Multiple Temporalities in Violent Conflicts: Northern Ireland, the Basque Country and Macedonia

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Acknowledgements to the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs for funding the Patterns of Conflict Resolution project, 2010-11, and to co-participants, in particular to Lidija Georgieva, Ardit Memeti, Ali Musliu and Pascal Pragnere, and more recently to Roland Gjoni. This is a long version of a paper to be published in a volume edited by L. Bosi. A shorter version will be presented at the conference. 2 We use the term 'ethnic conflict' in a broad sense to mean any intra-state conflict with a social basis in a culturally-differentiated population 3 The Republic of Macedonia is a recently formed independent state with a population of about 2 million. The autonomous community of the Basque County is a self-governing region within Spain, with a population of 2.2 million. Northern Ireland is a devolved region of the United Kingdom with a population of 1.8 million. Security dialogues original scientific article 323.114 (416) 323.114 (460.15) 323.114 (497.7)

The Troubles in Northern Ireland and theories of social movements

“…The Northern Ireland case allows us to explore the social and cultural mechanisms which seem to 'lock in' division even in new contexts (Wright 1996;Ruane 2012). These mechanisms are of significance not just for deeply divided societies but also for the study of social change more generally, and the ways in which continuities are unintentionally reproduced (on institutional change, see Streeck and Thelen 2005; on identity change, see Rumelili and Todd 2017; on conflict, see Ruane and Todd 2015).…”