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Irish Theological Quarterly
The Irish Churches Peace Project: A Catalyst for Peace2020 •
The Irish Churches Peace Project was an EU funded project undertaken collaboratively by the four biggest denominations in Northern Ireland and the Irish Council of Churches. Over two years it engaged with hundreds of church leaders and church members to stimulate good relations and community engagement, particularly in areas where churches had not previously engaged across community divisions. This article records the methodology developed by the project to encourage and deepen cross community engagement, explores the operant and espoused theologies of reconciliation associated with the project, and highlights key insights as to utilizing the potential within religious traditions for overcoming conflict and division. ICCP's experience is applicable to future projects in Northern Ireland and other contexts in which divisions within communities are sustained by religious difference.
International Journal of Public Theology
Religion, Identity and Politics in Northern Ireland: Boundaries of Belonging and Belief by Claire Mitchell (Ashgate, 2006)2007 •
You could find this paper on http://www.centrumjp2.pl/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Bridging-the-Divides-Postconference-Publication.pdf
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years of armed conflict in Northern Ireland, during which paramilitary organizations, divided along religious and ethno-national lines, violently opposed economic and political disparity. What occurred in the years leading up to the Good Friday Agreement, which finally resulted in a viable peace process to a seemingly intractable conflict? One significant difference was the engagement of paramilitary organizations by middle-range, religious peacemakers throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Through the development and implementation of a “politics of forgiveness”, religious peacemakers encouraged parties involved in violence to enter into a peace process. This process involved (a) the breaking down of myths of mutual distrust, (b) a call to conscience, and (c) intra- and inter-group trust-building through dialogue. After defining several key terms, this paper shall (a) provide a brief profile of two prominent middle-range, religious peacemakers in Northern Ireland- Fr. Alex Reid and Rev. D...
Ethnopolitics
Symbolic Complexity and Political Division: The Changing Role of Religion in Northern Ireland2010 •
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Treatises and Documents, Journal of Ethnic Studies
Contested Spaces and Everyday Peace Politics in Northern Ireland2021 •
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Irish Political Studies
Breaking Patterns of Conflict in Northern Ireland: New Perspectives2014 •
Irish Ethnologies, ed Diarmuid O Giollain
Pluralism and Silence Protestants and Catholics in the Republic of Ireland2017 •
International Crisis Group
In Ireland, Israel’s Religious Right Engages with Ideas for Peace2017 •
Nationalism and Ethnic Politics
Northern Ireland: From Multiphased Conflict to Multilevelled Settlement2009 •
Social Policy and Society
Peace Building in Northern Ireland: A Role for Civil Society2011 •
Irish Political Studies
Critical Theory and Ethno-National Conflict: Assessing Northern Ireland's Peace Process as a Model of Conflict Resolution2007 •
Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
Violence and the Sacred in Northern Ireland1995 •