Civil Society, Peacebuilding, and Economic Assistance in Northern Ireland
Local Knowledge, Wisdom, and Practices
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Civil Society, Peacebuilding, and Economic Assistance in Northern Ireland
Local Knowledge, Wisdom, and Practices
About this book
This book examines the role of local peacebuilders in Northern Ireland and some of the challenges they face.
The work explores the perspective and experiences of local peacebuilders in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland about their analysis and critique of liberal peacebuilding, their hopes, and concerns, and how they are aligned with external funders. It features interviews with a plethora of civil society organization workers, funding agency community development officers, and civil servants adjudicating the International Fund for Ireland and the European Union Peace and Rconciliation Fund, which highlight the participants' local wisdom, practices, and values regarding creating sustainable livelihoods, peacebuilding insights, receiving recognition for their work, dissonance with internal and external actors, conflict transformation efforts, and and engagement with partners and allies. The rich empirical qualitative exploratory case study, situated in post-peace accord Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland, speaks to the respondents' ideas about the creation, delivery, and efficacy of peacebuilding-funded initiatives as well as their hopes and dreams for the future. In exploring this central argument, the work offers an overarching structure in which to analyze the theory and praxis of conflict and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. More generally, it offers an important contribution to our understanding of local peacebuilders, and how economic assistance impacts on a divided society.
This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, sociology, and British and Irish politics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- 1 Local Expertsâ Wisdom, and Practices
- 2 Conflict and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
- 3 Your Work Is Done, or Your Work Is Not Done: Let the Past Wither on the Vine
- 4 We All Eat the Same Potatoes
- 5 âApathy is Frozen by Wordsâ1
- 6 Yeast Is to Bread What Economic Aid Is to Peace: The Peace-by-Prosperity Model
- 7 Better to Have a Peace Industry Than a War Industry: You Canât Eat a Flag
- 8 We Have the Experience but Miss the Meaning and Learning
- 9 Economic Aid and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland: Critical Peacebuilding Emancipated?
- References
- Index