Lost in Transformation

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction: Peace-Building or World-Building? Peace Interventions, Conflict and Violence

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   Pages 1-23

3. Violence against Conflict: Radical Peace, Radical Violence and the Paradox of Conflict Transformation

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   Pages 24-44

4. Radical Violence and the Beginning of ‘the Troubles’ — Northern Ireland 1965–72

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   Pages 45-72

5. Radical Peace?: The PEACE Programmes and Transformative Peace-Building Strategies after 1994

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   Pages 73-91

6. Irresistible Transformations: Radical Violence and the Peace Process

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   Pages 92-116

7. From Prison Protest to Peace Process: The Trans-Formation of the ‘Ex-Combatant’

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   Pages 117-137

8. Long Division: Ex-Combatants, Transformation and Radical Threat

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   Pages 138-167

9. Dangerous Remainders: Long Division and Cycles of Violence in the Northern Ireland ‘Peace Process’

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   Pages 168-201

10. Conclusions: From Peace-Building to (Plural) World-Building? Implications for Peace and Conflict Studies

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    Pages 202-223

11. Back Matter

    Pages 224-243

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Peace interventions can promote violence, whilst 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.

• conflict
• conflict studies
• intervention
• Peace
• peace and conflict
• Peace Process
• Protest
• transformation
• violence
• european union politics
• British Politics

• University of York, UK

  Audra Mitchell

AUDRA MITCHELL Lecturer in International Relations at the University of York, UK. Her work on conflict, violence, security, peace and the ethics of international intervention has been published in Review of International Studies, Millennium Journal of International Studies and International Peace-keeping.

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