| During the whole 20th century, Northern Ireland Question has kept troubling every session of Britain Administration. This paper uses the processes of peace and conflict in Northern Ireland as the main clues, discusses the political conflicts interweaved with the religious contradiction in Northern Ireland after 1960s, and the peace process since 1970s, especially the Good Friday Agreement in 1997, which shined a brilliant light on the future of the Northern Ireland Question. Through analyzing the social and historical roots of the Northern Ireland Question, the paper concludes that the overlapping between historical colonial policy of the Britain government in Ireland and the contradiction between Protestants and Catholics results the peace process more difficult. Finally, the paper attempts to predict the future of the peace process in Northern Ireland, and points out that the only way to solve the problem is to reinforce international surveillance on one hand, and make mutual compromise and construct a trust mechanism between the opposite groups in Northern Ireland on the other. |
