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Introduction:
Mari Fitzduff, the former Executive Director of Irish conflict resolution organization INCORE, and now a professor and the Director of the MA Conflict and Coexistence Programme at Brandeis University, talks about
the development of legislation that can help to institutionalize peace
mechanisms in Northern Ireland.
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This rough transcript provides a text alternative to audio. We apologize for occasional errors and unintelligible sections (which are marked with ???).
National Peace Policies
Mari Fitzduff
Professor and Director of the MA Conflict and Coexistence Programme at Brandeis
University
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We've now introduced as part of the Good Friday agreement that's now in our
legislation, not just equality legislation, which means no Catholic, Protestant,
Hindu, or Muslim can feel that the processes discriminate against them. Also a
new legislation which is called "good relations legislation," which
means that every public body has got to look at every one of its programs to see
whether or not it's going to improve good relations or divide people. For
instance, is the local sports center going to have a problem in terms of
dividing people? If you're putting a new economic development, a new shopping
center, is it going to serve one community and not the other?
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