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
Summary
"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 the "peace process" in Northern Ireland"-- Provided by publisher