Conversations in Conflict Studies presents: Terrie Northrup

“Collusion and Intractable Conflict: Understanding the Troubles in Northern Ireland.” Terrie Northrup, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of International Relations and Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. In the 1960s through the 1990s, conflict in Northern Ireland continued with little hope of resolution or conciliation. How can we understand the nature of such "ethnic" or identity conflicts and what makes them resistant to resolution? The theoretical notion of "collusion" provides one way to make sense of this kind of intractable conflict.