Policing Northern Ireland

Policing Northern Ireland
Author: Aogan Mulcahy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1134019955

This book provides an account and analysis of policing in Northern Ireland, following the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) from the start of 'the troubles' in the 1960s up to 1999. It focuses on three key aspects of the police legitimation process: reform measures which are implemented to redress a legitimacy crisis; representational strategies which are invoked to offer positive images of policing; and public responses to these various strategies. The book also makes a powerful contribution to wider current debates about police legitimacy, police-community relations, community resistance, and conflict resolution.

Policing for Peace in Northern Ireland

Policing for Peace in Northern Ireland
Author: J. Murphy
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2013-04-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137319453

This is the first in-depth analysis of the transition from the RUC to the PSNI seen through the eyes of key figures, inside and outside the organization. It provides a fresh insight into the wider social and political context in which this change occurred and is a significant contribution to the story of the Northern Ireland peace process.

Policing Under Fire

Policing Under Fire
Author: Ronald Weitzer
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1995-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780791422489

This is a study of the conditions present in an ethnically divided society that affect police-community relations.

Policing Northern Ireland

Policing Northern Ireland
Author: John McGarry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 172
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Police reform, one of the most hotly debated issues in Northern Ireland, is at the heart of the Good Friday Agreement. This timely and dispassionate book examines the status quo and puts forward reasoned proposals to help create representative, impartial, decentralised, demilitarised and democratically accountable policing services - proposals which respect the identities and ideas of unionists, nationalists and others.

After the Peace

After the Peace
Author: Carolyn Gallaher
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801474262

The 1998 Belfast Agreement promised to release citizens of Northern Ireland from the grip of paramilitarism. However, almost a decade later, Loyalist paramilitaries were still on the battlefield. After the Peace examines the delayed business of Loyalist demilitarization and explains why it included more fits than starts in the decade since formal peace and how Loyalist paramilitary recalcitrance has affected everyday Loyalists. Drawing on interviews with current and former Loyalist paramilitary men, community workers, and government officials, Carolyn Gallaher charts the trenchant divisions that emerged during the run-up to peace and thwart demilitarization today. After the Peace demonstrates that some Loyalist paramilitary men want to rebuild their communities and join the political process. They pledge a break with violence and the criminality that sustained their struggle. Others vow not to surrender and refuse to set aside their guns. These units operate under a Loyalist banner but increasingly resemble criminal fiefdoms. In the wake of this internecine power struggle, demilitarization has all but stalled. Gallaher documents the battle for the heart of Loyalism in varied settings, from the attempt to define Ulster Scots as a language to deadly feuds between UVF, UDA, and LVF contingents. After the Peace brings the story of Loyalist paramilitaries up to date and sheds light on the residual violence that persists in the post-accord era.

Critical Engagement

Critical Engagement
Author: Kevin Hearty
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2017
Genre: History
ISBN: 1786940477

This book is an original case study of how memory has driven and challenged the Irish republican transition from armed conflict to constitutional politics that culminated in the acceptance of policing in the Northern Ireland state.

Transforming the Peace Process in Northern Ireland

Transforming the Peace Process in Northern Ireland
Author: Aaron Edwards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Focuses on the decade since the signing of the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement in 1998. This book delineates the key stumbling blocks in peace and political processes and examines in detail just how the conversion from terrorism to democratic politics is managed in post-conflict Northern Ireland.

The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace

The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace
Author: Laura McAtackney
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 732
Release: 2023-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000957780

The Routledge Handbook of the Northern Ireland Conflict and Peace is the first multi-authored volume to specifically address the many facets of the 30-year Northern Ireland conflict, colloquially known as the Troubles, and its subsequent peace process. This volume is rooted in opening space to address controversial subjects, answer key questions, and move beyond reductive analysis that reproduces a simplistic two community theses. The temporal span of individual chapters can reach back to the formation of the state of Northern Ireland, with many starting in the late 1960s, to include a range of individuals, collectives, organisations, understandings, and events, at least up to the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement in 1998. This volume has forefronted creative approaches in understanding conflict and allows for analysis and reflection on conflict and peace to continue through to the present day. With an extensive introduction, preface, and 45 individual chapters, this volume represents an ambitious, expansive, interdisciplinary engagement with the North of Ireland through society, conflict, and peace from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, theoretical frameworks, and methodological approaches. While allowing for rich historical explorations of high-level politics rooted in state documents and archives, this volume also allows for the intermingling of different sources that highlight the role of personal papers, memory, space, materials, and experience in understanding the complexities of both Northern Ireland as a people, place, and political entity.

The Crowned Harp

The Crowned Harp
Author: Graham Ellison
Publisher: Pluto Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2000-05-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780745313931

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