Table of Contents

Introduction: A farewell to arms? Beyond the Good Friday Agreement - Michael Cox, Adrian Guelke, and Fiona Stephen
PART ONE. From ‘Long War’ to long peace
1. Lost lives: Victims and the construction of victimhood’ in Northern Ireland - Marie Smyth
2. The background to the Irish peace process - Martin Mansergh
3. From war to uneasy peace in Northern Ireland - Caroline Kennedy-Pipe
4. Myths of consociationalism: From Good Friday to political impasse - Paul Bew
PART TWO. The politics of the Good Friday Agreement
5. Polarisation or new moderation? Party politics since the Good Friday Agreement - Jon Tonge
6. The 1998 Agreement: Three unionist anxieties - Arthur Aughey
7. The SDLP- governing with uncertainty - Sean Farren
8. Irish republicanism and the peace process: From revolution to reform - Roger MacGinty
9. Noises off: Loyalists after the Agreement - Gordon Gillespie
PART THREE. Agreement at the crossroads
10. A farewell to arms? Decommissioning and the peace process - Colin McInnes
11. New beginnings? Policing and human rights after the conflict - Brice Dickson
12. The totality of relationships? The British / Irish Council - Stephen Hopkins
13.`A ‘most difficult and unpalatable part’ – the release of politically motivated violent offenders - Michael von Tangen Page
14. A truce rather a treaty? The effect of violence on the Irish peace process - John Darby
PART FOUR. Civil Society
15. Segregation, ethno-sectarianism and the ‘new’ Belfast - Peter Shirlow
16. Constitutionalism, civil society and democratic renewal in Northern Ireland - John Morison
17. Two cheers for the NGOs: Building peace from below in Northern Ireland - Feargal Cochrane
18. Integrated schools: Myths, hopes and prospect - Fiona Stephen
19 Whatever happened to the women? Gender and peace in Northern Ireland - Kate Fearon
20 From ‘long war’ to ‘war of the lillies’: ‘Post-conflict’ territorial compromise and the return of cultural politics - Cathal McCall
PART FIVE. Bringing in the international
21 From Anglo-Irish to British-Irish relations - Paul Gillespie
22 Europe and the europeanisation of the Irish Question - Elizabeth Meehan
23 The new American connection: President George W. Bush and Northern Ireland - John Dumbrell
24 Political comparisons: From Johannesburg to Jerusalem - Adrian Guelke
25 Learning from other places: Northern Ireland, the Basque Country and Corsica - Francesco Letamendia and John Loughlin
26 Peace processes in the late twentieth century and beyond a mixed record - Fred Halliday
27. Rethinking the international: A critique - Paul Dixon
28. Rethinking the international: A defence - Michael Cox
Conclusion: Peace after the Good Friday Agreement? - Adrian Guelke, Michael Cox, and Fiona Stephen
Appendices
1. Chronology of Northern Ireland from war to peace
2. The Good Friday Agreement (Belfast Agreement) 10 April 1998
3. ‘Towards A Lasting Peace’, Sinn Fein document, 1992 (extract)
4. Joint Declaration on Peace (Downing Street Declaration), 15 December 1993
5. A personal message from Rt. Hon. Sir Patrick Mayhew, December 1993
6. The TUAS (Tactical Use of Armed Struggle) document circulated by Republican leadership, summer 1994
7. IRA ceasefire statement, 31, August 1994
8. Combined Loyalist Military Command (CLMC) ceasefire statement, 13 October 1994
9. A new framework for agreement 1995
10. The Mitchell principles, January 1996 (extract)
11. IRA ceasefire statement, 19 July 1997
12. ‘Propositions on Heads of Agreement’ issued by British and Irish governments, 12 January 1998
13. The Hillsborough statement, 1 April 1999
14. ‘The Way Forward’ joint statement by British and Irish governments at Stormont, 2 July 1999
15. Statement issued by the IRA, 21 July 1999
16. Statement by Senator George Mitchell concluding the review of the Northern Ireland peace process, 18 November 1999
17. ‘IRA Statement on Arms Inspection’ 26 June 2000.
18. Joint statement by British and Irish governments, 25 June 2004
19. Gerry Adams review of the Good Friday Agreement, 3 February 2004.
20. Speech by David Trimble, 27 March 2004
21. Devolution now: Democratic unionist Party (extracts) 5 February 2004

About the Author

Michael Cox is Professor of International Relations at the LSE Adrian Guelke is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict at The Queen's University of Belfast Fiona Stephen is currently completing a study on the politics of integrated education in Northern Ireland

Reviews

"'... an authoritative, comprehensive and much-needed account of the changing politics of Northern Ireland - an excellent volume.' Richard English, author of Armed struggle: The history of the IRA"