...Robin Kirk When the president of Colombia shook hands with the leader of FARC, the longest-running conflict in the Western Hemisphere was over, but ensuring peace after the official end of the fighting is never straightforward. Using examples from Northern Ireland, Argentina, and Chile, author...

... were truly heroic, but it should Northern Ireland owe much to that oft- never be forgotten that the ordinary people scorned ingredient, patient, determined, and of Northern Ireland steadily found their principled diplomacy, which spanned suc­ own way toward reconciliation, defying his­ cessive...

... members of the Irish Republican stand both the nature of the assaults on the Army early in the “Troubles” in Northern United States and the steps we can take Ireland. This measure is being pressed de­ against their perpetrators. The long-term spite its well-proven past ineffectiveness...

..., the caches they did visit represented The inspection dispensation in Northern only a small fraction of the IRA’s entire ar­ Ireland, although now frozen for political senal. Thus, in logistical terms, the inspec­ reasons and of scant value in terms of secu­ tions could have little, if any, effect...

... Ireland negotiations, women made a huge difference. Northern Ireland was where you had a lot of women and mothers involved, and it changed the dynamic quite a bit. There are various African conflicts as well. Secretary Clinton always told one about a local conflict where negotiations weren’t going...

... has happened in tandem with an unprecedented devolution in the United Kingdom, which has given Wales, Northern Ireland, and especially Scotland extensive new powers and parliaments. Of course, this has done little to shake the endemic inequality of, say, Glasgow, where life expectancies in the East...

... to the United Nations, with the rank of ambassador. Her special concerns ranged from Northern Ireland to broad legal and political issues at the United Nations. Angela E. Stent, Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Stud­ ies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service...

... Northern Ireland, terrorist and extended detention. Suspects were de­ groups were able to retain a large degree of tained without arrest warrants, held without cohesion within the prison setting, which being tried, and even denied access to coun­ they discovered to be a favorable environ­ sel...

... and Palestinians also talk, Northern Ireland and the British government talk, and I learned that Gandhi also talked with the British people, and Nelson Mandela, and Martin Luther King. All of them have had dialogue that resolved issues, by and large, peacefully through dialogue. Then I thought, “There are lots...

... . . . and united our people”—as if debasement, re-valuations, and changing consumption habits had not affected the value of the pound over the centuries (and as if retail banks in Scotland and Northern Ireland did not issue their own bills). The idea that money does not have its own complicated past is one...

.... Foreigners like me must be wary of drawing analogies between damaged build­ Memory, Victimization, and Healing ings and damaged psyches. A friend tells me A Catholic leader in Northern Ireland, Hugh how her son, a disciplined jogger in his teen O’Neal, was once asked why...

... time since that violent rule was as much a Conservative legacy as year, that an Opposition had promoted a re­ support was to the Liberals. It was not hard bellion, and for the first time in all history to rouse Northern Ireland’s fiercer Protes­ that a Liberal Government had virtually tant...

...? 9 called regional elections for May 13. The firmly: “It is unimaginable that Spain could Partido Popular could then conceivably lead ever say, as Britain did of Northern Ireland the first non-nationalist coalition govern­ in the Downing Street Declaration, that we ment in the region’s post...

... returned to that level, languishing, according to the April 2011 census, at 4.6 million (plus another 1.8 million in Northern Ireland). Damien Glez Also little surprising today is the nation whose people are least likely to emigrate—Saudi Arabia where just 1 percent of the population wants...

.... A wider reality is illuminated by Kerala’s example. Bipolar tends to be riskier than multipolar. In our own survey of ethnic conflicts, many if not most appear to arise when two distinct communities struggle for dominion of the same territory. In such cases as Cyprus, Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland, Belgium...

..., customs, spirituality, ancestry, heritage—creates particularly potent grievances. Religion emits a primal force, as we have seen see in Northern Ireland, Dagestan, and the Middle East. Linguistic heritage, too, has been central to separatist grievances all over the planet. We have seen it in Bangladesh...

..., Northern Ireland, and a tour in Kosovo as commander of the Multi-National Brigade. Promoted to the rank of Major General, he pitched up in Iraq as commander of British forces. Based in Basra, his units defended one of the diciest fronts of the war. Throughout, he’s studied the changing shape of war...

... in the face of steep obstacles, those in the deep south and their supporters have looked to autonomy deals ranging from Indonesia’s Aceh to Northern Ireland as possible blueprints for self-determination. In repeated surveys cast over the years, residents of the deep south are optimistic about reaching...

... terrorists in bombing. They have experienced it. I do not Northern Ireland. We are now learning myself claim to have been in any great dan­ something of the way British troops be­ ger, but I did have the experience as a child haved in colonial wars, in Cyprus for exam­ of being hurried...