The Peacebuilding Elements of the Belfast Agreement and the Transformation of the Northern Ireland ConflictPeter Lang, 2009 - 395 pages The aim of this book is to analyse whether the implementation of the peacebuilding elements of the Belfast Agreement contributed to the transformation of the protracted Northern Ireland Conflict. Therefore, this book deals with the following sections of the Agreement: Rights, Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity, Decommissioning, Security, Policing and Justice, and Prisoners. The author comes to the conclusion that the majority of the peacebuilding elements contributed to the transformation of the Northern Ireland Conflict. The results of the study were obtained in conducting interviews, in consulting surveys, and in studying reports and other relevant literature on the recent developments in Northern Ireland. |
Contents
Contents | 15 |
Introduction | 21 |
Theoretical Background 2929 | 29 |
Background to the Belfast Agreement | 30 |
Rights Safeguards and Equality of Opportunity | 79 |
The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland | 100 |
Victims of Violence and Reconciliation | 122 |
Integrated Education Integrating Education | 138 |
Security | 231 |
Policing | 246 |
The Review of the Criminal Justice System in Northern Ireland | 294 |
The Release of Paramilitary Prisoners | 329 |
The Northern Ireland Conflict transformed? | 345 |
| 355 | |
Appendix List of Interviews | 393 |
Decommissioning Security Policing Justice and Prisoners | 207 |
Common terms and phrases
April Belfast Agreement Bill of Rights British Catholic ceasefires cent chapter Commission for Northern Commission on Decommissioning community relations Community Safety conflict transformation Criminal Justice Review criminal justice system Democratic Unionist Party Deputy First Minister District Policing Partnerships DPPs economic Equality Commission Fair Employment following website Human Rights Commission ibid implementation Independent International Commission Independent Monitoring Commission integrated education integrated schools Ireland Human Rights Ireland Policing Board Irish Governments Irish language Irish Republican Army issues Justice Review Group Minority Languages nationalist Northern Ireland Assembly Northern Ireland Conflict Northern Ireland Human Northern Ireland Office Northern Ireland Policing Northern Irish organisations paragraph paramilitary groups Patten Report peace process PIRA Police Ombudsman Police Service political programme Protestants PSNI published recommendations reform Regional or Minority Republic of Ireland restorative justice restorative justice schemes Royal Ulster Constabulary September 2006 Service of Northern Sinn Féin Strategy Ulster Unionist Party United Kingdom Government