Beyond Intractability: A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict
Introduction:
Mari Fitzduff, the former Executive Director of Irish conflict resolution organization INCORE, and now a professor and the Director of the MA Conflict and Coexistence Programme at Brandeis University, talks about
the development of legislation that can help to institutionalize peace
mechanisms in Northern Ireland.
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National Peace Policies
Mari Fitzduff
Professor and Director of the MA Conflict and Coexistence Programme at Brandeis
University
We've now introduced as part of the Good Friday agreement that's now in our
legislation, not just equality legislation, which means no Catholic, Protestant,
Hindu, or Muslim can feel that the processes discriminate against them. Also a
new legislation which is called "good relations legislation," which
means that every public body has got to look at every one of its programs to see
whether or not it's going to improve good relations or divide people. For
instance, is the local sports center going to have a problem in terms of
dividing people? If you're putting a new economic development, a new shopping
center, is it going to serve one community and not the other?
Many oppressors are also oppressed. Nonviolent confrontation is the only confrontation that allows us to respond realistically to such complexity. -- Jane Meyerding
Featured Links Organizations Making Noteworthy Contributions to Efforts to Promote More Constructive Conflict The Carter Center Resolution Program
Other Resources from Beyond Intractability Taming Intractable Conflicts The trick for the mediator is identifying what conflicts it pays to become involved in, how to go about it, and when. Crocker et al. explore some limitations and pitfalls for mediators and go on to suggest how they may most effectively contribute at different stages of the conflict.
Nobel Peace Prize Winners
Willy Brandt Former Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, and 1971 Nobel Peace Laureate
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