Study on religious / communal conflicts and consensus democracy model through power-sharing in the Northern Ireland

该项目旨在明确贝尔法斯特协议中和平进程和权力分享结构的背景，并研究贝尔法斯特协议后北爱尔兰的社会变化。这是本项目的一个目的，并提供在世界政治冲突中建立和平的可能性，并为此制定一种方法和标准。在这个项目中，首先，通过研究单一可转让投票的选举模式和主要政党的政治行为模式——阿尔斯特统一党、民主统一党、阿尔斯特民主党、英国统一党、北爱尔兰议会采用的权力分享模式的背景和贝尔法斯特协议的方向，可以发现通过北爱尔兰权力分享模式的局限性。社会民主党和工党，新芬党。其次，这个项目明确了爱尔兰天主教徒和新教徒之间宗教/社区冲突的起源。关于1998年贝尔法斯特协议的危机，似乎北爱尔兰新教徒和天主教徒之间的社区冲突在地理上将北爱尔兰分为新教/统一党人民区域和天主教/民族主义人民区域两部分。为了完成这个项目，在贝尔法斯特西部、贝尔法斯特北部地区、阿马地区和德里地区举行，与当地一些非政府组织一起参加实地调查，采访了当地政党成员、当地天主教会神职人员、天主教和新教人士。该项目是通过在北爱尔兰天主教和新教社区定期进行的实地调查确定的。

This project seeks to make clear context of the peace process and structure of power-sharing in the Belfast agreement and to research social change after the Belfast agreement in Northern Ireland. It is a purpose of this project and to offer possibility of peace-making in political conflicts of the world and to develop a method and criterion for it. In this project, firstly, it was possible to find out limitation of consensus democracy model through power-sharing in the Northern Ireland a direction of the Belfast agreement and context of a model of power-sharing adopted in Northern Ireland Assembly through researching a electoral model of the single transferable vote and a pattern of political behaviour of major parties -Ulster Unionist Party, Democratic Unionist Party, Ulster Democratic Party, United Kingdom Unionist Party, Social Democrats and Labour Party, Sinn Fein.Secondly, this project made clear a origin of religious/communal conflicts between Catholics and Protestants in Ireland. On the crisis of the 1998 Belfast Agreement, it is seemed that communal conflicts between Protestant people and Catholic people in Northern Ireland geographically divided Northern Ireland into two parts between Protestant/Unionist people's area and Catholic/Nationalist people's area.For completing this project, it was held in Belfast west, north regions of Belfast, Armagh area and Derry area to join fieldwork together some local NGO and to interview member of local political parties, clergy of local Catholic Church, Catholic and Protestant people. This project is established by fieldwork that is held regularly in Catholic and Protestant communities of Northern Ireland.