Global Change, Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Peace Process - (New Security Challenges) by C Farrington (Hardcover)

About the Book

This book places the implementation of the Belfast Agreement in a wider context to provide an analysis of why implementation has been so difficult.

Book Synopsis

Northern Ireland's Belfast Agreement has faced continual crises of implementation over a variety of security related issues. This book places the implementation of the Belfast Agreement in a wide context to provide an analysis of why implementation has been so difficult.

Review Quotes

'Ten years on from the Belfast Agreement, this book provides a timely, refreshing and much welcomed contribution to the non-elite discourse on contemporary Northern Ireland and is particularly useful for those seeking to understand the management of conflict transformation processes beyond political agreements.' - Sandra Buchanan, Political Studies Review

About the Author

GLADYS GANIEL Lecturer in Reconciliation Studies, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland ADRIAN GUELKE Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland ELIZABETH MEEHAN Professor Emeritus in the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland MICHAEL POTTER Policy and Research Officer, Training for Women Network, Northern Ireland DAVID RUSSELL Visiting Research Fellow, School of Education, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland DAVID E. SCHMITT Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA RUPERT TAYLOR Associate Professor of Politics, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa ROBIN WILSON Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Constitution Unit, University College, London, UK