Mythic Rights and Conflict-Related Prisoner “Re-Integration”
Release time: 2019-06-19
Peter Shirlow
Abstract
This article argues that within Northern Ireland the processes of disarmament, demobilisation and re-integration (DDR) remain incomplete. Despite general disarmament and demobilisation and a very significant fall in paramilitary violence, those imprisoned as a consequence of the conflict remain marginalised by vetting laws and other instruments of civic exclusion. This has significant consequences in terms of acknowledging that the conflict has ceased as a violent/military episode. This is due to rhetorical devices and positions that uphold variant readings of the past, especially those that impose a humiliated status upon conflict-related prisoners.
Keywords
Conflict-related prisoners, criminalisation, Good Friday Agreement, peace-building
From: Capital & Class 2019 43 (1)
Editor: Wang Yi