1st Edition
Human Rights and the Northern Ireland Conflict Law, Politics and Conflict, 1921-2014
By Omar Grech
Copyright 2017
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
292 Pages
by
Routledge
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This interdisciplinary book explores the Northern Ireland conflict through a human rights framework. The book examines the conflict from the creation of the Northern Ireland state in 1921 to 2014. This timeframe allows an analysis of how human rights impacted upon the conflict in its broadest understanding (i.e. the pre-violent conflict, the violent conflict and the post-violent conflict... Read more
1. Introduction
2. Human rights: key notions
3. Human rights in Northern Ireland 1921-1964: Developments, Issues and Perceptions
4. The Impact of the Civil Rights Movement on Human Rights in Northern Ireland5. Rights, Violence and Negotiations
6. Peace and human rights: the long thaw
7. Human rights in Northern Ireland 1999-2014: an unfulfilled agenda?
8. Conclusion
Biography
Omar Grech is a lecturer at the University of Malta, and has a PhD in politics from the University of Limerick, Ireland.
