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The aim of this chapter is to contextualise by way of background the ghostly shadow of the past through examining political protest, discriminatory prison policy, and how both female and male volunteers in the Irish Republican Army found ways of resisting the brutality of the Crown Forces (see Punch 2012). What this chapter clearly shows is the complexity of the political situation in Northern Ireland and how this has impacted on the lives of female ex-combatants.
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The term ‘Northern Ireland’ is contentious but it will be used in this book interchangeably with the North of Ireland as it is used by both communities and is internationally recognised.
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The use of the term ‘Conflict’ rather than ‘The Troubles’ will be used to refer to the period of armed conflict involving state and non-state groups. The Conflict involved the suspension of normal powers of law enforcement and the due process of the law, and the internment and incarceration of politically affiliated prisoners. Eventual ceasefires and the initiation of the Peace Process led to the 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement and political devolution to the Northern Ireland Assembly. The British and Irish governments established a commitment to democratic and peaceful means of resolving political issues. The term denotes the protracted and symbolic nature of the ‘long war’.
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Wahidin, A. (2016). Introduction. In: Ex-Combatants, Gender and Peace in Northern Ireland. Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-36330-5_1
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