| ID | 121897 |
| Title Proper | What we talk about when we talk about peace |
| Other Title Information | a rejoinder to McEvoy and Shirlow |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Edwards, Aaron ; MCGrattan, Cillian |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Kieran McEvoy and Peter Shirlow's response to our article is emblematic of the very tendencies towards the creation of problematic conceptualisations of peace that we had set out to critique. 1 Our article sought to problematise the over-confidence of claims that everything was "settled" and that we must thank terrorists and ex-terrorists for their magnanimous gift of having led us out of the very situation they led us into in the first place, as if peace was a privilege and not a right. We characterised the tendency to overinflate the role of paramilitaries in fostering peace as equivalent to the promotion of what we termed "terroristic narratives"-namely, stories that elided notions of "peace" with terrorists' own self-justifications. We suggested that the political effect of this was to defer recognition of the nationalising impulse behind terrorist campaigns in Northern Ireland-an impulse that remains in the post-hoc appraisals by terrorists of their actions. We suggested that the failure to tackle this could be deleterious for the stated objectives of both the British and Irish governments to cultivate a shared society in Northern Ireland. |
| `In' analytical Note | Terrorism and Political Violence Vol. 25, No.3; Jul-Aug 2013: p.351-354 |
| Journal Source | Terrorism and Political Violence Vol. 25, No.3; Jul-Aug 2013: p.351-354 |
| Key Words | Northern Ireland ; Terrorist Campaigns ; Peace ; Terrorist ; Ireland |