Colin Irwin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4097981 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colin Irwin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colin |
| FAMILY NAME | Irwin |
| SIGNATURE | IRWIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University Belfast |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using Artificial Intelligence for Peacebuilding
The Northern Ireland ‘Peace Polls
Nine surveys of public opinion were conducted in support of the Northern Ireland peace process between April 1996 and February 2003. Critically the questions for eight of these polls were drafted a
A people's peace process for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Public opinion polling has been used in Northern Ireland, Macedonia and Cyprus to develop policies and agreements that have wide popular support. Using the same methods of inter-track public diplomacy, a poll was conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004 to find out what the people there believe needs to be done to achieve reconciliation, economic self-sustainability and effective government in the future. Apart from the controversial topic of …
International negotiation best practice: A reply to Hancock, noel and Kennedy‐pipe
(2003). International negotiation best practice: A reply to Hancock, noel and Kennedy‐pipe. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 3-4, pp. 89-91
Devolution and the state of the Northern Ireland peace process
Implementation of the Belfast Agreement
For those directly involved in the talks the signing of the Belfast Agreement was met with not only feelings of pure joy but also with the physical realities of mental and emotional exhaustion. The people of Northern Ireland had been at war with themselves and their neighbours for a quarter of a century but now there was a very real hope that that tragedy would come to an end. An end to the killing, a pact between old enemies, was it really possi…
The Future of the Stormont Talks
The first poll undertaken with the parties had been published on 7, 8 and 9 of April 1997, a few weeks before the general election of 1 May 1997, with the deliberate intention that the results might stimulate a public debate on the political future of Northern Ireland. It didn't. Although 94 per cent of the people wanted a negotiated settlement the parties remained caught up in questions of procedure. Who would negotiate with whom and under what …
Conclusion
The two governments made real efforts to get the difficult issues of decommissioning, demilitarisation and police reform resolved before the election campaigns got into full swing but negotiations seemed to have entered a state of near paralysis. The peace polls review articles had been written and published in the hope that progress could have been made. But the dynamics of electoral competition and playing the ‘blame game’ combined to make the …
The Mitchell Review
The Hillsborough proposals for a simultaneous act of decommissioning and the devolution of powers to a new inclusive government in Northern Ireland were not acceptable to Republicans because it carried with it an implication of precondition and therefore surrender. It also followed that if Republicans would not accept the deal and decommission, Loyalists would not either. The proposals for a more managed and gradual approach to implementation pro…
The Future of the Peace Process
The Mitchell Review concluded with a carefully choreographed programme of events in which the parties recommitted themselves to the full implementation of the Belfast Agreement, the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD) issued a report detailing how they would now carry out their mandate and the Republicans, as well as Loyalists, undertook to appoint representatives to work with the IICD. In his statement of 18 November 1…
A Comprehensive Settlement
Following the publication of the results of the ‘In Search of a Settlement’ poll the eight parties still in the talks started to negotiate the details of an agreement in earnest. Some parties even requested electronic copies of the statistics so that they would be able to undertake further analysis. All the major elements of a comprehensive settlement, and public attitudes towards them, were now plainly visible for everyone to see. These keywords…
Peace Building and Public Policy
In the deeply divided society of Northern Ireland generations of conflict have created a situation in which all aspects of political, economic, social and cultural life have fallen victim to the ill-effects of discrimination and segregation, distrust, bitterness and violence. Depending largely on an individual’s particular intellectual or practical interests the critical solution to such endemic dysfunction can range the spectrum of these activit…
Polling as Peace Building
Effective peace building requires the re-establishment of all those elements of a society that make it a functioning success. In the first instance an absence of dialogue between the conflicting parties must be replaced with reliable channels of communication that can facilitate an honest discourse on all the issues that lie at the heart of the conflict. Secondly, once the talking has begun in earnest, discussion must lead to real negotiations an…
The Drafting of Consensus and the Decommissioning Story
Perhaps the single most important feature of the polls undertaken in support of the Northern Ireland peace process was the participation of the parties to the Stormont talks in their design and, in particular, their collective agreement to the questions being asked. But this consensus was not arrived at easily. It required the development of both new styles of questions and methods of working with party negotiators through successive drafts that …
In Search of a Settlement
The drafting of the questionnaire for this poll had been nearly a year in the making. Some issues, such as police reform, were meant to have been included in the March/April 1997 poll but were left out for lack of space. All the questions had been worked on through the election period of the spring and the summer break. Even when the talks were in recess the drafting and refining of the various options went ahead with the designated group of part…
The Calculus of Agreement
