The Director of UNU Institute for Conflict Resolution (UNU/INCORE), Mari Fitzduff, a participant in many of the processes that led to Northern Ireland's power-sharing agreement, has written a book detailing the many strategic developments that led to the historic settlement.

In Beyond Violence: Conflict Resolution Process in Northern Ireland, published by UNU Press, Fitzduff draws on this extensive experience to examine:

• programmes that successfully addressed the issue of inequalities between the Protestant and Catholic communities; 
• work that enabled cultural and political diversity to be more positively addressed, thus significantly decreasing tension; 
• work with the security forces to ensure that their contribution was positive and not counter-productive in the mitigation of violence; 
• work by local communities to alleviate paramilitary violence; and 
• development of many hundreds of dialogue and mediation processes, at all levels of society, which were essential to the building of eventual political agreement. 

The author also examines the training and preparation necessary to increase people’s capacity to undertake conflict resolution work, as well as addressing some of the lessons that have been learned about this kind of work, and how to successfully develop it. Beyond Violence contains valuable, practical insights for those who are struggling to manage and resolve ethnic, religious, political or cultural conflicts in many regions of the world.