Transforming conflict through social and economic development : practice and policy lessons from Northern Ireland and the Border Counties / Sandra Buchanan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchanan, Sandra.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace-building--Ireland.

Peace-building.

Ireland--Social conditions--20th century.

Ireland.

Social conditions.

Ireland--Economic conditions--1949-.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xii, 290 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press, 2014.

Summary:

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 among 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 first 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Setting the context

1 Conflict transformation - towards a theoretical framework 23

2 Social and economic context of the Northern Ireland conflict 50

Part II Examining the impacts

3 Conflict transformation programmes outlined 87

4 Impacts of the tools on conflict transformation practice 103

Part III Learning and recommendations

5 Lessons learned, implications and recommendations for practice 199

6 Conclusion 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [264]-281) and index.

ISBN:

9780719088230

0719088232

OCLC:

864093277