Studies of Northern Ireland's ex-combatants ignore religion, while advocates of religious interventions in transitional justice exaggerate its influence. Using interview data with ex-combatants, this book explores religious influences upon violence and peace, and develops a model for evaluating the role of religion in transitional justice.

Auteur
JOHN BREWER is Professor of Post Conflict Studies at Queen's University, Belfast and former President of the British Sociological Association. He is elected to four learned societies and has an honorary degree from the Brunel University for services to social science. His latest book is The Public Value of Social Science.
DAVID MITCHELL is Research Associate, School of Communication, University of Ulster at Jordanstown and former Research Assistant in the School of Sociology, University of Aberdeen. He completed his Doctorate at the University of Ulster, Magee College, where he was tutor and Associate of INCORE (Centre for International Conflict Research).
GERARD LEAVEY is Professor and Director of the Bamford Centre for Mental Health and Wellbeing at the University of Ulster, UK. He has undertaken extensive research in mental health services and has a long-standing interest in help-seeking, inequalities, religion and ethnicity.

Contenu
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Religion and the Northern Ireland Conflict The Personal Faith of Ex-combatants Religion and Motivations for Violence Religion and Prison Ex-combatants and the Churches Perspectives on the Past: Religion in the Personal and the Political Conclusion Religion and Transitional Justice in Northern Ireland Bibliography