Explaining the Conflict and Settlement in Northern Ireland

(2.5,3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

POL 30110 at UCD; This course looks at the competing explanations of conflict and settlement in Northern Ireland, and uses the Northern Ireland case to throw light on the character of ethno-communal conflict and settlement processes in general. It shows how different paradigmatic approaches explain differently the nature and persistence of conflict, key events, policies, public attitudes, the impact of outside actors and the development of politics since 1998.