David Bloomfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 1417819 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Bloomfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloomfield |
| SIGNATURE | BLOOMFIELD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3639-7065 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Developing Dialogue in Northern Ireland
This is the first published study of the political negotiations in Ireland in 1992. Based on interviews with many of the participants and on unprecedented access to the confidential talks documents, i
Developing Dialogue in Northern Ireland
Preface Dramatis Personae Introduction The Best Job in British Politics Musical Chairs An Air of Optimism Strand One-and-a-Half Tension on Demand Happiness Abounds Yes! We're Going to Crack This! The Riddle of the Strands Just a Step Along the Way Stockpiling Obstacles Appendix 1: Possible Outline Framework Appendix 2: The Ninian Stephen Document Bibliography Index
Political Dialogue in Northern Ireland
In 1991 the politicians of Northern Ireland sat down at the formal negotiating table for the first time in seventeen years. This book tells the fascinating story of the Initiative's three years of pai
Concluding Remarks
In the Introduction, I referred to the pressing need, in the post-Cold War context, to broaden the definitions and approaches of conflict management beyond the old power-based strategies of containment in order to take account of those more subjective, but no less potent, factors clustering around issues of identity and communal security. This study has in part tried to demonstrate that to ignore, or to under-represent, the perceptual layers whic…
Conflict Management Practice
In the Introduction, I referred to peacemaking initiatives in Northern Ireland since 1968, both at the political and the community level. The processes involved at the two levels can be differentiated into structural and cultural processes respectively (Ruane and Todd, 1990).
Complementarity in Practice
Complementarity between the two practical approaches in Northern Ireland is more than merely a hypothesis advanced in an academic study. The review in Chapters 2 and 3 of the history of these approaches may give the impression of two largely discrete processes in independent operation, which Chapter 5’s analysis of the Brooke Initiative in the main does little to contradict. Chapter 6’s examination of recent development trends in community relati…
The Community Relations Council
In Chapter 3, I traced the development of cultural initiatives from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, noting the gradual development of a coherent approach and a constituency of practitioners. After the failure of the flawed structural attempt to address intercommunal relationships in the Community Relations Commission (1969–74), the approach grew out of the strength of informal initiatives at community level, moving from simple contact work in t…
The Brooke Initiative
Peter Brooke was appointed British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in July 1989. After preliminary meetings with, and overtures to, the political parties, he launched in January 1990 a concerted effort to bring about negotiations between the Ulster Unionist, Democratic Unionist, Social Democratic and Labour, and Alliance Parties 9 on a devolved system of government with an Irish dimension. The process quickly came to be known as the ‘Broo…
A Model of Complementarity in Conflict Management
This chapter aims to relate the information gathered from the foregoing discussion of Northern Ireland practice (Chapters 5–7) to the theoretical debate from Chapter 4 on a model of complementarity in conflict management. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Complementarity in Conflict Management Theory
Throughout the theoretical literature on conflict management, a dichotomy is apparent. Almost every scholar, in reviewing thinking on the subject, describes a bipolar differentiation in approaches, both in descriptive and prescriptive thinking. The distinctions, and their labels, differ of course from writer to writer, but a general acceptance of two different strands of thought is recurrent. These keywords were added by machine and not by the au…
The Northern Ireland Conflict
My aim here is not to make yet another contribution to the already swollen numbers of academic analyses of Northern Ireland. Nor do I claim that what follows is in any way a comprehensive review of the conflict there. I wish merely to sketch an overview of those elements of the conflict which are most pertinent to the argument I want to develop in later chapters. There are many excellent analyses already in existence, and I will simply enlist the…
Conflict Management Practice
In distinction to the structural approach to conflict management, whose workings in Northern Ireland were reviewed in Chapter 2, it is also possible to identify the development of a cultural approach during the same period. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
School-Site Finance and Urban Education Equity
Peacemaking Strategies in Northern Ireland
How can scholars develop better co-operation between competing theoretical approaches to conflict management? This study analyses real peacemaking strategies in Northern Ireland from 1969 to the prese
From Whitewash to Mayhem
Kevin Boyle remarked to the Opsahl Commission in 1993 that, around the dinner tables of England, Northern Ireland is not considered a polite topic for conversation. He spoke as one of the large number of people recently referred to in an Irish Sunday paper as Northern Irish Professional People Living in England, or ‘nipples’. Few of them would disagree. His tone was one of resignation. His point was that, when mainland political or social problem…
Towards Complementarity in Conflict Management
This article argues the case for a model of conflict management based on a complementary view of two approaches to conflict, resolution and settlement, which have traditionally been presented in the literature as opposed. It employs empirical evidence of complementarity in practice to highlight the failure of this dichotomized theoretical debate. It endorses a theoretical model based on complementarity which both unblocks the paralysis caused by …
Peacemaking Strategies in Northern Ireland
How can scholars develop better co-operation between competing theoretical approaches to conflict management? This study analyses real peacemaking strategies in Northern Ireland from 1969 to the prese
Political Dialogue in Northern Ireland
In 1991 the politicians of Northern Ireland sat down at the formal negotiating table for the first time in seventeen years. This book tells the fascinating story of the Initiative's three years of pai
