Comparative analysis reveals valuable lessons from Northern Ireland's peace process for Korea, suggesting applicability.
This article proposes peace-making insights for the Korean peninsula from the Northern Ireland peace process. It begins by considering three different approaches to drawing lessons from a peace process case which have been termed analytical–technical, political–strategic, and educative–psychological. It then compares the peace processes across four domains: politics and governance, security, civil society input, and international support. The discussion suggests analytical–technical, political–strategic, and educative–psychological lessons, including how the Irish experience overall, based on gradualism and ‘parity of esteem’, may be valuable as an illustration of a consensual and open-ended approach to peace on the Korean peninsula.
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