
The SDLP, Politics and Peace
The Mark Durkan Interviews
Graham Spencer(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Published on 10. December 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-1-80079-940-0 (ISBN)
Description
«Compelling, informative, essential»
(Senator George Mitchell)
«Durkan was Hume's closest and most influential intellectual and political collaborator in an epic endeavour that culminated in the GFA. His witness is exhilarating, profoundly insightful and refreshingly witty.»
(Michael Lillis, diplomatic advisor to Garret FitzGerald and Irish government negotiator of the Anglo-Irish Agreement)
«Once again, Graham Spencer shows his mastery of the interview technique in The SDLP, Politics and Peace: The Mark Durkan Interviews where he draws on Durkan's photographic recall of the peace process to throw new light on what we thought were settled accounts.»
(Professor Padraig O'Malley, John Joseph Moakley Distinguished Professor of Peace and Reconciliation, John W. McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston)
Mark Durkan was a central figure in the Northern Ireland peace process. This book of interviews with Durkan details his role with the SDLP and the negotiations that led to the Good Friday Agreement, as well as the problems that came to bedevil power-sharing after and why. A comprehensive inside account of the struggle to end conflict in Northern Ireland these interviews provide invaluable testimony about the steps taken to bring about peace by an individual at the centre of that tortuous process.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
421 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80079-940-0 (9781800799400)
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
12/2024
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
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E-Book
12/2024
1st Edition
Peter Lang Verlag
€21.49
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Person
Graham Spencer is Emeritus Professor of Social and Political Conflict at the University of Portsmouth. He has written extensively on the Northern Ireland peace process and interviewed a wide cross-section of political and social players involved in that process.
Content
Contents: Foundations - John Hume and the American dimension - Contacts and dialogues - Talks, negotiations and agreement - Sharing power after agreement - Decommissioning and the British and Irish governments - Unionists - A future for Ireland North and South.