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

Bibliographic Data

ID6074313
AuthorsPatricia Lundy (0000-0002-5029-7522), Mark Mcgovern (0000-0001-5890-5425)
Year2007
Volume22
Issue3
Pages321-338
Publication date2007-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIrish Political Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0790-7184 • E-ISSN: 1743-9078
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07907180701527169
OpenAlexW2141000204
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited7

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