http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/northern-ireland-conflict Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:06:15 -0400 Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:06:15 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1441/should-governments-negotiate-with-terrorists By Bohdana Kurylo - In 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin dismissed the possibility of negotiating with leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), claiming that there is no sense in talking to a terrorist organization. Meanwhile, as it later became known, secret negotiations to set conditions for the Oslo Accords agreement with the PLO leaders were, indeed, being conducted.1 A similar case was the maintenance of a secret back-channel between the British government and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1972 and 1990.2 These historical records exhibit that governments broke the taboo of talking... Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:00 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1441/should-governments-negotiate-with-terrorists http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1159/northern-ireland-revisited By Kerry-Anne Clancy - I was prompted to review the situation in Northern Ireland for a number of reasons, not least because my previous article published in this journal now seemed to be a waste of paper in the light of the disappointing end to the IRA cease-fire which consequently affected the ongoing quest for a settlement of the Ireland situation. A settlement which is laden with emotion, characterized most recently by the twenty fifth anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when paratroopers opened fire on a crowd of civil rights demonstrators in Londonderry on January 30 1972. Thirteen unarmed people were killed... Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1159/northern-ireland-revisited