[midhir]

Being from Ireland I suspect they work best when accompanied by a process to get people an alternative to, and path out of, violence.

It took a lot of goes before one stuck here. I have memories growing up of a ceasefire every other day, broken the next.

Each ceasefire elicits some sort of confidence issue within the movement and towards their adversaries so that when they fail they often do so catastrophically (Canary Wharf etc).

But it only takes one to stick...

[hga]

I've recently read an explanation for the end of that conflict that makes the most sense of any I've read, not that I consider myself to be even minimally informed about it, and it was that the series of anti-material bombings that included Canary Wharf is what forced the U.K. to make a peace work, the massive damages to buildings and other infrastructure were just too much to sustain.