Internet Research Materials

• Civil Conflict in Northern Ireland
• Israeli-Palestinian Reconciliation
• The Need for Dialogue

Questions for Discussion

• If Tversky and Kahneman are right that “people value losses more than they value potential gains,” what is the best way to achieve reconciliation in the cases where the relative losses that one or both sides in a conflict have experienced are substantial? * In Northern Ireland, how did the peace process depend on the grass roots dialogue? * In your opinion, what could be a possible improvement in the Good Friday Agreement that both parties would accept?

Key Terms

Grassroots dialog

Reconciliation

Protestant unionists      

Catholic nationalists

March of the Orange Order

Royal Ulster Constabulary

Good Friday Agreement