Public Policy, Philanthropy and Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland

by Padraic Quirk and Colin Knox

This book examines the role played by one important external stakeholder, Atlantic Philanthropies, a limited-life foundation, in helping to build peace and promote reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland is now referred to as a post-conflict society largely due to the absence of political violence and relatively stable political institutions. These are necessary but insufficient conditions for what Galtung has described as 'positive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113746268X
• ISBN13: 9781137462688
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.7"