Doctoral Dissertation Research: Beyond Sectarianism? Violence After Peace Accords in Belfast, Northern Ireland

在简·施耐德博士的监督下，研究生莫莉·赫尔利·杜普雷将研究这样一种可能性，即即使在1998年具有里程碑意义的耶稣受难日和平协议之后，北方爱尔兰贝尔法斯特的旧社区分裂仍将继续，新的社区分裂可能会出现。这项研究将集中在贝尔法斯特的界面，划分领土的边界。 这些分界线可能是物理标记，例如臭名昭著的和平线，它将西贝尔法斯特的新教和天主教社区分开，但它们也可以是更微妙的，无形的边界，通过自己的导航或朋友，亲戚和媒体的故事来学习。 研究人员将采访专业和非专业的边界导航员，包括警察，出租车司机和一个没有内置界面但有许多无形的分界线的社区的居民。 访谈数据将被用来描绘分区，并了解它们对人们日常生活的影响，特别是他们认为安全的旅行路线。 除了采访这些导航员，研究人员还将收集他们的手绘心理或认知地图，认知空间研究的一个有用的技术;并将使用这些地图，让受访者在dissussion的路线，他们通常做或不遵循。 预计该项目不仅将有助于心理地图和认知理论的学术辩论，但也将有显着的影响，贝尔法斯特政策讨论有关接口，讨论，直到最近，只集中在建成的接口墙，在很大程度上忽略了不太明显的边界。 最后，这个项目有可能揭示在其他情况下，尽管战争已经停止，但分裂仍在继续的和平协定后。

Under the supervision of Dr. Jane Schneider, graduate student Molly Hurley Dupret will examine the possibility that even after the landmark 1998 Good Friday peace agreement, old communal divisions in Belfast, Northern Ireland, will continue and new ones may emerge. The research will focus on Belfast's interfaces, boundaries that demarcate territory. These dividing lines may be physical markers, such as the infamous Peace Line that separates Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods in west Belfast, but they can also be more subtlet, invisible boundaries that are learned through one's own navigations or the stories of friends, relatives and the media. The researcher will interview professional and non-professional boundary navigators, including police officers, taxi drivers, and residents of one neighborhood that has no built interfaces but nevertheless has numerous invisible dividing lines. The interview data will be used to delineat divisions and to understand their effects on people's daily lives, particularly the routes that they feel safe traveling. In addition to interviewing these navigators, the researcher will also gather their hand-drawn mental or cognitive maps, a useful technique of cognitive spatial research; and will use these maps to engage respondents in disucssion of routes they commonly do or do not follow. It is anticipated that this project will not only contribute to academic debates about mental maps and cognitive theory, but will also have significant implications for Belfast policy discussions regarding interfaces, discussions that, until recently, solely focused on the built interface walls and largely ignored less obvious boundaries. Finally, this project has the potential to shed light on post-peace agreement in other contexts where division continues despite the cessation of warfare.