Appendix 3: The Oral History Archive Storytelling and oral history initiatives have long since been acknowledged as an important and distinctive element of peacebuilding and reconciliation. They have assumed added significance in Northern Ireland where a lack of consensus on the causes of conflict and the appropriate mechanisms for dealing Continue Reading
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Appendix 2: Historians and Dealing with the Past: The Background Academic analysis of the past has played a part in conflict resolution in a variety of divided societies. In Northern Ireland itself both the Bloody Sunday Inquiry (1998-2010) and the De Silva Report (2012) appointed historical advisers whose role was Continue Reading
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Appendix 1: Participants in the Hertford Workshop on Historians and the Stormont House Agreement, 19 October 2016 Dr Huw Bennett (University of Cardiff). Huw Bennett is Reader in International Relations at Cardiff, where he specialises in security studies. He formerly taught at Aberystwyth University and King’s College London, at the Continue Reading
Report on a Workshop held at Hertford College, Oxford, 19 October 2016
Introduction This report considers the contribution that historians and social scientists can make to the task of ‘dealing with the past’ in Northern Ireland. Specifically, it examines the role of academics as envisaged in the Stormont House Agreement from the perspective of experienced practitioners of the relevant disciplines. The report Continue Reading