Gendering Demilitarisation and Justice in Northern Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8123752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fidelma Ashe (0000-0001-8628-6035, Social Policy Research Associates (United States), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 665-680 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Politics and International Relations (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-1481 • E-ISSN: 1467-856X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-856x.12066 |
| OpenAlex | W2137494750 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 26 |
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Exposes how masculinised accounts of conflict transformational processes in Northern Ireland have distorted the historical record of the region's on-going transition from violent conflict. Assesses the theoretical and practical effects of de-gendering the analysis of conflict transformational processes in the region. Provides an empirical study of women's hidden contribution to the reduction of levels of paramilitary violence in ethnically divided, working-class communities in the region. Utilises focus group data to develop a gender-sensitive reading of community justice, security and peace. The 1998 Peace Agreement in Northern Ireland provoked local-level processes of demilitarisation that focused on developing community-based restorative justice practices to replace paramilitary forms of justice. These schemes were viewed as important aspects of the broader process of conflict transformation in the region. The dominant narrative surrounding the development of these new justice forms framed them as an outcome of the efforts of ex-combatant men. This article contests this narrative and examines women's contribution to the development of CBRJ in Northern Ireland. Using data from focus groups, the article exposes the consequences of displacing women in conflict transformational analysis. Additionally, it explores how women's articulation of their conflict transformational practices engenders a critical reframing of key terms in conflict transformational narratives including peace, security, and justice. This exploration reinforces wider feminist claims that any analysis of conflict transformational processes that displaces gender is both conceptually and politically problematic
Cognitive reframing · Conflict transformation · Criminology · Economic Justice · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Public relations · Redress · Sociology · Transformational leadership · Transitional justice · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Walking the walk
Social workers by day and terrorists by night?” Wounded healers, restorative justice, and ex-prisoner reentry
What Difference Does Peace Make? Intimate Partner Violence and Violent Conflict in Northern Ireland
Hug-a-hoods’, ‘Ra Men’ and ‘Touts’
Bridge-builder feminism
Feminism and the Power of Law
Reflections on Sex Equality under Law
Maneuvers
From Paramilitaries to Peacemakers
Beyond white man's justice
Feminist engagement with restorative justice
Gender, conflict, and peace-building
Punishment, policing and praxis
Conflict, Gender, Ethnicity and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Women as Agents of Political Violence
Gender, Nation, Class
Punishment, Poverty and Responsibility
Restorative Justice and the Critique of Informalism in Northern Ireland
And They Think I'm Just a Nice Old Lady' Women and War in Belfast, Northern Ireland
Commemorating dead ‘men
Shattering Silence
Struggling for Peace and Justice
The Virgin Mary Connection
The Limits of Legitimacy
Alternatives to punishment beatings and shootings in a Loyalist community in Belfast
Dirty Protest
The Process of Demilitarization and the Reversibility of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Gendering ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland
Conflicting categories? Women, conflict and identity in Northern Ireland
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |