Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
This book examines the role played by one important external stakeholder, Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited-life foundation, in helping to build peace and promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is now referred to as a post-conflict
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Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
Colin Knox • Padraic Quirk
Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland
Colin Knox Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan and Ulster University United Kingdom
Padraic Quirk Social Change Initiative Belfast United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-46268-8 ISBN 978-1-137-46269-5 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-46269-5
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PREFACE
Much has been written about the politics of Northern Ireland and its struggle to move beyond the violence with which it was synonymous for over 30 years. To all intents and purposes, for the international community the Northern Ireland ‘problem’ has been solved. With a power-sharing devolved government in place, old enmities have faded and the prospect of a shared future seems entirely realistic. In fact, Northern Ireland has yet to move from what Galtung would describe as ‘negative’ peace to ‘structural positive peace’ because some of the enduring inequalities which precipitated the conflict have yet to be resolved. Northern Ireland is still a highly segregated society with, for example, only 6 % of its school children attending integrated schools. While there has been a small decrease in residential segregation, more than one-third of local government wards are still single identity in their composition (i.e. those with 80 % + of one religion). Much remains to be done therefore to address these structural deficiencies and emb
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