New Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict Book

	List of figures and tables
	Notes on contributors
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	Perceptions of violent events	8
2	Political discourse in a divided society	28
3	Legitimate targets: a control on violence?	46
4	The evolution of the Catholic middle class	65
5	Prejudice and identity in a mixed environment	86
6	The myths of segregation	104
7	The Northern conflict in Southern Irish school textbooks	119
8	Asymmetry in cross-community meetings	142
9	A consociational path to peace in Northern Ireland and South Africa?	161
10	Resolving conflict in bicommunal political systems	175
11	Limits to conflict and accommodation	190