Attitudes towards a Truth Commission for Northern Ireland in Relation to Party Political Affiliation

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ID6074313
AutoresPatricia Lundy (0000-0002-5029-7522), Mark Mcgovern (0000-0001-5890-5425)
Ano2007
Volume22
Fascículo3
Páginas321-338
Data de publicação2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoIrish Political Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0790-7184 • E-ISSN: 1743-9078
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07907180701527169
OpenAlexW2141000204
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas7

In Northern Ireland there has been a long‐term and often heated debate, particularly within civil society, about how to address the legacy of the conflict and unresolved issues of the past. This paper critically examines the first large‐scale survey to focus specifically and in depth upon the question of a possible truth commission for Northern Ireland. The paper analyses responses in relation to self‐declared support for Northern Ireland's five main political parties (Ulster Unionist Party, Democratic Unionist Party, Alliance Party, Social Democratic and Labour Party and Sinn Fein). The results of the survey reveal a mixed picture on attitudes towards a possible truth commission but suggest that despite obvious, sometimes serious, community and party political differences on a number of important issues, there are also clearly grounds on which consensus exists

Alliance · Civil society · Commission · Democracy · Ethnology · Northern ireland · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Sociology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Irish and British Studies · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Law · Public Administration