The conflict in Northern Ireland is in many ways a paradox. The region has adequate resources and, although it has been a rather marginal area of the British Isles, is nonetheless quite affluent compared to most of the rest of the world. The people are invariably described as friendly and hospitable and to outsiders they seem to form a homogeneous community. The United Kingdom, of which Northern Ireland is a part, is a functioning democracy …
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…present day-perspective, the future development in Northern Ireland is seen in a more optimistic way than the one in the Basque Country. Bibliography http://ibs.lgu.ac.uk/forum/politx.htm http://www.contrast.org/mirrors/ehj/html/truce989.html http://ibs.lgu.ac.uk/forum/newtimes.htm http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/basque.html http://www.cpradr.org/t2pracNorthIreland.htm http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/ls_vergleich/Forschung/ecprtext.rtf