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Political discourse and conflict resolution

Debating peace in Northern Ireland

edited by Katy Hayward, Catherine O'Donnell

Buch

englisch

Hayward, Katy (Ed.) DNB
O'Donnell, Catherine (Ed.) DNB

Routledge studies in peace and conflict resolution

Routledge

London

2011

232 p.

978-0-415-56628-5

conflict resolution
northern ireland
peace process
political discourse

This book offers new insights into the close relationship between political discourse and conflict resolution through citical analysis of the role of discursive change in a peace process. Just as a peace process has many dimensions and stakeholders, so the discourses considered here come from a wide range of sources and actors. The book contains in-depth analyses of official discources used to present the peace process, the discourses of political party leaders engaging (or otherwise) with it, the discourses of community-level activists responding to it, and the discourses of the media and the academy commenting on it. these discourses reflect varying levels of support for the peace process - from obstructing to promotion - and the role of language in moving across this spectrum according to issue and occasion. Common to all our analyses is the conviction

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