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Governing through Crime in Post Conflict Societies: Notes from Belfast

By Jonathan Simor

Reporting to you from Queens University, School of Law in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where I am in the middle of a fascinating two week visit at the kind invitation of the Institute of Criminology and Criminal Justice, where I will deliver the annual lecture tomorrow at 4 pm (it is open to the public so please join us if you can get here by then). Belfast is a beautiful and vibrant city full of young people and wonderfully preserved old buildings. It gets overlooked in comparison to its flashier cousin in the South, Dublin, but has many many charms with very few pretenses and better prices (think Melbourne compared to Sydney, Strasbourg compared to Paris,Manchester compared to London). Yes the wounds of the conflict are still visible and felt, but they share the present with evolving experiments in constructing the future; often visible in the extraordinary collection of murals painted on buildings all over the city which memorialize the conflict and interpret its meaning for the future...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on March 29, 2011 (boomark / email).