A Critical Approach to Youth Sector Peacebuilding
Dialogue, Politics, and Power
By Andy Hamilton, Mark Hammond and Eliz McArdle
Published
Apr 17, 2025Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1447373438Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Apr 17, 2025Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1447373421Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Apr 17, 2025Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1447373445Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy Press
A Critical Approach to Youth Sector Peacebuilding
Using Northern Ireland as a compelling case study, this book offers a critique of peacebuilding approaches with young people in contested societies. In the north of Ireland, the spectre of murderous violence is increasingly distant for peace-agreement generations. However, legacies stemming from the 30 years of protracted conflict are ever-present in young people’s segregated lives.
This book presents four distinctive viewpoints that inform contemporary peacebuilding work with young people, revealing divergent purposes and conflicting aspirations. Offering a new model to understand peacebuilding, the authors urge peacebuilding communities around the globe to embrace an increasingly politicising and participative youth peace praxis.
Andy Hamilton is Research Associate at Ulster University.
Mark Hammond is Senior Lecturer in Community Youth Work at Ulster University.
Eliz McArdle is Senior Lecturer in Community Youth Work at Ulster University.
Chapter 1 Introduction: a critical approach to youth sector peacebuilding
Chapter 2 Working with young people in a contested society
Chapter 3 Power and legitimacy: entering the world of the peacebuilder
Chapter 4 Prewrapped peacebuilding
Chapter 5 A peacebuilding typology
Chapter 6 Morphology: an analytical tool for peacebuilding
Chapter 7 Four viewpoints on youth sector peacebuilding
Chapter 8: A new model of youth sector peacebuilding
Chapter 9 Radicalising youth sector peacebuilding
Chapter 10 Peace activism with and by young people
Chapter 11 Conclusion: reclaiming a political practice
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Appendix A
