Lost in transformation [electronic resource] : violent peace and peaceful conflict in Northern Ireland / Audra Mitchell.

"Peace interventions can promote violence, while conflict may be a crucial means for constraining and preventing it. This book explores these statements, re-thinking the relationships between peace, conflict and violence. From this perspective it reinterprets several phenomena that challenge th...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author: Mitchell, Audra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, ©2011.
Series:Rethinking peace and conflict studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Peace-building or World-building? Peace Interventions, Conflict and Violence Violence Against Conflict
  • Radical Peace, Radical Violence and The Paradox of Conflict Transformation Radical Violence and the Beginning of 'the Troubles'
  • Northern Ireland 1965-72 Radical Peace? the PEACE Programmes and Transformative Peace-building Strategies After 1994 Irresistible Transformation: Radical Violence and the Peace Process From Prison Protest to Peace Process: The Trans-formation of the 'Ex-Combatant' Long Division: Ex-combatants, Transformation and Radical Threat Dangerous Remainders: Long Division and Cycles of Violence in the Northern Ireland 'Peace Process' Conclusions: From Peace-Building to (Plural) World-Building? Implications for Peace and Conflict Studies Bibliography.