The Politics of Trauma and Peace-Building: Lessons from Northern Ireland

ISBN-13: 9780815371069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 160 str.

Cillian McGrattan

Opis

This book explores the debate on trauma and peacebuilding and presents the challenges for democratization that the politics of trauma present in transitional periods. It demonstrates how ideas about reconciliation are filtered through ideological lenses and become new ways of articulating communal and ethno-nationalist sentiments.

Spis treści

Introduction 1 The Politics of Trauma 2 Peacebuilding and the Politics of Responsibility 3 Peace-Building as Community Politics in Northern Ireland 4 Drawing on the Past: Ideology, Reconciliation and Nationalism in Northern Ireland 5 Historical Accountability and the Democratization of Memory 6 Literarity and Historical Responsibility Conclusion: Lessons from Northern Ireland

O autorze

Cillian McGrattan is Lecturer in Politics and a member of the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences at the University of Ulster.