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This article offers a comparative analysis of the role played by peace and conflict resolution organisations in Northern Ireland and Turkey in negotiating solutions to ethno-nationalist conflicts in these countries. It argues that P/CROs have been instrumental in deescalating violence and encouraging conflicting parties to resolve conflict peacefully.
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This paper finds that P/CROs provided help shaping and promoting non-violent processes of conflict resolution. The peace groups related to the focus of the research in Northern Ireland have only been analysed by a few sources. Similarly, there are but a handful of pieces of research related to peace organisations in Turkey.8 None of this research underlines the importance of the role of peace groups as conflict resolution organisations.
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This research has sought to explore the influence of P/CROs in peacemaking efforts led by political agents. It has revealed that to understand conflict resolution processes from early peace efforts to a political settlement, it is not sufficient to assess the role of political parties and actors alone.
İ. Aytaç Kadıoğlu
Adiyaman Universitesi
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This page is a summary of: Great effort, little help? Peace and conflict resolution organisations in Northern Ireland and Turkey, Conflict Security and Development, May 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14678802.2018.1469253.
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