ABSTRACT
Tim Chapman: 0000–0001–8630–6411
The chapter reflects on how discourses of (in)security can and have produced exclusionary mechanisms which have damaged both the ideals and practices of (social) justice and the social fabric through the enforcement of sentiments of fear rather than solidarity and hospitality. The chapter inquires into whether this security response has become too dominant and whether it weakens or excludes responses to conflicts in intercultural contexts based upon the values of justice and inclusion. Northern Ireland is used as an example to ask whether the underlying drivers of a conflict are sustained by managing it through a politics based upon the fear of the other and through security measures. This leads to a discussion of what justice and inclusion might mean and of what might be a supplementary restorative response (given that there must always be some degree of coercive security) based upon these values, using case studies from the ALTERNATIVE research project in Northern Ireland.
