In recent weeks, community division and violence have re-erupted in Belfast and across Northern Ireland.* These flareups are a result of several factors including legacies of conflict, rising tensions over post-Brexit trade rules, and worsening relations between the parties in the power-sharing Belfast government. Loyalist paramilitary groups have even announced to the British and Irish governments they are withdrawing support for the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement in protest of Northern Ireland’s Irish Sea trade border with the rest of the UK.
Join the Mershon Center and Moritz College of Law's Divided Community Project for a lunchtime conversation with Dr. Duncan Morrow as he analyzes the convergence of dynamics generating turbulence on the island. He will also share his perspective on constructive ways forward, and how lessons learned in Northern Ireland might be relevant here in the United States.
*References to recent news articles regarding Northern Ireland riots: BBC, Belfast Telegraph, The Guardian.
