Ex-combatants, Religion, And Peace In Northern Ireland: The Role Of Religion In Transitional Justice

Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict Advisory Board: John Braithwaite (Australian National University), Hastings Donnan (Queen’s University Belfast), Brandon Hamber (University of Ulster), Ian McAlister (Australian National University), William Mishler (University of Arizona), Barbara Misztal (University of Leicester), Orla Muldoon (University of Limerick), and Clifford Shearing (University of Cape Town). Titles include: John D. Brewer, David Mitchell, Gerard Leavey EX-COMBATANTS, RELIGION, AND PEACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND The Role of Religion in Transitional Justice Palgrave Studies in Compromise after Conflict Series Standing Order ISBN 978–1–1373–2320–0 Hardback 978–1–1373–2321–7 Paperback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Also by John D. Brewer THE PUBLIC VALUE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES: An Interpretative Essay (forthcoming) RELIGION, CIVIL SOCIETY AND PEACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND (with Gareth Higgins and Francis Teeney) PEACE PROCESSES: A Sociological Approach C. WRIGHT MILLS AND THE ENDING OF VIOLENCE ETHNOGRAPHY (Part of the ‘Understanding Social Research’ series) ANTI-CATHOLICISM IN NORTHERN IRELAND 1600–1998: The Mote and the Beam (with Gareth Higgins) CRIME IN IRELAND 1945–95: Here Be Dragons (with Bill Lockhart and Paula Rodgers) THE POLICE, PUBLIC ORDER AND THE STATE, second edition (with Adrian Guelke, Ian Hume, Edward Moxon-Browne and Rick Wilford) BLACK AND BLUE: Policing in South Africa INSIDE THE RUC: Routine Policing in a Divided Society (with Kathleen Magee) THE ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY: An Oral History THE POLICE, PUBLIC ORDER AND THE STATE (with Adrian Guelke, Ian Hume, Edward Moxon-Browne and Rick Wilford) AFTER SOWETO: An Unfinished Journey MOSLEY’S MEN: The BUF in the West Midlands A–Z OF RESEARCH (co-edited with Robert Miller) RESTRUCTURING SOUTH AFRICA (ed.) CAN SOUTH AFRICA SURVIVE? (ed.) Also by Gerard Leavey IDENTITY AND HEALTH (with D. Kelleher) Ex-Combatants, Religion, and Peace in Northern Ireland The Role of Religion in Transitional Justice John D. Brewer Sixth-Century Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, UK David Mitchell Research Associate, School of Communication, University of Ulster, UK Gerard Leavey Professor and Director of the Bamford Centre for Mental Health, University of Ulster, UK John D. Brewer, David Mitchell, and Gerard Leavey © 2013 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic