Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, comparative research, and over 110 hours of face-to-face interviews with a diverse range of political, academic, civil society, and community actors across Northern Ireland, A Troubled Sleep: Risk and resilience in Contemporary Norther Ireland revisits one fo the world's most deeply divided societies to analyze Northern Ireland's current vulnerabilities, and points of resilience, as an allegedly "post-conflict" society. With a forward by Senator George Mitchell, A Troubled Sleep presents deep insight into what happens when identity politics prevail over democracy, when a paralysis in governance leads to a political vacuum for extremist voices to exploit, when de facto social segregation becomes normalized, when acclimatization to violence becomes a generational legacy, and when questions of who we are become secondary to who we are not.
Join us on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 12:00-1:30 p.m. EST (5:00-6:30 p.m. Northern Ireland/Ireland/UK)
