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conflict studies literature, to date, are often inappropriate in the context of
Northern Ireland. It contends that an alternative interpretation of political
leadership during the Northern Ireland peace process is critical to the
development of any future analyses of that process, and also to the development
of the analyses of peace processes more generally. The article then suggests
that political leadership during the Northern Ireland peace process was often
necessarily contradictory in style and substance and argues that such
contradictions and inconsistencies form the basis of the alternative
interpretation that this article seeks ultimately to present. At this point, the
article turns to the introduction of a novel alternative concept, that of
chameleonic leadership, outlining what this concept might mean in both theory
and in practice, in terms of the peace process, and using the concept as a means
of bringing the reader towards a new understanding of political leadership
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