...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...

... out of the 10 poorest, nine are in Britain, all of them (apart from Cornwall on Britain’s southwest tip) in Dorling’s expanded definition of the “north.” This polarization has happened in tandem with an unprecedented devolution in the United Kingdom, which has given Wales, Northern Ireland, and...

... cians who 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...

... 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 in...

... ternate U.S. representative 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...

... Sinn ernment in Northern Ireland, was signed in Fein. This, in turn, increased Sinn Fein’s le­ April 1998. Shortly thereafter the legislative gitimacy and made the IRA less likely to re­ assembly was elected. But the pro-British turn to violence for political, as opposed to Ulster Unionist Party...

... including women does make a difference. WPJ: Can you think of any peace negotiations in which women played a critical role? SLAUGHTER: In the Northern Ireland negotiations, women made a huge difference. Northern Ireland was where you had a lot of women and mothers involved, and it changed the...

... of torture British-ruled 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...

... Israelis 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...

... WORLD POLICY JOURNAL • WINTER 2000/01 the right to vote, led by the iron-willed Em­ years earlier of Oscar Wilde, resulting in the meline Pankhurst and her formidable daugh­ playwright’s imprisonment. Soon Northern ter Christabel. Unable to get a serious hear­ Ireland was afire with rallies...

... excised. to Sarajevo. 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...

... 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 of...

.... Gilbert and Sullivan, the very model of a modern major general. He is proud of his service in the Falklands War, which he describes as the last of the old-fashioned conflicts. Then came Cyprus, Northern Ireland, and a tour in Kosovo as commander of the Multi-National Brigade. Promoted to the rank of Major...

... toward defusing discontent. Attacking the very core of identity—language, land, religion, 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...

... 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 a peaceable outcome after years of violence. Such hope belies the...

... left, most of them for the United States—a quarter of Ireland’s population gone. The pre-famine population of 8.2 million has never 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...

... struggle for dominion of the same territory. In such cases as Cyprus, Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland, Belgium, and Israel-Palestine, two scorpions vie for mastery of the same bottle. When more communities are involved, there is a palpable incentive for building coalitions, as in Switzerland, Great Britain...

... major crisis could break out. Italy would be “too big to save” by any standard financial assistance program, like the ones granted to Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. The only solution would be massive financing from the ECB, which would not be received well in Germany and other northern European...

...” uncomfortably close to torture used by the to the Iraq war. Europeans know about British Army on Republican 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...