Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Impact of Religious Sectarianism, Trauma of Conflict and using the Good Friday Agreement as a Template for International Relations Negotiations: Discussion
1:35 pm
Frank Feighan (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I will add to that and perhaps put the cat among the pigeons. We understand everyone is trying to deal with victimisation, trauma and psychological effects. What happened in Bosnia was outlined. How is it moving on? While not undermining the scars on the island of Ireland, the scars in Bosnia were much deeper. Did we sometimes have an acceptable level of violence which became normalised in society despite the major issues which resulted? Former combatants were imprisoned and many people's lives were deeply affected. There were sectarian murders. How did countries deal with the psychological turmoil of the First and the Second World Wars? For example, were people in Germany able to move on or are there still fissures?
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