The Northern Ireland Peace Process and the War against Terrorism: Conflicting Conceptions?

2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Guelke
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
International Terrorism ◽  
International Level ◽  
British Government ◽  
Human Rights Standards

AbstractPreserving Northern Ireland's peace process in the midst of a war against international terrorism has presented the British government with a series of dilemmas at the level of political rhetoric, policy-making and legislation. The peace process demands adherence to human rights standards to provide a foundation for the new political dispensation, while an implication of the necessity for a war against terrorism is that restrictions on liberty are justifiable in the name of security against the backdrop of the existence of an emergency. These conflicting conceptions for addressing political violence at the national and international level are addressed.

International Terrorism and Human Rights

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-33
Author(s):  
Sundaresh MENON
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
September 11 ◽  
International Terrorism ◽  
Positive Relation ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001, a line was crossed in the history of terrorism and political violence—many things we had until then taken for granted were lost. This paper analyzes the relationship between international terrorism and human rights and examines how these two concepts—which some suggest are antithetical—might appropriately be spoken of in the same breath even in the aftermath of those terrible attacks. The overarching thesis is that counter-terror efforts must be approached in a way that endeavours to achieve a positive relation to, and co-existence with, the system of human rights at both international and national levels. In this connection, Singapore's approach to counter-terrorism will be considered, providing food for thought on how far it achieves a balance between security and liberty.

Human Rights and Social Work in Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Obie Clayton ◽  
June Gary Hopps
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Workers ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
First Century ◽  
International Level ◽  
Human Rights Standards ◽  
Rights Issues ◽  
Individual Human

The National Association of Social Workers (NASW) affirms a social worker’s responsibility to social change and social justice on behalf of vulnerable and oppressed peoples (NASW, 2008). Because of this directive around social justice, it is the profession’s responsibility to make connections between individual human rights issues within the broader social, economic, and cultural context that creates conditions where injustice can take place. This article attempts to illustrate how social workers in the twenty-first century must be able to recognize and emphasize human rights in their practice on a local, national, and international level. The article also shows the need for social workers to be the catalyst bringing attention to the need to craft solutions to human rights violations that take into account global human rights standards.

A Human Rights Approach to Conflict Resolution

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-273
Author(s):  
Claudia Fuentes-Julio ◽  
Raslan Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Palestine Liberation Organization ◽  
Oslo Accords ◽  
Human Rights Standards

AbstractHuman rights and conflict resolution have been traditionally perceived as two separate fields, with contradictory principles and conflicting approaches toward achieving peace. This essay aims to understand these two fields in a more integrative way, showing how a human rights perspective can enrich the theory and practice of conflict resolution. It clarifies the main characteristics of a human rights approach to conflict resolution and identifies a set of human rights standards guiding its implementation: a normative legal framework; structural conditions for peace; participation and inclusion; and accountability and redress. The essay also briefly applies a human rights approach to the Colombian peace process and to the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. The conclusion addresses one of the main criticisms of this approach and its principal challenges.

An Audit of Violence after 1966

2019 ◽  
pp. 27-105
Author(s):  
Brendan O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Spatial Variation ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Conflict Graphs ◽  
Comparative Survey ◽  
Victims Of Violence

This chapter provides a systematic and partly comparative survey of the scale of political violence in Northern Ireland 1966–2006, with some additional materials related to the broader costs of the conflict. Graphs and charts depict primary patterns of violence, victims of violence, agents held responsible for violence, the human and economic costs, and disputes over culpabilities and consequences. In specific locales the conflict was deeply intense, in others few suffered—explanations are provided for this spatial variation. Inaccurate accounts of the patterns of violence are corrected. The damage done to UK and Irish democracy and constitutionalism are assessed. The benefits that have accrued since a largely successful peace process came to fruition are also highlighted.

2. The government

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-51
Author(s):  
Marc Mulholland
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Logical Consequence ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
The Political ◽  
British Army ◽  
British Government ◽  
Belfast Agreement ◽  
The Government

‘The government’ discusses the developing Troubles from the British government’s perspective. The British government introduced troops onto the streets of Northern Ireland to deal with the escalating tensions that exploded in August 1969. Britain was anxious to sustain the existence of the Stormont system and feared having to introduce ‘direct rule’ from London. The logical consequence of this was sustaining the political legitimacy of the Unionist government in Northern Ireland. The encounters between the British army and Catholics did much to reinforce nationalist assumptions about British oppression. The increasing violence, subsequent direct rule, the restoration of devolution, the Anglo-Irish Agreement, and the 1990s peace process resulting in the 1998 Belfast Agreement are all discussed.

Cooperation theory and the Northern Ireland peace process

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. White
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Peace Process ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
Policy Choices ◽  
Emergence Of Cooperation ◽  
State Behaviour

The eleventh chapter assesses the utility of cooperation theory to explain the peace process in Northern Ireland. This theory stresses the interconnectedness of leaders’ decision-making and the complexity associated with the emergence of cooperation. This theoretical approach stresses the possibility of actors learning to cooperate with others who have differing or competing interests, thus, emphasizing adaptive rather than rational policy-making. Negotiators representing different states and groups in Northern Ireland came to their decisions and policy choices based on the expected reaction of others. The complexity of this interaction came to be appreciated by the actors themselves. While historically cooperation theory explained state behaviour, the cooperation that led to the signing and implementation of the Agreement required a pattern of coordinated cooperation among numerous actors, including historic rivals.

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