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The International Fund for Ireland and the European Union Peace I Fund : building the peace dividend in Northern Ireland -- The Northern Ireland conflict : analysis and resolution -- Economic development and assistance in peace building : the transformation of post-conflict ethnopolitical conflict -- Economic assistance and people's perceptions of economic development and community capacity building -- Economic assistance and people's perceptions of community empowerment and capacity building -- Economic assistance and people's perceptions of reconciliation and cross-community relationships -- Conclusions: Building peace in Northern Ireland

"This book examines the role of local peacebuilders in Northern Ireland and some of the challenges they face. The work explores the perspective and experiences of local peacebuilders in Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland about their analysis and critique of liberal peacebuilding, their hopes, and concerns, and how they are aligned with external funders. It features interviews with a plethora of civil society organization workers, funding agency community development officers, and civil servants adjudicating the International Fund for Ireland and the European Union PEACE III fund, which highlight the participants' local wisdom, practices, and values regarding creating sustainable livelihoods, peacebuilding insights, receiving recognition for their work, dissonance with internal and external actors, conflict transformation efforts, and engagement with partners and allies. The rich empirical qualitative exploratory case study, situated in post-peace accord Northern Ireland and the border counties of the Republic of Ireland, speaks to the respondents' ideas about the creation, delivery, and efficacy of peacebuilding-funded initiatives as well as their hopes and dreams for the future. In exploring this central argument, the work offers an overarching structure in which to analyze the theory and praxis of conflict and peacebuilding in Northern Ireland. More generally, it offers an important contribution to our understanding of local peacebuilders, and how economic assistance impacts on a divided society. This book will be of much interest to students of peacebuilding, conflict resolution, sociology, and British and Irish politics"--

1. Economic assistance : building the peace in Northern Ireland -- 2. Economic inequality, civil rights, and working-class politics in Northern Ireland -- 3. International economic assistance and the economy of Northern Ireland -- 4. The role of the International Fund for Ireland and the European Union Peace II Fund in promoting peace and reducing violence in Northern Ireland -- 5. Images of bureaucratic challenges -- 6. Images of peacebuilding and reconciliation -- 7. Images of economic development and community capacity building -- 8. Economic assistance and the Northern Ireland conflict.

Psychological & cognitive schemas when making decisions within the problem-solving process influence participant behavior. Cognitive psychology models are applied to Fisher & Ury's method of principled negotiation. The potential benefits of cognitive psychology as a means of understanding the cognitive schemata of problem solving participants are discussed in this article. 1 Table, 63 References. Adapted from the source document.

A number of consociational power-sharing initiatives are compared to explore some of the reasons why the elite conflict regulation model has not settled the Northern Ireland conflict. In the period 1972-85, four attempts by the British government to formulate and implement a power-sharing government within Northern Ireland failed as a result of the recalcitrance of one or other of the mainstream political parties. The 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement (AIA) ended the Unionist veto and included the Irish government in the political process to find a solution. Since 1985, four efforts by both governments to establish a devolved power-sharing government have included previously marginalized political groups in the political process. In this article, I argue that since the 1985 AIA the bilateral external ethnoguarantors - the British and Irish governments - have contained the conflict by using a coercive consociational approach to elite conflict management. Since 1985, four efforts to promote contact between Unionists and Nationalists at all levels and all points show promise in reframing the conflict from resources and interests to identity needs. Such a transformational approach is necessary to open up thinking about conflict and in constructing a multimodal, multilevel contingency approach to peace-building and conflict settlement in Northern Ireland.