This paper takes issue with the conflict management approach now dominant in academic and policy-making discourse in respect to Northern Ireland. Such an approach is exemplified in the report of the Opsahl Commission. The paper presents a different understanding of the origins and dynamics of the conflict, one which points to the necessity of a policy of conflict resolution conceived in emancipatory terms.
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