Author: Jarman, Neil

Source: Anthropology in Action, Volume 13, Numbers 1-2, Spring/Summer 2006 , pp. 11-21(11)

Publisher: Berghahn Journals

Abstract:

Rioting and street disorder have been a recurrent problem in Northern Ireland over the course of the peace process. This article reviews a range of the responses that have been developed to try to address the disorder and to better understand the process of the creation and development of policy. The article starts from interpretation of policy as a process of social relations involving the interaction of different sectors of society and it discusses how government and community actors have responded in different ways to the violence, but over the course of time have come to a broadly shared understanding of the most appropriate means of managing the conflict.

Keywords: COMMUNITY ACTIVITY; POLICING; NORTHERN IRELAND; POLICY; INTERFACE VIOLENCE

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/aia.2006.131204

Publication date: 2006-06-01

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