Description

This book sees the Good Friday Agreement which was
signed on 10 April 1998 as representing a new
departure for Northern Ireland, encapsulating the
hopes and aspirations of the majority of its
citizens for a more peaceful and promising future.
It provides a trajectory for understanding the
origins and subsequent development for several of
the significant Gordian Knots that have prevented
Catholics and Protestants there from realizing this
preferred future in both a historical and
contemporary perspective. Such a future ought to
consist, according to the Brazilian educator Paulo
Freire, in the realization of freedom, in the
guaranteed right of each culture to move in mutual
respect, each one freely running the risk of being
different. His writings helped to informed the
ideas expressed in this book, particularly his
understanding of true education as that
which incarnates the permanent search of people
together for their becoming more fully human in the
world in which they exist.