- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to Revised Edition
- Introduction
- Achieving Transformational Change<sup>1</sup>
- The Resolution of Armed Conflict: Internationalization and its Lessons, Particularly in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa<sup>1</sup>
- The Secrets of the Oslo Channels: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans<sup>1</sup>
- The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
- ‘Give Us Another Macbride Campaign’:<sup>1</sup> An Irish-American Contribution to Peaceful Change in Northern Ireland
- Towards Peace in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Neither Orange March nor Irish Jig: Finding Compromise in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Mountain-climbing Irish-style: The Hidden Challenges of the Peace Process
- The Good Friday Agreement: A Vision for a New Order in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Hillsborough to Belfast: Is It the Final Lap?<sup>1</sup>
- Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New Nationalism and Post-republicanism<sup>1</sup>
- Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation
- Keeping Going: Beyond Good Friday
- Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Getting to Know the ‘Other’: Inter-church Groups and Peace-building in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Enduring Problems: The Belfast Agreement and a Disagreed Belfast
- Appendix 1 The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973)
- Appendix 2 The Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) Agreement (November 1985)
- Appendix 3 The Opsahl Commission (June 1993)<sup>1</sup>
- Appendix 4 the Downing Street Joint Declaration (December 1993)
- Appendix 5 The Framework Document (1995)
- Appendix 6 The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement (April 1998)
- Appendix 7 The Report of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission (Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, 1998)
- Appendix 8 The Patten Report (1999)
- Appendix 9 Review of the Parades Commission (Sir George Quigley, 2002)
- Index
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Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa1
Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa1
- Chapter:
- (p.44) Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa1
- Source:
- The Long Road to Peace in Northern Ireland
- Author(s):
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter presents an account of how the peace process got under way in South Africa. Trust was not part of the initial formula. Rather adversaries negotiated because they perceived their conflict to be unresolvable by any other means; they arrived at ‘a commonly perceived sense of deadlock’. The chapter traces the steps by which opposing groups arrive at a middling democratic solution. It cautions against the assumption that there is a magic formula to peacemaking, but highlights three factors: internal recognition of the lack of moral legitimacy of one's cause; the extraordinary qualities of the leadership — in the case of South Africa, most notably that of Nelson Mandela; and the importance of external forces, in this case the rapprochement between the United States and Russia and the ending of the Cold War.
Keywords: peace process, South Africa, moral legitimacy, leadership, Nelson Mandela, external forces, United States, Russia
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- Introduction to Revised Edition
- Introduction
- Achieving Transformational Change<sup>1</sup>
- The Resolution of Armed Conflict: Internationalization and its Lessons, Particularly in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Some Reflections on Successful Negotiation in South Africa<sup>1</sup>
- The Secrets of the Oslo Channels: Lessons from Norwegian Peace Facilitation in the Middle East, Central America and the Balkans<sup>1</sup>
- The Awakening: Irish-America's Key Role in the Irish Peace Process
- ‘Give Us Another Macbride Campaign’:<sup>1</sup> An Irish-American Contribution to Peaceful Change in Northern Ireland
- Towards Peace in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Neither Orange March nor Irish Jig: Finding Compromise in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Mountain-climbing Irish-style: The Hidden Challenges of the Peace Process
- The Good Friday Agreement: A Vision for a New Order in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Hillsborough to Belfast: Is It the Final Lap?<sup>1</sup>
- Defining Republicanism: Shifting Discourses of New Nationalism and Post-republicanism<sup>1</sup>
- Conflict, Memory and Reconciliation
- Keeping Going: Beyond Good Friday
- Religion and Identity in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Getting to Know the ‘Other’: Inter-church Groups and Peace-building in Northern Ireland<sup>1</sup>
- Enduring Problems: The Belfast Agreement and a Disagreed Belfast
- Appendix 1 The Sunningdale Agreement (December 1973)
- Appendix 2 The Anglo-Irish (Hillsborough) Agreement (November 1985)
- Appendix 3 The Opsahl Commission (June 1993)<sup>1</sup>
- Appendix 4 the Downing Street Joint Declaration (December 1993)
- Appendix 5 The Framework Document (1995)
- Appendix 6 The Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement (April 1998)
- Appendix 7 The Report of the Northern Ireland Victims Commission (Sir Kenneth Bloomfield, 1998)
- Appendix 8 The Patten Report (1999)
- Appendix 9 Review of the Parades Commission (Sir George Quigley, 2002)
- Index
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