Global Change, Civil Society and the Northern Ireland Peace Process

Northern Ireland's Belfast Agreement has faced continual crises of implementation over a variety of security related issues. This book places the implementation of the Belfast Agreement in a wide context to provide an analysis of why implementation has been so difficult.

GLADYS GANIEL Lecturer in Reconciliation Studies, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland ADRIAN GUELKE Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland ELIZABETH MEEHAN Professor Emeritus in the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland MICHAEL POTTER Policy and Research Officer, Training for Women Network, Northern Ireland DAVID RUSSELL Visiting Research Fellow, School of Education, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland DAVID E. SCHMITT Edward W. Brooke Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA RUPERT TAYLOR Associate Professor of Politics, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa ROBIN WILSON Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Constitution Unit, University College, London, UK