A path to peace or persistence? The “single identity” approach to conflict resolution in Northern Ireland

Church, Cheyanne; Visser, Anna; Johnson, Laurie

doi:10.1002/crq.63

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“…Children who learn a sense of their family's national identity from their parents are better equipped for a transnational world. This reflects findings from educational literature, which suggest that a strong sense of the group's place in the world—a secure base, as it were—is associated with more prosocial engagement with all sections of society (Church, Visser, & Johnson, ). The mechanisms by which including the family in the nation may lead to more positive intergroup attitudes remain to be further explored, for example, a secure family‐national identification may preclude perceptions of threat to social identity in contexts of diversity (Branscombe, Ellemers, Spears, & Doosje, ).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 72%

Parents' and children's understanding of their own and others' national identity: The importance of including the family in the national group

Muldoon

O’Donnell

Minescu

2017

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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We investigate the role of parents and family in driving children's understanding of their own national identity and their attitudes to other national groups in an increasingly diverse nation. Given the ethical and practical difficulties of sourcing children and their parents, we conducted our study with families visiting the National Museum of Ireland where displays about the Irish state's history facilitated the study of banal issues of Irishness and nationality. Our study included 34 families: 76 children and 46 parents. Parents completed self-report measures of national identity continuity, national identity strength, and their family's Irishness. Children completed self-report measures on their family's Irishness, their exploration of national identity, and attitudes to other national groups. National identity continuity and strength drove parents' sense of their family's Irishness. Amongst children, perceiving one's family as Irish, together with higher reported exploration of national identity, impacted on children's attitudes to other national groups. Children with the strongest sense of Irish national identity were most interested in identity exploration and other national practises. We add to the literature findings on the interconnection between parent and child identity and the role of the family in driving interest in national identity and other national groups.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 72%

Parents' and children's understanding of their own and others' national identity: The importance of including the family in the national group

Muldoon

O’Donnell

Minescu

2017

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…Violence in NI has been significantly reduced, but not eradicated, with accompanying changes in patterns of incidents, targets and areas affected (Jarman, 2004). Segregation, on a de facto basis, characterizes much of the social landscape and pervades many of its institutions, including education, sport and housing (Church et al , 2004; Maney, 2005). As far as the latter is concerned, increased segregation has been a significant feature of residential patterns in large towns in NI since the early years of the twentieth century (Poole and Doherty, 1996).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Explanations can take historic, political, economic, theological, sociological or psychological forms. From a psychological perspective, some recent work, drawing on Social Identity Theory (Tajfel and Turner, 1979), Self‐categorization Theory (Turner, 1999) and the Contact Hypothesis (Allport, 1954; Tropp and Pettigrew, 2005) has attempted to not only account for prejudice and outgroup attitudinal negativity through the cognitive and emotional dynamics of group identity, separation and difference, but also point to ways of effecting change (Church et al , 2004; Hewstone, 2003: Hewstone and Cairns, 2001; Paolini et al , 2004).…”

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Sectarianism in the Northern Ireland workplace

Dickson

Hargie

2006

International Journal of Conflict Management

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“…Ideally, agreements should not result in people being policed apart. However, current political strategies (e.g., the disproportionate emphasis on single‐identity work; see Church, Visser, & Johnson, 2004) and the nature of the political system that rewards polarization show few signs of encouraging people to live together or to work together towards mutually beneficial goals, activities that may help to realize the hopes of those that aimed to create overlapping identities between Protestant and Catholic communities.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Rebels' Perspectives of the Legacy of Past Violence and of the Current Peace in Post‐Agreement Northern Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

Burgess

Ferguson

Hollywood

2006

Political Psychology

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Former members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and organizers of peaceful civil rights organizations were interviewed to assess how these individuals interpreted the current social conditions in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland. Contrary to the intercommunity ideals of the Good Friday Agreement, our results suggest that people continue to exist in a society where political power is based on the division of communities, where ordinary people are not motivated to contribute to politics and where everyday life is fundamentally affected by the agreements of strongly opposed politicians. Analysis of transcripts revealed that people lived in a climate that presented violence as inappropriate yet effective. To that end, members of the community were negotiating a period of social psychological conflict and were described as living in a situation of unease rather than peace. Participants warned that conditions appear to be creating tensions that could lead to future violence.

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A path to peace or persistence? The “single identity” approach to conflict resolution in Northern Ireland

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

Parents' and children's understanding of their own and others' national identity: The importance of including the family in the national group

Parents' and children's understanding of their own and others' national identity: The importance of including the family in the national group

Sectarianism in the Northern Ireland workplace

Rebels' Perspectives of the Legacy of Past Violence and of the Current Peace in Post‐Agreement Northern Ireland: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis

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