Peace, Temporality, and Generations: How Young People Make Sense of Northern Ireland’s Long Peace Process
Abstract
There is relatively little research on long-term peace and the implications for a peace process of generational change. This article advances the sociology of peace by using the lenses of temporality and generations to understand the attitudes of people living within an enduring political transition. The article begins by developing the concept of peace time, meaning subjective perceptions of time and change during a post-conflict period. It then outlines four divergent varieties of peace time identifiable in interviews with 27 young people who were born around the time of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. With reference to Mannheim’s sociology of generations, the article proposes that the varieties of peace time can be understood as interpretations of the interviewees’ generational inheritance of peace. The policy implications for peacebuilding – conceived of as a permanent endeavour – are discussed.
Ingestion failed: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/srv/app/app/worker.py", line 85, in run_once process_job(db, job) File "/srv/app/app/worker.py", line 39, in process_job pdf_path, info = fetch_pdf_temp(candidate["url"]) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ File "/srv/app/app/downloader.py", line 129, in fetch_pdf_temp raise ValueError(f"PDF source returned HTTP {response.status_code}.") ValueError: PDF source returned HTTP 403.
No local PDF is available.
GROBID Extracted text; discontinued.
This text is generated from TEI extraction for accessibility, search, and TTS. Formulas, tables, figures, page layout, and references may not perfectly match the original PDF.
No accessible text representation is available. The text extraction service has been discontinued for the time being. If you require this service, for accessibility or any other reason, please submit an issue/request on this page.
Metadata
Issues
No public issues have been filed for this DOI.
Submit an issue
Record history
| When | Event | Field | Old | New |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-18 19:37:53.011249+00:00 | identifier_assigned | DSEID | DSEID-001-5085419 |