Public opinion polls are now an accepted part of the modem political process. They are used by political parties, for example, to monitor the fortunes of popular support for themselves, their leader and party policies in general. But the results of these polls are rarely made public, being undertaken to inform and develop party strategy. In the hands of the media similar polls are undertaken to create news stories. These polls are designed to sha…
Political Negotiations and Public Opinion Polls
Eight surveys of public opinion were conducted in support of the Northern Ireland peace process between April 1996 and May 2000. Critically the questions for seven of these polls were drafted and agreed with the cooperation of party negotiators to enhance the peace process by increasing party inclusiveness, developing issues and language, testing party policies, helping to set deadlines and increase the overall transparency of negotiations throug…
After the Elections
All the articles produced for the Belfast Telegraph were now rewritten in a more academic style and published with my colleagues on the ‘Peace Building and Public Policy’ project, Tom Hadden and Fred Boal. Tom had an interest in the local current affairs magazine Fortnight . So, with a grant from Rowntree, we were able to include a free booklet with the December issue developing a theme of Tom’s ‘Separation or Sharing’. These keywords were added …
Making dreams come true
Peace, stability and elections: An opinion poll and its implications
(2002). Peace, stability and elections: An opinion poll and its implications. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 62-74
The People’s Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Many important lessons have come out of the negotiations for the Belfast Agreement. This book explains how public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. Significantly, it was the politicians who decided the questions so that they could map out areas of compromise and common ground that their supporters would accept. This book explains how the work was done so that others can apply the benefits of this experience…
How public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process 1
2001). How public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 62-73
The People's Peace Process
The People’s Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Many important lessons have come out of the negotiations for the Belfast Agreement. This book explains how public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. Significantly, it was the politicians who decided the questions so that they could map out areas of compromise and common ground that their supporters would accept. This book explains how the work was done so that others can apply the benefits of this experience…
The Northern Ireland ‘Peace Polls
Nine surveys of public opinion were conducted in support of the Northern Ireland peace process between April 1996 and February 2003. Critically the questions for eight of these polls were drafted a
Devolution and the state of the Northern Ireland peace process
How public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process 1
2001). How public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 62-73
Using Artificial Intelligence for Peacebuilding
A people's peace process for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Public opinion polling has been used in Northern Ireland, Macedonia and Cyprus to develop policies and agreements that have wide popular support. Using the same methods of inter-track public diplomacy, a poll was conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004 to find out what the people there believe needs to be done to achieve reconciliation, economic self-sustainability and effective government in the future. Apart from the controversial topic of …
Peace, stability and elections: An opinion poll and its implications
(2002). Peace, stability and elections: An opinion poll and its implications. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 62-74
The People's Peace Process
International negotiation best practice: A reply to Hancock, noel and Kennedy‐pipe
(2003). International negotiation best practice: A reply to Hancock, noel and Kennedy‐pipe. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 3-4, pp. 89-91
Making dreams come true
The People's Peace Process
How public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process 1
2001). How public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 62-73
Implementation of the Belfast Agreement
For those directly involved in the talks the signing of the Belfast Agreement was met with not only feelings of pure joy but also with the physical realities of mental and emotional exhaustion. The people of Northern Ireland had been at war with themselves and their neighbours for a quarter of a century but now there was a very real hope that that tragedy would come to an end. An end to the killing, a pact between old enemies, was it really possi…
The Future of the Stormont Talks
The first poll undertaken with the parties had been published on 7, 8 and 9 of April 1997, a few weeks before the general election of 1 May 1997, with the deliberate intention that the results might stimulate a public debate on the political future of Northern Ireland. It didn't. Although 94 per cent of the people wanted a negotiated settlement the parties remained caught up in questions of procedure. Who would negotiate with whom and under what …
Conclusion
The two governments made real efforts to get the difficult issues of decommissioning, demilitarisation and police reform resolved before the election campaigns got into full swing but negotiations seemed to have entered a state of near paralysis. The peace polls review articles had been written and published in the hope that progress could have been made. But the dynamics of electoral competition and playing the ‘blame game’ combined to make the …
The Mitchell Review
The Hillsborough proposals for a simultaneous act of decommissioning and the devolution of powers to a new inclusive government in Northern Ireland were not acceptable to Republicans because it carried with it an implication of precondition and therefore surrender. It also followed that if Republicans would not accept the deal and decommission, Loyalists would not either. The proposals for a more managed and gradual approach to implementation pro…
The Future of the Peace Process
The Mitchell Review concluded with a carefully choreographed programme of events in which the parties recommitted themselves to the full implementation of the Belfast Agreement, the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD) issued a report detailing how they would now carry out their mandate and the Republicans, as well as Loyalists, undertook to appoint representatives to work with the IICD. In his statement of 18 November 1…
A Comprehensive Settlement
Following the publication of the results of the ‘In Search of a Settlement’ poll the eight parties still in the talks started to negotiate the details of an agreement in earnest. Some parties even requested electronic copies of the statistics so that they would be able to undertake further analysis. All the major elements of a comprehensive settlement, and public attitudes towards them, were now plainly visible for everyone to see. These keywords…
Peace Building and Public Policy
In the deeply divided society of Northern Ireland generations of conflict have created a situation in which all aspects of political, economic, social and cultural life have fallen victim to the ill-effects of discrimination and segregation, distrust, bitterness and violence. Depending largely on an individual’s particular intellectual or practical interests the critical solution to such endemic dysfunction can range the spectrum of these activit…
Polling as Peace Building
Effective peace building requires the re-establishment of all those elements of a society that make it a functioning success. In the first instance an absence of dialogue between the conflicting parties must be replaced with reliable channels of communication that can facilitate an honest discourse on all the issues that lie at the heart of the conflict. Secondly, once the talking has begun in earnest, discussion must lead to real negotiations an…
The Drafting of Consensus and the Decommissioning Story
Perhaps the single most important feature of the polls undertaken in support of the Northern Ireland peace process was the participation of the parties to the Stormont talks in their design and, in particular, their collective agreement to the questions being asked. But this consensus was not arrived at easily. It required the development of both new styles of questions and methods of working with party negotiators through successive drafts that …
In Search of a Settlement
The drafting of the questionnaire for this poll had been nearly a year in the making. Some issues, such as police reform, were meant to have been included in the March/April 1997 poll but were left out for lack of space. All the questions had been worked on through the election period of the spring and the summer break. Even when the talks were in recess the drafting and refining of the various options went ahead with the designated group of part…
The Calculus of Agreement
Public opinion polls are now an accepted part of the modem political process. They are used by political parties, for example, to monitor the fortunes of popular support for themselves, their leader and party policies in general. But the results of these polls are rarely made public, being undertaken to inform and develop party strategy. In the hands of the media similar polls are undertaken to create news stories. These polls are designed to sha…
Political Negotiations and Public Opinion Polls
Eight surveys of public opinion were conducted in support of the Northern Ireland peace process between April 1996 and May 2000. Critically the questions for seven of these polls were drafted and agreed with the cooperation of party negotiators to enhance the peace process by increasing party inclusiveness, developing issues and language, testing party policies, helping to set deadlines and increase the overall transparency of negotiations throug…
After the Elections
All the articles produced for the Belfast Telegraph were now rewritten in a more academic style and published with my colleagues on the ‘Peace Building and Public Policy’ project, Tom Hadden and Fred Boal. Tom had an interest in the local current affairs magazine Fortnight . So, with a grant from Rowntree, we were able to include a free booklet with the December issue developing a theme of Tom’s ‘Separation or Sharing’. These keywords were added …
Making dreams come true
Peace, stability and elections: An opinion poll and its implications
(2002). Peace, stability and elections: An opinion poll and its implications. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 62-74
The People’s Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Many important lessons have come out of the negotiations for the Belfast Agreement. This book explains how public opinion polls were used in support of the Northern Ireland peace process. Significantly, it was the politicians who decided the questions so that they could map out areas of compromise and common ground that their supporters would accept. This book explains how the work was done so that others can apply the benefits of this experience…
International negotiation best practice: A reply to Hancock, noel and Kennedy‐pipe
(2003). International negotiation best practice: A reply to Hancock, noel and Kennedy‐pipe. Global Review of Ethnopolitics: Vol. 2, No. 3-4, pp. 89-91
Devolution and the state of the Northern Ireland peace process
A people's peace process for Bosnia and Herzegovina
Public opinion polling has been used in Northern Ireland, Macedonia and Cyprus to develop policies and agreements that have wide popular support. Using the same methods of inter-track public diplomacy, a poll was conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2004 to find out what the people there believe needs to be done to achieve reconciliation, economic self-sustainability and effective government in the future. Apart from the controversial topic of …
The Northern Ireland ‘Peace Polls
Nine surveys of public opinion were conducted in support of the Northern Ireland peace process between April 1996 and February 2003. Critically the questions for eight of these polls were drafted a
Using Artificial Intelligence for Peacebuilding
Political science (22 works) · Law (15 works) · Irish and British Studies (14 works) · Public Administration (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Negotiation (7 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (7 works) · Business (6 works)