What it took to end a 30-year conflict in Northern Ireland

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This is a CBC podcast. When history, emotion, and politics feed into violent conflict, the road to peace can seem impossible. Yet the impossible has at times been achieved. Some of the most unyielding and bloody disputes in recent world history have reached a negotiated end. How do peace agreements come about?

Do they simply end bloodshed? or actually establish the conditions for a lasting peace? These were the questions on the table during a week of events that Ideas recorded at Ontario's annual Stratford Festival. Welcome to Ideas and to our series Inventing Peace. I'm Nala Ayed.

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