Beyond the Good Friday Agreement : How Former Enemies Are Creating a New Vision of Peace and Economic Security in Northern Ireland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassidy, Kevin J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Peace.

Conflict management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2026.

Summary:

Tells the story of how former members of the Irish Republican Army and Protestant paramilitary groups have joined forces to identify and address the critical economic needs of their working-class communities, healing the wounds inflicted by decades of conflict in the process.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

First Impressions / First Questions

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Conceptualizing the Study: Cross-Community Projects and "Organic Intellectuals"

A Cross-Community Vision

"Organic Intellectuals": A Theoretical Perspective for This Study

Chapter 2. Discovering the Other: Billy McQuiston as Cross-Community Worker and Organic Intellectual

Knowing the Other

Trusting the Other

Stormont as Anti-Working Class

Emerging Class Consciousness Through Participatory Democracy

Chapter 3. The Good Friday Agreement: Its Problematic Nature

Consociationalism: Why the Good Friday Agreement Is Inadequate

Transformationalism

Chapter 4. Working with the Other: Belfast Conflict Resolution Consortium Part I: Transforming Individuals

Vinton, Corr, and Marley: Converting to a New Vision

Knowing and Trusting

Individual Transformation

Chapter 5. Working with the Other: Belfast Conflict Resolution Consortium Part II: Transforming Society

From Local Voices: Class Consciousness

Reinterpreting Republicanism and Loyalism in Terms of Class

Empowering the Local Community

Community as "Deep Story"

Conclusion: "Little Labs of Democracy"

Chapter 6. Suffolk Lenadoon Interface Group: Overcoming Sectarianism and Building a New Economy

A Sectarian History

From Sectarianism to Cross-Community Planning

An Emerging Class Consciousness

Marching Bands and Soccer Tournaments: Growing the Vision

Participatory Democracy and a Critique of Stormont

Stormont's Noncooperation

Two Communities, Not One

Conclusion

Chapter 7. InterAction Belfast and Roisin McGlone: Creating Citizen Activism and Building a Political Force

Roisin McGlone, Activist

Phone Trees: Creating the "Engaged Community"

Knowing the Other.

Overcoming Obstacles to the New Vision: Parades and Flags

Criticizing Stormont: "The Right to Have a Say"

Chapter 8. Cromac Regeneration Initiative: Shared Needs Overcoming Sectarian Politics

The Players and the Challenge

Cromac: A Building, and a Vision

A "Hiccup": Identity Politics and the Challenge to the Cross-Community Vision

Cromac: A Balance Sheet

Chapter 9. Duncairn Gardens: Practicing Participative Democracy, Awakening Class Consciousness

Part I: Community Crisis, Community Activists

Part II: Community Safety: Three Cross-Community Projects

Part III: Fear and the Sectarian Politician

Chapter 10. Black Mountain Shared Space Project: "Little Labs of Democracy"

Part I: Poverty and Violence

Part II: Applying the Cross-Community Vision: Taking Action at Black Mountain

Part III: The Shared Community Building: Democratic Economic Development

Chapter 11. Under the Radar: Four Stories of Transforming Mindsets

Sara Cooke and Women Going Their Own Way

Forthspring

Territory and Class

Ballynafeigh

Place, Not Territory

A Theory of Social Change

Identity: Lost or Gained?

Chapter 12. Beyond the Good Friday Agreement: A New Politics of Empathy?

From Class Consciousness to Community

Community and the Critique of Stormont

Community and Participatory Democracy

Trust as the Supreme Value

Notes

Bibliographic Essay

Index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Cassidy, Kevin J. Beyond the Good Friday Agreement

ISBN:

9798855808117

OCLC:

1597386887