The Multicultural Conflict: The Troubles Or The Northern Ireland Conflict

Introduction This paper studies the multicultural conflict called the Troubles or the Northern Ireland conflict. Historical context will be discussed in order to understand the choices made by those resolving the conflict. The major issues of conflict within the Troubles are discussed consisting of politics and cultural discrimination. The communication methodologies the can attribute to the resolution are laid out in order to understand how the conflict can find a resolution. Furthermore, recommendations for both conflict strategy and for further study are given framework to understand fully the implications of this specific conflict. The Troubles have had implications for the whole country of Ireland and England as well as provide conflict management with …show more content…
The political conflicts are the undertones for the conflict as a whole and, partly, the reason the conflict began. Before the separation of counties in Ireland, the ruling government gave pretty substantial prejudice rule against the Catholics of Ireland. This includes discrimination in everyday life as well as in the workplace, housing troubles, and gerrymandering for the Protestant persuasion (Anderson, 2008). Britain being a majority protestant country preferred (illegally) to have a protestant vote and advantage in Ireland. These prejudices caused anger for those in the southern counties. The dichotomies that separated the country caused the conflict. The Catholics had a pretense that they were inferior and the Protestants though they were superior. Separating the southern catholic counties form the northern protestant counties was a tactic to placate the future nationalists. The nationalists felt having their country divided into two very distinct sections gave a reason for conflict. It was a band aide with no objective to help anyone but the British government and those living in the northern