Peace interventions can promote violence, while conflict may be a crucial means for constraining and preventing it. This book explores these statements, re-thinking the relationships between peace, conflict and violence. From this perspective it reinterprets several phenomena that challenge the "peace process" in Northern Ireland.
Language
English
Pages
272
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Release
March 15, 2011
ISBN
0230280137
ISBN 13
9780230280137
Lost in Transformation: Violent Peace and Peaceful Conflict in Northern Ireland
Peace interventions can promote violence, while conflict may be a crucial means for constraining and preventing it. This book explores these statements, re-thinking the relationships between peace, conflict and violence. From this perspective it reinterprets several phenomena that challenge the "peace process" in Northern Ireland.