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
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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