Plying Nostrums or Exporting Peace Models? An Examination of the Contradictions Between the Northern Irish Peace Process and International Peacebuilding

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ID12805877
AuthorsJ Nagle (0000-0001-8836-9942, University of East London, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume7
Issue2
Pages160-183
Publication date2011-05-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueDemocracy and Security (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1555-5860 • E-ISSN: 1741-9166
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17419166.2011.572785
OpenAlexW1976211026
LanguageEN
Citations received5

The proclaimed success of the Northern Ireland peace process (NPP) has made it a model for other divided regions. Simultaneously, debate has arisen over the exact merits of the peace process and whether it can really be seen as a triumph of intercommunal accommodation. In this article I analyze what lessons the NPP may provide for modes of international peacebuilding based on the triadic structure of democratization, neoliberalism, and civil society development. I argue that the NPP should be seen as anomalous or an outlier to the common discourse of international peacebuilding as defined by the liberal peace

Civil society · Democracy · Democratization · Irish · Peacebuilding · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Irish and British Studies · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Philosophy

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