Projecting Peace in Apartheid South Africa

Taylor, Rupert; Cock, Jacklyn; Habib, Adam

doi:10.1111/0149-0508.00106

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“…The credit was due to numerous groups in civil society, who rejected the apartheid's state's rei®cation of race and ethnicity, and who worked to promote the idea of a common society in which racial and ethnic dierences were irrelevant. 18 This made possible agreement on a constitutional settlement in which all South Africans are protected as equal individuals and group rights are largely ignored.…”

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Political Settlements in Northern Ireland and South Africa

McGarry

1998

Political Studies

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The article examines comparisons between Northern Ireland's recent peace process and agreement and similar developments in South Africa. On the one hand, the analogy has been used to explain Northern Ireland's conflict and the type of prescription it requires. On the other, it has been employed to suggest ways in which agreement might be achieved in Northern Ireland, or, more recently, why agreement has been reached. These uses of the analogy ignore or downplay crucial contextual differences between the two cases. The most important of these is that while South Africa's conflict took place largely within a single state, Northern Ireland's occurs within a wider British–Irish space. This contextual difference is crucial for understanding the Northern Ireland conflict, the type of institutions required there, and why agreement was reached.

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Section: Many Academics and Political Activists Have Compared The Conmentioning

confidence: 99%