By Lee A. Smithey
ISBN-10: 0195395875
ISBN-13: 9780195395877
Smithey focuses fairly on Protestant unionists and loyalists in Northern eire, who retain various levels of dedication to the Protestant religion, the Crown, and and Ulster / British id. He argues that opposed collective identities in ethnopolitical clash can develop into much less polarizing as partisans undertake new clash innovations and technique of expressing identification. hence, the shut dating among collective identification and collective motion is an important component of clash transformation. Smithey heavily examines makes an attempt in Protestant/unionist/loyalist groups and companies to boost extra optimistic technique of expressing collective identification and pursuing political agendas which can aid increase neighborhood kinfolk. Key leaders and activists have all started to reframe shared narratives and identities, making attainable group help for negotiations, demilitarization, and political cooperation, whereas additionally diminishing out-group polarization.
As Smithey indicates, this sort of shift in technique and collective imaginative and prescient is the guts of clash transformation, and the demanding situations and possibilities confronted via grassroots unionists and loyalists in Northern eire can end up instructive for different areas of intractable conflict.
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