Towards Complementarity in Conflict Management
This article argues the case for a model of conflict management based on a complementary view of two approaches to conflict, resolution and settlement, which have traditionally been presented in the literature as opposed. It employs empirical evidence of complementarity in practice to highlight the failure of this dichotomized theoretical debate. It endorses a theoretical model based on complementarity which both unblocks the paralysis caused by …
Towards Complementarity in Conflict Management
This article argues the case for a model of conflict management based on a complementary view of two approaches to conflict, resolution and settlement, which have traditionally been presented in the literature as opposed. It employs empirical evidence of complementarity in practice to highlight the failure of this dichotomized theoretical debate. It endorses a theoretical model based on complementarity which both unblocks the paralysis caused by …
From Whitewash to Mayhem
Kevin Boyle remarked to the Opsahl Commission in 1993 that, around the dinner tables of England, Northern Ireland is not considered a polite topic for conversation. He spoke as one of the large number of people recently referred to in an Irish Sunday paper as Northern Irish Professional People Living in England, or ‘nipples’. Few of them would disagree. His tone was one of resignation. His point was that, when mainland political or social problem…
Concluding Remarks
In the Introduction, I referred to the pressing need, in the post-Cold War context, to broaden the definitions and approaches of conflict management beyond the old power-based strategies of containment in order to take account of those more subjective, but no less potent, factors clustering around issues of identity and communal security. This study has in part tried to demonstrate that to ignore, or to under-represent, the perceptual layers whic…
Conflict Management Practice
In the Introduction, I referred to peacemaking initiatives in Northern Ireland since 1968, both at the political and the community level. The processes involved at the two levels can be differentiated into structural and cultural processes respectively (Ruane and Todd, 1990).
Complementarity in Practice
Complementarity between the two practical approaches in Northern Ireland is more than merely a hypothesis advanced in an academic study. The review in Chapters 2 and 3 of the history of these approaches may give the impression of two largely discrete processes in independent operation, which Chapter 5’s analysis of the Brooke Initiative in the main does little to contradict. Chapter 6’s examination of recent development trends in community relati…
The Community Relations Council
In Chapter 3, I traced the development of cultural initiatives from the late 1960s to the late 1980s, noting the gradual development of a coherent approach and a constituency of practitioners. After the failure of the flawed structural attempt to address intercommunal relationships in the Community Relations Commission (1969–74), the approach grew out of the strength of informal initiatives at community level, moving from simple contact work in t…
The Brooke Initiative
Peter Brooke was appointed British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland in July 1989. After preliminary meetings with, and overtures to, the political parties, he launched in January 1990 a concerted effort to bring about negotiations between the Ulster Unionist, Democratic Unionist, Social Democratic and Labour, and Alliance Parties 9 on a devolved system of government with an Irish dimension. The process quickly came to be known as the ‘Broo…
A Model of Complementarity in Conflict Management
This chapter aims to relate the information gathered from the foregoing discussion of Northern Ireland practice (Chapters 5–7) to the theoretical debate from Chapter 4 on a model of complementarity in conflict management. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Complementarity in Conflict Management Theory
Throughout the theoretical literature on conflict management, a dichotomy is apparent. Almost every scholar, in reviewing thinking on the subject, describes a bipolar differentiation in approaches, both in descriptive and prescriptive thinking. The distinctions, and their labels, differ of course from writer to writer, but a general acceptance of two different strands of thought is recurrent. These keywords were added by machine and not by the au…
The Northern Ireland Conflict
My aim here is not to make yet another contribution to the already swollen numbers of academic analyses of Northern Ireland. Nor do I claim that what follows is in any way a comprehensive review of the conflict there. I wish merely to sketch an overview of those elements of the conflict which are most pertinent to the argument I want to develop in later chapters. There are many excellent analyses already in existence, and I will simply enlist the…
Conflict Management Practice
In distinction to the structural approach to conflict management, whose workings in Northern Ireland were reviewed in Chapter 2, it is also possible to identify the development of a cultural approach during the same period. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
School-Site Finance and Urban Education Equity
Peacemaking Strategies in Northern Ireland
How can scholars develop better co-operation between competing theoretical approaches to conflict management? This study analyses real peacemaking strategies in Northern Ireland from 1969 to the prese
Political Dialogue in Northern Ireland
In 1991 the politicians of Northern Ireland sat down at the formal negotiating table for the first time in seventeen years. This book tells the fascinating story of the Initiative's three years of pai
Developing Dialogue in Northern Ireland
This is the first published study of the political negotiations in Ireland in 1992. Based on interviews with many of the participants and on unprecedented access to the confidential talks documents, i
Developing Dialogue in Northern Ireland
Preface Dramatis Personae Introduction The Best Job in British Politics Musical Chairs An Air of Optimism Strand One-and-a-Half Tension on Demand Happiness Abounds Yes! We're Going to Crack This! The Riddle of the Strands Just a Step Along the Way Stockpiling Obstacles Appendix 1: Possible Outline Framework Appendix 2: The Ninian Stephen Document Bibliography Index
Political science (15 works) · Irish and British Studies (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Conflict management (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Complementarity (molecular biology) (4 works) · Economics (4 works)