@article{Schubotz_2005, title={Beyond the Orange and the Green. The Diversification of the Qualitative Social Research Landscape in Northern Ireland}, volume={6}, url={https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/11}, DOI={10.17169/fqs-6.3.11}, abstractNote={The Northern Ireland conflict has been described as one of the most over-researched conflicts in the world. However, this is a relatively recent development. For many years, when the conflict was most intense, social scientists in North­ern Ireland were silent and not vocal. The sectarian violence that dominated the life in Northern Ireland as well as the fact that the country was a funda­mentally unjust society con­tributed to this silence. However, since the peace process began in the mid 1990s, a growing num­ber of qualitative studies have been published, utilising one-to-one inter­views and focus group discussions, in order to "make people’s voices heard" and deal with the con­se­quences of the so-called "Troubles". This paper looks into the emerg­ence of a qualitative social research landscape in Northern Ireland beyond the conflict and explores issues so far neglected. It is argued that a number of factors have con­trib­uted to this, among them the availability of research funding to voluntary and community sector organ­isations that use their data to influence policy-making and equality legislation in a country which is still deeply divided along socio-religious lines. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0503293}, number={3}, journal={Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research}, author={Schubotz, Dirk}, year={2005}, month={Sep.} }