Constant crisis/permanent process: Diminished agency and weak structures in the Northern Ireland peace process
Constant crisis/permanent process: Diminished agency and weak structures in the Northern Ireland peace process
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持续的危机/永久进程：北爱尔兰和平进程中的机构减少和结构薄弱
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2003
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Chris Gllligan
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Chris Gllligan
北爱尔兰和平进程一直受到反复出现的危机的困扰。曾有过兴高采烈的时刻，例如1994年爱尔兰共和军(IRA)历史性地宣布停火，但紧随其后的往往是绝望。危机的直接原因多种多样，从阿尔斯特统一党(UUP)内部的分裂到爱尔兰共和军未能退役其武器，每一次危机都伴随着相互指责。例如，爱尔兰共和军的停火在爱尔兰民族主义者的指责下破裂，指责英国政府拖延其建立治理北爱尔兰新框架的承诺。工会主义者坚持认为，停火破裂表明共和党人无意放弃他们的军事战略，因此新芬党应该被永久排除在关于北爱尔兰未来的谈判之外。危机的持续存在表明，我们不应着眼于每一场危机的直接原因，以了解为什么和平进程容易发生危机，相反，我们应该寻找更根本的原因。
The Northern Ireland peace process has been afflicted by recurrent crises. There have been moments of elation, such as the historical declaration of a ceasefire by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1994, but these have often been followed by despair. The proximate causes of the crises have varied, from splits within the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) to the IRA’s failure to decommission its weapons, and each crisis has been accompanied by recriminations. The IRA ceasefire, for example, broke down amidst accusations from Irish nationalists that the British government was stalling on its promises to establish a new framework for governing Northern Ireland. Unionists insisted that the ceasefire breakdown demonstrated that Republicans had no intention of giving up on their military strategy, and consequently Sinn Fein should be permanently excluded from negotiations about Northern Ireland’s future. The persistence of crisis suggests that we should not look to the proximate causes of each crisis for an understanding of why the peace process has been crisis prone, but instead we should seek out more fundamental causes.