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Interview with Katherine Kennedy by Charles Kennedy for Frontline Diplomacy: the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training on 5 September 2001

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Text interview with Katherine Kennedy, conflict resolution activist, by Charles Kennedy for Frontline Diplomacy: the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training on 5 September 2001. Kennedy worked on conflict resolution with NGOs in both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the 1980s and later in the United States. In this interview she discusses her experiences of the Troubles period and assesses the stability of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland. The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training is an independent, non-profit organisation which promotes knowledge of American international diplomacy. The Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection consists of over 1,700 transcript interviews from those who shape American foreign policy.

Date of Release/Broadcast: 2007

Name of First Interviewee: Katherine Kennedy

Role at time of Interview: Conflict resolution activist

Interviewer: Charles Kennedy

Purpose: Research

Media: Transcript

Copyright: © Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training

Link: Read the transcript

Programme/Book/Article: Frontline Diplomacy: the Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection of the Association for Diplomatic St

Time Period covered: 1982-1983

Key Individuals: Katherine Kennedy, Bill Arlow, Ian Paisley, Garret Fitzgerald, Margaret Thatcher, Chris Patton, Dick Spring, George Mitchell, Martin McGuinness

Key Words: Religion, hunger strike, Maze, prison, community relations, diaspora, youth, gender, IRA, unemployment, American government, Anglo-Irish Agreement, Belfast Agreement, Good Friday Agreement, education

 

 

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