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Impossible Peace 2: Much more than an archive
This project, under its heading Impossible Peace, is intended to do more than log detail and analysis. It is about taking all of that information into a wide conversation to discuss moments of history and learning and the different perspectives.
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Impossible Peace 2: An everyday kind of miracle
The afterword to the project archive by Declan Lawn - the screenwriter and director behind BBC's "Blue Lights".
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Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?
The peacebuilding project took leadership - where are the leaders today?
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Impossible Peace 2: The missing legacy voices
Brian Rowan reflects on the voices and stories of those no longer with us.
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Impossible Peace 2: The murders at Massereene
March 7th 2009: another murder scene painted onto the canvas of an imperfect, troubled, tortuous peace.
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Impossible Peace 2: Bullets in their socks
Brian Rowan reflects on trying to make the pieces of the peace process narratives fit together.
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Impossible Peace 2: The bunker in the peace
New steps and ideas after 2006: "How do you build new policing on that battlefield?"
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Impossible Peace 2: On a wing and a prayer
"The job is done. It can't be done twice." What were the doubts and narratives around IRA decommissioning?
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Impossible Peace 2: "The taigs are getting everything"
Tense conversations. Lists of grievances. A day of rage.
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Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
A seismic shift. A rapid sequence of events. What were the sentiments around the decision to demilitarise?
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Impossible Peace 2: Tea for two
The old receipt takes me back twenty years to a Saturday morning - July 23rd 2005. I was in one of those meetings of words and silences; sitting with Richard McAuley a senior aide to then Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams.
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Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
This publication builds on our previous work -‘Impossible Peace’. Our focus now is the period 2005/10, and what happened after the IRA decision to end its armed campaign at 4pm on Thursday, July 28th 2005.