Peace Building and Participation in Northern Ireland: Local Social Movements and the Policy Process since the “Good Friday” Agreement

Acheson, Nicholas; Milofsky, Carl

doi:10.1080/17449050701858548

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“…The term 'unionist' typically refers to individuals (mostly Protestants) who favour the constitutional union between Northern Ireland and Great Britain; the term 'nationalist' refers to individuals (mostly Catholics) who support a politically independent nation of Ireland, independent from Great Britain. These ideas, from which some individuals deviate based on class affiliation, are often expressed in individual identities and displayed collectively (Graham 1997;Acheson and Milofsky 2008). 4 They are also endorsed by loyalists and republicans, respectively, through paramilitarism and/or dissident activity and, more recently, through their engagement in formal politics (Bean 2012).…”

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Visual and textual narratives of conflict-related displacement in Northern Ireland

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2014

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Combined textual and visual narratives and counternarratives illustrate a range of experiences in Northern Ireland's conflictual, spatial landscape. In this article, I argue that combined textual and visual narratives about conflictinstigated displacement create and articulate community-specific experiences of disadvantage, with the intention of gaining political recognition and/or advantage over other communities in ongoing processes of conflict transformation. I expose the multiple, contextualised meanings of selective narratives that are accessible in language and image but, that are rarely questioned because of the political influence of their tellers or, because of their scale. Their meanings and intentions exist alongside counternarratives about intracommunity displacement and displacement against other groups and are concurrent with public apathy, which serve to minimise their effectiveness as political tools to gain community-specific, social and political advantage. These narratives and counternarratives persist as key spatial markers and as sites on which conflict, and its effective transformation, are played out.

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Visual and textual narratives of conflict-related displacement in Northern Ireland

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2014

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“…Collaborative activity between state and civil society can increase social capital (Hibbitt et al, 2001), although community involvement in governance will be impeded if state mechanisms do not exist or are inappropriate (Acheson and Milofsky, 2008). Social capital may also be generated as part of counter-hegemonic campaigns run by civil society groups that choose not to collaborate with state agencies, although case study examples in the research literature are rare (Mayer, 2003).…”

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Bridging and Linking in a Divided Society

Muir¹

2010

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This paper reports the results of research into social capital levels in the Central Housing Community Network, part of the community consultation structure of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. Membership of the forum increased the bonding, bridging and linking social capital of its members and appeared to improve community relations, although that was not its stated purpose. However, the empirical link between social capital and the quality of community relations remains unproven. The research provides an example of the state creating a positive space for interaction with civil society through consultation on service delivery issues. In an international policy environment where 'mixed' communities are the ideal, the potential of service-based forums to contribute to community cohesion may have been underestimated.

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“…The politicians who were now in charge were keen to wrest control of policy from the voluntary sector which some saw as having gained too much influence (Acheson and Milofsky, 2008). Nevertheless the Executive was marked by a commitment to social partnership coupled with a strategy to develop funding streams through Executive Programme funds that would be devoted to social and economic policies specific to Northern Ireland, and that placed greater weight to the role of public administration and less on privatization than was becoming evident in England (Horgan, 2006).…”

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Peace Building and Participation in Northern Ireland: Local Social Movements and the Policy Process since the “Good Friday” Agreement

Cited by 14 publications

References 34 publications

Visual and textual narratives of conflict-related displacement in Northern Ireland

Visual and textual narratives of conflict-related displacement in Northern Ireland

Bridging and Linking in a Divided Society

Welfare state reform, compacts and restructuring relations between the state and the voluntary sector: reflections on Northern Ireland's experience

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