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While no formal criminal tribunal or truth commission has been undertaken to date to address the legacy of past violence in Northern Ireland, a ‘decentralized’ program of transitional justice has emerged in recent years, combining widespread community-based reconciliation initiatives with a more ‘piecemeal’ approach to dealing with the past through discrete measures undertaken by both governmental and non-governmental actors. Drawing on insights from fieldwork conducted in Northern Ireland during the Spring of 2008, this paper provides a qualitative assessment of the contribution that this unique approach to transitional justice has made to ongoing processes of reconciliation between Protestant/Unionist and Catholic/Nationalist communities. More specifically, this paper examines the impact that Northern Ireland’s decentralized approach to transitional justice has had on the promotion of positive intergroup contact, dialogue, truth, justice, and the amelioration of structural inequalities – all of which have been identified as necessary, though perhaps not sufficient, causal conditions for intergroup reconciliation in divided societies. In so doing, this paper considers the potential for such a decentralized approach to engender the critical ‘social learning’ ultimately needed for former enemies to challenge and transform the antagonistic identifications of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ that can otherwise perpetuate intergroup hostility in the post-conflict environment. This paper concludes by considering the implications of these findings for current debates over the design of effective transitional justice processes, and, in particular, what lessons more formalized transitional justice initiatives might learn from the decentralized strategy employed in Northern Ireland. |
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Name: ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE"
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| Aiken, Nevin. "Learning to Live Together: Transitional Justice and Intergroup Reconciliation in Northern Ireland" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE", New York Marriott Marquis, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA, Feb 15, 2009 <Not Available>. 2009-11-04 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p314063_index.html> |
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| Aiken, N. T. , 2009-02-15 "Learning to Live Together: Transitional Justice and Intergroup Reconciliation in Northern Ireland" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISA's 50th ANNUAL CONVENTION "EXPLORING THE PAST, ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE", New York Marriott Marquis, NEW YORK CITY, NY, USA Online <PDF>. 2009-11-04 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p314063_index.html |
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Abstract: While no formal criminal tribunal or truth commission has been undertaken to date to address the legacy of past violence in Northern Ireland, a ‘decentralized’ program of transitional justice has emerged in recent years, combining widespread community-based reconciliation initiatives with a more ‘piecemeal’ approach to dealing with the past through discrete measures undertaken by both governmental and non-governmental actors. Drawing on insights from fieldwork conducted in Northern Ireland during the Spring of 2008, this paper provides a qualitative assessment of the contribution that this unique approach to transitional justice has made to ongoing processes of reconciliation between Protestant/Unionist and Catholic/Nationalist communities. More specifically, this paper examines the impact that Northern Ireland’s decentralized approach to transitional justice has had on the promotion of positive intergroup contact, dialogue, truth, justice, and the amelioration of structural inequalities – all of which have been identified as necessary, though perhaps not sufficient, causal conditions for intergroup reconciliation in divided societies. In so doing, this paper considers the potential for such a decentralized approach to engender the critical ‘social learning’ ultimately needed for former enemies to challenge and transform the antagonistic identifications of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’ that can otherwise perpetuate intergroup hostility in the post-conflict environment. This paper concludes by considering the implications of these findings for current debates over the design of effective transitional justice processes, and, in particular, what lessons more formalized transitional justice initiatives might learn from the decentralized strategy employed in Northern Ireland. |
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| LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER: TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND INTERGROUP RECONCILIATION IN NORTHERN IRELAND Nevin T. Aiken1 I. Introduction Transitional justice interventions – those sets of “practices mechanisms and concerns that arise following a period of conflict civil strife or repression and that are aimed directly at confronting and dealing with past violations of human rights and humanitarian law” – have proliferated in recent decades based at least in part on the assumption that these strategies help societies to reconcile their |
| Peace Institute at the University of Limerick noted in an interview with the author dialogue has been central to these two interrelated reconciliation processes. As he argues “cross-community dialogue and interaction has I think done a great job to lessen points of conflict at a community level in tandem with the political elite process…it’s provided the groundswell of support for the political process that couldn’t have happened without people at that community level…if they were saying we want nothing |
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