Doing peace: the role of ex-political prisoners in violence prevention initiatives in Northern Ireland

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dc.contributor.authorJoyce, Carmel
dc.contributor.authorLynch, Orla
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Commission
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-18T11:56:21Z
dc.date.available2018-07-18T11:56:21Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.description.abstractWhile a considerable amount of research has been conducted on community-based initiatives aimed at preventing violence, including the role of the ex-political prisoner community in preventative and counterterrorism work, little is known about how the ex-prisoners themselves manage their identity transition between the role they occupied during the conflict and their current role in violence prevention. We argue that it is important to consider the perspective of ex-prisoners who are both architects of their own process of desistance from political violence, as well active leaders of bespoke desistance programs. While many researchers have recognized the utility of the role of ex-prisoners in violence prevention work, theoretically, the way in which ex-prisoners do violence prevention through their use of language and intergroup contact and other resources, is poorly understood. Ultimately, the aim of the article is twofold: to understand the resources (discursive or otherwise) that the community of ex-political prisoners use in their preventative work and (2) to understand how this community understand their role in desistance programs in the context of their personal involvement in violent conflict, including the ways in which participants manage their identity transition.en
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Commission (HOME/2012/ISEC/AG/RAD)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationJoyce, C. and Lynch, O. (2017) 'Doing peace: the role of ex-political prisoners in violence prevention initiatives in Northern Ireland', Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 40(12), pp. 1072-1090. doi: 10.1080/1057610X.2016.1253990en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/1057610X.2016.1253990
dc.identifier.endpage1090
dc.identifier.issn1057-610X
dc.identifier.issued12
dc.identifier.journaltitleStudies in Conflict and Terrorismen
dc.identifier.startpage1072
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/6478
dc.identifier.volume40
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Incen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2016.1253990
dc.rights© 2017, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.0/
dc.subjectCommunityen
dc.subjectIdentitiesen
dc.subjectTerrorismen
dc.subjectConflicten
dc.subjectModelen
dc.subjectUKen
dc.titleDoing peace: the role of ex-political prisoners in violence prevention initiatives in Northern Irelanden
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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