When Law Falls Short: Informal Justice Initiatives in West Belfast, Northern Ireland

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Main Author:	Weiant, Lydia
Language:	English
Published:	Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK 2016
Subjects:	Alternative Dispute Resolution Cultural Anthropology Law Legal Studies Restorative Justice Informal Justice Northern Ireland Anthropology Ethnography Policing Authority Crime Transitional Justice
Online Access:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1461266200

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spelling	ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ouhonors14612662002021-08-03T06:35:59Z When Law Falls Short: Informal Justice Initiatives in West Belfast, Northern Ireland Weiant, Lydia Alternative Dispute Resolution Cultural Anthropology Law Legal Studies Restorative Justice Informal Justice Northern Ireland Anthropology Ethnography Policing Authority Crime Transitional Justice This study investigates the current state of informal justice initiatives in West Belfast communities in Northern Ireland. After emerging from thirty years of internal armed conflict between politically and ideologically divided groups, Northern Ireland has grappled with restoring peace and promoting reconciliation through institutional reform, the demilitarization of armed factions, cross-community projects, and capacity building initiatives. As the peace process has unfolded, critical conversations concerning the need for non-violent and non-discriminatory crime control have been taking place. These conversations addressed vital concerns such as the needs for police reform, an end to paramilitary punishment, and a means of bridging the gap between local and state-led crime control models. As a result, new modes of conflict resolution have been adopted and legitimized in the seventeen years since the peace agreement. This research project employs ethnographic methods including interviews, participant observation, and document analysis collected throughout nine weeks of fieldwork in Belfast to assess how conflicting notions of justice, crime, and authority contribute to the continuing role of such local justice initiatives. This project uses the literature on transitional justice, legal pluralism, and alternative sources of authority to inform an ethnographic study of informal justice initiatives in Belfast, as it analyzes the manner in which local actors claim or are given authority over crime, conflict, and crisis as they work to provide access to justice outside the parameters of the formal legal system. 2016-05-11 English text Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1461266200 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1461266200 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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topic	Alternative Dispute Resolution Cultural Anthropology Law Legal Studies Restorative Justice Informal Justice Northern Ireland Anthropology Ethnography Policing Authority Crime Transitional Justice
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title	When Law Falls Short: Informal Justice Initiatives in West Belfast, Northern Ireland
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When Law Falls Short: Informal Justice Initiatives in West Belfast, Northern Ireland

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