Economic assistance and the Northern Ireland conflict : building the peace dividend / Sean Byrne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Byrne, Sean, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance--Northern Ireland.

Economic assistance.

Peace-building--Northern Ireland.

Peace-building.

Political violence--Northern Ireland.

Political violence.

Conflict management.

Politics and government.

Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland--Politics and government--20th century.

Conflict management--Northern Ireland.

Physical Description:

186 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, [2009]

Summary:

Byrne's study explores the participants' images of economic assistance to explain the importance of tailoring economic assistance to the distinctive social needs of the targeted communities, and how third parties must consider and include local perspectives in their attempts to build the peace. This study explains the importance of economic and social development in promoting cross-community contact as well as within single-identity communities prior to encouraging economic exchange between communities, and the need for a multi-track intervention approach to transform the conflict in Northern Ireland. The book makes an important contribution to our understanding of how economic assistance impacts a divided society with a history of protracted violence and provides important perspectives of what could be called the "peace through development" idea. However, it is important to note that economic aid to promote a change in Northern Ireland's economic well-being is also tied into the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which has, at its center, a comprehensive range of new political power-sharing institutions.

The stories reflect the importance of community development and cross-community contact through joint economic, peace and justice, and social development projects. Byrne's research brings to light a vision of how the impact and delivery of IFI and EU Peace I aid is assisting in building the peace dividend in Northern Ireland. One of the key unanswered questions related to economic aid and preventing future violence is what is the significance and importance of external economic aid in building the peace after violence. By examining the respondents' political imagery, this project significantly expands existing work on economic aid and peace building in other societies coming out of violence. Northern Ireland's changing social-economic and political context reflects the fact that economic aid and sustainable economic development is a comerstone of the peace-building process.

Contents:

The International Fund for Ireland and the European Union Peace I Fund : building the peace dividend in Northern Ireland

The Northern Ireland conflict : analysis and resolution

Economic development and assistance in peace building : the transformation of post-conflict ethnopolitical conflict

Economic assistance and people's perceptions of economic development and community capacity building

Economic assistance and people's perceptions of community empowerment and capacity building

Economic assistance and people's perceptions of reconciliation and cross-community relationships

Conclusions: Building peace in Northern Ireland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index.

ISBN:

9780838641866

0838641865

OCLC:

230729398