Peace interventions can promote violence, whilst conflict may be a crucial means for constraining and preventing it. This book explores these statements, re-thinking the relationships between peace, conflict and violence. From this perspective it reinterprets several phenomena that challenge the 'peace process' in Northern Ireland.

Autorentext
AUDRA MITCHELL Lecturer in International Relations at the University of York, UK. Her work on conflict, violence, security, peace and the ethics of international intervention has been published in Review of International Studies, Millennium Journal of International Studies **and International Peace-keeping.

Inhalt
Introduction - Peace-building or World-building? Peace Interventions, Conflict and Violence Violence Against Conflict - Radical Peace, Radical Violence and The Paradox of Conflict Transformation Radical Violence and the Beginning of 'the Troubles' Northern Ireland 1965-72 Radical Peace? the PEACE Programmes and Transformative Peace-building Strategies After 1994 Irresistible Transformation: Radical Violence and the Peace Process From Prison Protest to Peace Process: The Trans-formation of the 'Ex-Combatant' Long Division: Ex-combatants, Transformation and Radical Threat Dangerous Remainders: Long Division and Cycles of Violence in the Northern Ireland 'Peace Process' Conclusions: From Peace-Building to (Plural) World-Building? Implications for Peace and Conflict Studies Bibliography