...Eleanor Leah Williams; Giada Lagana Purpose This paper aims to examine how Irish and British civil servants contributed to structuring the political and procedural conditions for peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. It asks what kind of governance architecture enabled compromise across conflict...

...David E. Schmitt Northern Ireland Peace process Low-intensity war Timothy J. White Lessons from the Northern Ireland Peace Process University of Wisconsin Press Publication Date: February 4, 2014 342 978-0-299-29704-6 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014...

.... Practical implications Understanding the conditions for successfully using the exit‐option is vital for policy‐makers, in particular for peace diplomacy efforts in other contexts than the Northern Ireland one. Originality/value The paper challenges previous explanations for why threats by mediators...

...Eyob Fissuh; Olga Skarlato; Sean Byrne; Peter Karari; Ahmad Kawser Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the importance of cross‐communal cooperation and its contribution to peacebuilding and reconciliation in Northern Ireland through the opinions of 752 respondents. Design...

...David Dickson; Owen Hargie Purpose The aim of this piece of research was to detail the scope and nature of sectarianism as experienced by employees, managers and those with trade union responsibilities, in the Northern Ireland workplace. Design/methodology/approach Four large organizations...

..., and political contexts in which they operate. Together with Granger causality tests, multivariate time‐series analyses of political deaths in Northern Ireland support a multi‐causal perspective. Reflecting identity differences, Loyalist violence but not Republican violence was likely to increase during months...