PEACE BUILDING

Peace Building in Northern Ireland

Peace Building in Northern Ireland

Introduction

Peace has been termed as the relationship between people and the society avoiding any state of war. In the scholarly debate, there is a difference between the aforementioned narrow concept of peace, the absence of conflict and a broader concept of peace. The other includes the absence of armed violence, and the lack of ethnic and structural violence. A structural peace would be the concrete utopia of a social life together in harmony and without status struggles. It is widely recognized that organizations of civil society have a crucial role to play in ensuring the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of the activities of the European Union in the field of peace building and conflict prevention (Paris, 2004, 20). This has been demonstrated in different contexts, and this contribution is recognized as an essential element of any strategy for peace building. Cooperation with local non-state communication and consultation is not only useful for better understanding by the Europeans of a specific conflict or potential but also strengthens ownership of the process of consolidating peace field and hence its sustainability. This paper discusses the peacemaking theories and models implemented in Ireland and Sudan to restore the peace across the nations.

Ireland Conflict

Northern Ireland's crash from a stable political situation was caused by the violence and prolonged inter communal conflict, that created a flaw in the society. This was an unexpected event that ended up in a crisis. An apparent movement “British Rights for British Citizens” was quickly turned into a dilemma occurred by the uncontrollable original protestors and Stormont government. The movement worsened between the nationalists and the unionists. With the increasing problems of Northern Ireland, Britain was again struck by the issue that it had tried to avoid for a very long time (Maddava, 1994, 30). Britain had plans to contain the issue by compelling the Stormont government to bring reforms that will meet the demands raised in the civil rights movement. The hardcore loyalists perceived these reforms as the conciliation of republican dominated movement with a resentment of London's interference in the inland affairs of Northern Ireland. However, the republicans perceived the increasing crisis in the country an opportunity to reopen the question of the operation and campaign for the United Ireland (Maddava, 1994, 30).

Peace Building Model

For the re-establishment of peace in Ireland, a crucial aspect was that the two enemies of the republican Sinn Fein and the pro British Democratic unionist party came together and formed a coalition. This development sealed the progress that was made in the Northern Ireland since the 1998 Good Friday agreement.

The Northern Ireland Agreement dated 10 April 1998, also known as the Good Friday Agreement; this agreement was the peace negotiations which led to a victorious end. During negotiations, it was decided that if a majority of Northern Irish agree to the population for further membership of Northern Ireland to Great Britain agree, all parties should agree with the ...