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Mapping Frontiers, Plotting Pathways

Higher Education Authority in the Republic of Ireland and funded through the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation

Professor Hastings Donnan and Centre for International Borders Research

Mapping Frontiers, Plotting Pathways: Routes to North-South Cooperation in a Divided Island was a two-year collaborative project (2004-2006) funded by the Higher Education Authority in the Republic of Ireland through the European Union Programme for Peace and Reconciliation (‘Peace II’). The project consisted of three parts:

 

  • Borders and their consequences: a comparative perspective (including attention to Korea, Vietnam, Germany, Cyprus, Sri Lanka, Tyrol, Alsace-Lorraine, Schleswig)
  • The Irish border as a social divide, focusing on the political and administrative background and interchanges and transactions in the social, economic and cultural fields
  • Pathways for promoting cross-border contact, co-operation and mutual understanding: mapping efforts to promote cross-border co-operation since the 1980s; under arrangements arising from the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement; indicative in-depth studies to probe different forms of cross-border co-operation