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- Title
Are National Conflicts Reconcilable? Discourse Theory and Political Accommodation in Northern Ireland.
- Authors
O'Neill, Shane
- Abstract
The article focuses on the dispute regarding constitutional status of Northern Ireland resulting in identity conflicts in the region. According to the author, one of the major divisions in recent theory has concerned the possibility of resolving conflicts of identity through the public use of reason. This is just the latest round in the seemingly interminable clash of rationalist and relativist on politics. One reason why the national conflict in Northern Ireland has been so difficult to resolve is because it cannot be thought of simply as a demand for the equal status of a national minority within one particular state. The constitutional status of the territory is itself at stake and this raises the issue of legitimate boundaries and claims to sovereignty. It also puts in question the appropriate institutional relationship between fellow nationals in neighboring jurisdictions. The demands of constitutional justice in Northern Ireland could not be met were we to achieve equality based on an ideal of assimilation.
- Subjects
NORTHERN Ireland; NORTHERN Ireland politics &; government; SOCIAL problems; CONFLICT of interests; MINORITIES; ETHNIC groups
- Publication
Constellations: An International Journal of Critical & Democratic Theory, 2003, Vol 10, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
1351-0487
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1467-8675.00314