>>>>>It's never going to stop.
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>>>>There is peace in Northern Ireland and the Balkans.
>>>
>>>As long as each side fanatically believe they are right it will never end.
>>
>>I'm glad you qualified your statement. :-)
>
>I think the qualification is largely assumed to be understood because if either side believed otherwise, if either side doubted their righteousness, then they wouldn't continue fighting.

>Also, as an addition, I think N.Ireland has peace because the IRA achieved it's objective, by and large, because England is out of Ireland.

Northern Ireland is still part of the UK.

> In respect of the Balkans I think peace happened because of significant third party intervention, or am I mistaken?

Aren't you arguing against your own orginal statement?