Spoiling the Peace?
Subtitle: The Threat of Dissident Republicans to Peace in Northern Ireland
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780719095726
Subjects: Northern ireland, politics and government; Republicanism; Terrorists; Peace
Description: This work assesses the security threat and political challenges offered by dissident Irish republicanism to the Northern Irish peace process. The 1998 Good Friday Agreement failed to end entirely armed republicanism. The movement of Sinn Féin into constitutional politics in a government of Northern Ireland and the eschewing of militarism that followed, including disbandment of the Provisional IRA (PIRA), the decommissioning of weapons and the supporting of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) proved too much for a minority of republicans.