay to play’ organization whose original mission moved from funding the higher education sector on the island of Ireland to become a key foundation with a significant role in the peace process.
Transforming conflict through social and economic development
Transforming conflict through social and economic development - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Transforming conflict through social and economic development write by Sandra Buchanan. This book was released on 2016-05-16. Transforming conflict through social and economic development available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Transforming conflict through social and economic development 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, largely amongst grassroots actors, enabled by a number of specific funding programmes, namely the International Fund for Ireland, Peace I, II and III 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. In focusing on the politics of the socioeconomic activities that underpinned the elite negotiations of the peace process, key theoretical transformation concepts are firstly explored, followed by an examination of the social and economic context of Northern Ireland and the border counties. The three programmes and their impacts are then assessed before considering what policy lessons can be learned and what recommendations can be made for practice. This is underpinned by a range of semi-structured interviews and the author’s own experience as a project promoter through these programmes in the border counties for more than a decade. The book will be 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.
Building Peace in Northern Ireland
Building Peace in Northern Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Building Peace in Northern Ireland write by Maria Power. This book was released on 2011-01-01. Building Peace in Northern Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Anti-Sectarianism and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland
Anti-Sectarianism and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Anti-Sectarianism and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland write by Cillian McGrattan. This book was released on . Anti-Sectarianism and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
American Policy and Northern Ireland
American Policy and Northern Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Policy and Northern Ireland write by Joseph E. Thompson. This book was released on 2001-03-30. American Policy and Northern Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thompson examines the U.S. role--both governmental and that of Irish-Americans--in attempting to bring a resolution to the strife in Northern Ireland. He concentrates on the efforts since 1967, particularly the growth of American efforts to become the central humanitarian player in the peace process. The U.S. government stance was initially one of strict non-involvement. However, in the aftermath of Vietnam and Watergate, diminished White House authority encouraged Irish-American groups to challenge the traditional Irish policy. Movement away from strict non-involvement began with Congressional concern for the rising specter of Irish-American anger at the treatment of northern Irish Catholics. An important transition to humanitarian policy occurred during the Reagan Administration. Contributing factors that helped the U.S. government take a new direction in foreign policy were America's failure to respond to the escalation of Northern Ireland violence, a strong personal ethnic tie between the U.S. President and Speaker of the House O'Neill, a personal link between President Reagan and Prime Minister Thatcher, and intense lobbying by Irish-Americans and the Irish government. After a brief period of silent diplomacy during the Bush administration, the Clinton administration succeeded in a public blitz to endorse steps necessary to bring peace closer.
