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The two governments made real efforts to get the difficult issues of decommissioning, demilitarisation and police reform resolved before the election campaigns got into full swing but negotiations seemed to have entered a state of near paralysis. The peace polls review articles had been written and published in the hope that progress could have been made. But the dynamics of electoral competition and playing the ‘blame game’ combined to make the political culture of Northern Ireland quite impervious to such advances.
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Irwin, C. (2002). Conclusion. In: The People’s Peace Process in Northern Ireland. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403914323_14
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