Stray Bullets

• Political Miasma and 'Proxy' Sectarianism in Northern Ireland

  A somewhat disjointed episode, unplanned and unscripted. Nevertheless, I felt necessary, as such, to get me back into producing an episode following a sharp dip along my mental road. Anyway, in this episode I talk about some of our politicians jetting off to Israel, the Palestinian flag at Belfast City Hall, the film Black '47, victimhood as agency, cognitive dissonance and extreme sensibilities among a myriad of other things!In the next episode I will, finally, conclude my look at victims, collective memory and forgiveness in our post-conflict society.        Click here if you’d like to send me a comment or question. Thank you.Support the showMédecins Sans Frontières Unicef

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• Subtle Alchemies III: The Trenches Dug Within Our Hearts

  In this episode I look at the construction of victimology in the context of Bloody Sunday as well as that of 'Soldier F'. Also, I consider Organisational Memory, Myth-Making, Blamelessness and Out Group / In Group dynamics. Cohen, S., States of Denial: Knowing About Atrocities and Suffering, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2001Eveleigh, R., Peace-Keeping in a Democratic Society. The Lessons of Northern Ireland, C. Hurst and Company, London, 1978Halbwachs, M., On Collective Memory, University of Chicago Press, 1992Lundy, P. and McGovern M., The Politics of Memory in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland, Peace Review 13, 2001Morrissey, M. and Smyth, M., Northern Ireland after the Good Friday Agreement: Victims, Grievance and Blame, Pluto Press, London, 2002Sykes, G. M. and Matza, D., Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency, American Sociological Review 22, 1957  Click here if you’d like to send me a comment or question. Thank you.Support the showMédecins Sans Frontières Unicef

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• (Audio Trailer for) Subtle Alchemies III: Anger at Heel - Soldier F and Collateral Grief

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• Subtle Alchemies II: Victims, Aren't We All?

  In this episode I move on to discuss the terms 'victim' and 'perpetrator' and that in post-conflict societies these terms are seldom mutually exclusive of one another. Are we much too early, in terms of reconciliation, to even begin to think about determining ideal constructs of both 'victim' and 'perpetrator' in Northern Ireland?Never mind 'Hierarchies of Victims', were there 'Hierarchies of Righteous Violence'?Lots to discuss...       Works cited:Borer, T. A., A Taxonomy of Victims and Perpetrators: Human Rights and Reconciliation in South Africa. Human Rights Quarterly 25, 2003  Brewer, J., Peace Processes: A Sociological Approach, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2010Huyse, L., Victims. In Reconciliation After Violent Conflict: A Handbook, Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, Stockholm, 2003Moon C., Narrating Political Reconciliation: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Lexington Books, Plymouth, 2008 The Four of Us: Mary (The Four of Us were part of the soundtrack to my Border career.) Click here if you’d like to send me a comment or question. Thank you.Support the showMédecins Sans Frontières Unicef

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• Flaying the Flag and Destroying Intelligence: An Aside

  An brief interlude before I get to Part Two of Subtle Alchemies. Also, please check out the very talented, very brilliant, Emer Maguire who appeared at the Stand Up for Integrated Education Comedy Night at the Ulster Hall.Click here if you’d like to send me a comment or question. Thank you.Support the showMédecins Sans Frontières Unicef

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